The game fee questions of late are becoming a larger cause for concern if not thoughts of retirement. There are some 6 man schools who are taking a huge hickey not on the game fee but the travel. 5 men, 800 miles round trip, don't forget the meal fee and the $ 60 gate. This is playing holy **** with their budget, especially when the travel appeared a week before hand.
Now the "new". 1204 comes out, official drives 100 miles one way to meet the crew, rides 40 miles to the game, draws about 20 bucks, then goes home, that ain't gonna work, period. We have several officials that are college kids, some of us way past college, the constant cash outlay for dues, clinics, new shirts, new uniforms, and there are several times when you know the guys money situation is snug but still we want him to continue on. This just flat ain't right.
Maybe the big chapters can use it to weed out who they wish they didn't have, yet I don't see them jumping in the truck to drive out and help with the shortage. Play on saturday, play Thursday, shoot, don't play, it ain't our problem.
The engineer that thinks every man on the crew drawing "travel" check and a 10 dollar bump in the game fee, might have been doing his studies after a not so very good afternoon because this will not help one bit in retaining or getting officials.
I'll take the hit for saying I don't do it for the money, BUT, I aint doing it for nothing.
