If our Legislature didn’t have a border crisis, wildfires, school finance, general state budget issues (like reducing property taxes), water, agriculture, fighting an abusive Executive Branch of the federal government, etc., we might be able to interest a legislator (or 181) to pass a bill removing officiating assignment authority/responsibility from the UIL. The UIL will never voluntarily give up that ‘power,’ because they see it as their only way to control the quality of officiating. So they say. In reality, each coach only wants to control officials to ‘get’ calls to go their way. So, it will take state legislative action (since the UIL is a department of the University of Texas, and UT is a political sub-division of the State of Texas) to change this from outside the UIL. What are the odds?
A large conversation that needs to be had. But, what legislator is willing to even discuss this? They have far more important things to worry about.