To register or not?
Register: it's free, you get to work playoff games and your week 10 assignment.
Not: Registration is step one towards regulation - in fact, regulation is probably spitting distance from registration. While debating this, I think it is very important to note that, although registration is free THIS YEAR, the changes to Rule 1204 the UIL attempted to institute last year will be in place - including the Officials Rules Compliance Program, The UIL's Code of Ethics, and the UIL's plan to takeover TASO. Also worth noting, a violation of the Code of Ethics is failure to cooperate with the UIL (ie better do what they say). I've said it before, and I will say it again, "It is worth forgoing Week 10 and this year's playoffs for decades more of TASO."
Some great Mr. Timmons' quotes (from the first lawsuit):
preference would be given to UIL registered officials over TASO registered officials in game assignments;
that, because of the recent rule changes in the UIL documents, “you won’t find the word TASO in there with a telescope”;
if, next year, officials want to officiate a game, “they must be with the UIL or they will not be on the floor”;
UIL intends to provide the same services currently provided by TASO;
that, in the coming year, all officials “will be with the UIL – period.”
for those officials who did not comply with the new UIL registration scheme, it would be “bye-bye”;
that the UIL intended to make “drastic changes” for officials in the coming years.
