I thought the court ruling put everything back the way it was prior to the UIL takeover attempt. If so, those UIL chapters don't even exist. Or perhaps the court ruling just prevenst them from signing anyone else up, but those that had already signed up can continue to be UIL members.
I had the very same thought process, but it appears that the Appeals Court's latest ruling only prohibits the UIL from recruiting activities of TASO officials and further prohibits that recruiting activity on its website. It really doesn't address the UIL being in a position to effectively recruit John Q. Public as one of its UIL officials. After all, and as you might well remember, the Dancing Monkey's announced remedy to the covert threat of TASO Chapters and Officials walking-out was simply to go knocking on doors to recruit interested parties to become officials. I can't help but think that our little UIL friend as well as the Good UIL Dr.'s rationale in doing this is that they see a less than stellar economy, and they just kinda figure that there's a bunch of folks sitting around out there needing some form of revenue to help make it on, and selling them on the premise that officiating a high school or junior high football, basketball, baseball, softball, or soccer game could be the ticket to help put money in their pocket and bread on the table~ and that's not even taking into consideration that these folks had ever given any prior consideration to even think about donning stripes.
It is hardly a secret that if the law of supply and demand ever dictated that the UIL and the AD's could get by with only paying an official a $20.00 flat fee for a Varsity game, then that's exactly what they would pay! And while paying out that bare bones minimum, they would still continue in their attempt to work their magic and to push every step of the way to significantly lower that bottom-line figure even further!
