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[QU more andOTE=1-3-1-press;1732719]LOL..nice link. If you think their so bad, fill out an app and become one. Those guys do these games for basically nothing. (65$ or something) taking away family time , driving sometimes 60$ in gas to get there and back so they are doing it sometimes for free. They have to listen to mommy and daddy all night yelling, I'd say officiating is tougher than it seems. I respect them, no one is prefect, sometimes bad calls are made.[/QUOTE]

Most of these refs are now making a $130 a night doing both the J V and varsity games, that's pretty good money for 3hrs work. I'm seeng more and more doing this full time. If the Khsaa was serious about it they would hire a outside source to grade them because the coaches will not give them a bad score for fear it will come back to bite them. The only thing that has bothered me this year is that in some of the better games that sometimes the best officials are not working them