i bet you get your pay sheet to the proper people so why should this be a tought thing to do. it keeps us out of trouble by being in a court room.
Its hard to respond to stupid comments, but I'll try:
1. I don't have 4-6 pay sheets at one game.
2. I've been officiating something in Texas since 1988 and at almost every game site (probably 1500+ at this point), I have filled one form out for the school and given it to them. In the rare cases I get a copy, its small enough to fold up and put away. Other places, I either got a check there or cash on the barrel-head.
3. I go to ONE person to fill out a sheet -- even if it takes talking to 3 or 4 to find out who that person is, but I don't have to get paperwork from those 3-4, and I certainly don't HAVE to keep up with what I get.
4. As a 10+ year litigation attorney, I can tell you that failure for the official to collect this sheet would not lead to any lawsuit. I know of no such lawsuit in Texas ever being filed, and Texas law would not look favorably on one.
This is another one of those deals that UIL wants done but doesn't want to do it, or put another way, doesn't want to HACK off the coaches in doing it, so they let the officials do the grunt work and be the fall guy. I'm sick and tired of this crap -- i.e. being told that UIL wants uniform rules, bench decorum rules, and all sorts of other things enforced but when a report is made outlining abuse of the rules, little or nothing is done. Take the San Antonio lawsuit and the events that lead to it: were the coaches involved sanctioned in any way by the UIL for being on the field? I don't know, but I would be shocked if they were.
This whole thing is stupid. Why can't the UIL require coaches to go online before every game and submit a certification? OR, better yet, certify at the beginning of the season that in all games players will be properly equipped? Your assumption that this will keep us out of court, even if correct, doesn't speak to the issue of there being MUCH better ways to accomplish the same thing.
