OSSAA failed

Yet again I guess I must have mis communicated. The sheer hypocrisy in your response says it all. Accusing people of whining and complaining. When the OSSAA has a procedure in place that this is not supposed to happen. However in your pure intellect you want to talk down to the people that are pointing out the root problem. If the rule would have been followed this conversation might not even be happening. No one will ever know. I am pointing out that the state failed. Gore might have been playing a stacked deck. It appears that way on the surface. I didn’t make the rules the OSSAA did. I hope the people of Gore throw a fit and file a complaint. Won’t matter. They will just talk about it and move on. You get on here and tell people they are whining about the rules of the game. Your hypocrisy is pouring out that you aren’t questioning why the state didn’t follow the rules. Fairview won. But the states failure should put an asterisk by it because they creating this situation in my opinion. Same thing happening in Georgia. No accountability. Because people like yourself just say quit whining. I feel the players and community of any school that deals with this deserve better from an organization that is making millions of dollars.

We can all agree that OSSAA isn’t the greatest. But if you want the “best” (I say that very carefully) of the officials per the OSSAA, then it would be hard not to have some over lapping somewhere. They did not think of that in their rule writing obviously. 9 championships with 18 semifinals games looking at almost 18 different crews when they play on different days. It’s hard not to repeat and carry over in different classes because they will end up overlapping at some point if they are again “top notch.” With that being said I know it’s a rule and a poorly thought out rule that was probably written 10 years ago when there was an abundance of “decent” refs. Accusing the OSSAA of “maybe stacking the deck” though is a bit of a reach. I would be embarrassed to even think that. OSSAA is bad but come on now.

You’re the journalist. Go make a phone call and figure that out but coaches can file complaints to the OSSAA. Maybe Gore should sue the OSSAA…I don’t know. I think your beef is with the OSSAA and not the officials from Saturday night.

Each official is rated per game they officiate on a scale of 1-5. You can go look at the OSSAA.com website and probably pull those earrings from those officials that called the game. You also receive a grade of U, R, A, C (Unclassified, Registered, Approved, and Certified) it’s based on years of officiating, how many meetings you attended, did you do at least 5 varsity level games the previous season, how many points you earned) etc. A C is the grade you want.

Before the playoffs, like midsession there is a crew test. Like 80 questions or something like that. You turn it in and it’s graded and the crew is given a score. It’s all open book multiple choice.

During the playoffs the OSSAA assigns the crew to the game. You have to accept the assignment in X amount of days and if you don’t it gets reassigned. Some crews get multiple games. If you officiate a round 1 game you’re probably not going to get a round 2 game. If one of you crew members is rated a U, you’re not going to get a Quarterfinal game. (All knew officials will have U ratings until they have been officials for at least 4 years)

I’ve looked for the rule to where you’re saying it states that a crew cannot officials a team in the playoffs they already called for. I can’t find it. Not saying it didn’t happened and you know as well as I know a lot of that stuff is political. It’s the good ole buddy system.

This is from 2014. Doesn’t say that officials can’t call a team again, just says they prefer not to.

“Whaley checks each crew's regular-season schedule. He prefers not to have a crew call a game involving a team it recently officiated over.”

www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/berry-tramel/2014/12/01/ossaa-director-tells-how-officials-are-selected/60781208007/