Triangle Soccer Officials Association

MANY THANKS! To Ed Alston and his 25+ years of service to Middle and High School Soccer!

NCHSAA Rules Clinic/Association Meeting Agenda Rules Clinic Arbiter Clean-Up Procedures and Protocols for Fall 2012 Association Meeting Questions/Answers (If you have a question, please jot it down on a sheet of paper and wait until for this part of our session)

2012 Procedures and Protocols- Assignments All Assignments will go out on Sunday. They will cover 2 weeks out. For example, Assignments for August will go out on August 12. The assignments for September 3-8 will go out on August 19. You will have 48 hours to accept your assignments. Turn backs will be assigned the Wednesday after the assignments go out

2012 Procedures and Protocols- Assignments Assignments for August will be based on Clinic attendance, Scrimmages worked, and Performance. Middle Schools begin in September so there will be plenty of work then if you do not get an assignment in August. Again, please constantly update your AVAILABILITY

2012 Procedures and Protocols- Assignments If you accept an assignment and have to turn it back later, me at If it is the day of the game, call me at Do not make this a HABIT

2012 Procedures and Protocols- Philosophy The assignment staff if looking to eliminate OVER- EXPOSURE of officials to schools Travel is also a consideration for assignments. You may have a “linked” assignment where games on different days are attached to each other. We have to service ALL the schools, not just the ones next to your home. If you have to travel a great distance one day, my goal is for your next assignment to be close to home

Arbiter Clean-Up: Ralph Jordan To be assigned for the fall of 2012 all officials must: Accept the Triangle Soccer Officials Invite, Group # Click on Ready to Assign Insert a Picture Utilize the sharing function Clean up your information, especially the multiple telephone numbers Update your travel limits. For example, your work zip codes might be drastically different from your home zip code Constantly update your AVAILABILITY

2012 Procedures and Protocols-Pre- Game Contact The referee will contact his/her crew in a 3 man system 48 HOURS before the scheduled contest The referee listed first will contact his/her partner in a 2 man system 48 HOURS before the scheduled contest Preferred method of contact is . If no response via , call your partner. If you are an AR and you have not been contacted by the referee, call them! me at 9 PM the night before the scheduled contest if no response after or call Please determine what color jerseys you have, socks, etc.

2012 Procedures and Protocols-Pre- Game Arrival You must be on the field 15 MINUTES prior to kickoff for any contest that starts before 6:15 PM You must be on the field 30 MINUTES prior to kickoff for any contest that starts after 6:30 PM (This includes 6:45 and 7:00 PM starts) If you can’t be there before that time, don’t accept the game Be sure your AVAILABILITY mirrors this as well

2012 Procedures and Protocols-Pre- Game Arrival Why? Inspect the field. Ensure goals are anchored TALK WITH THE CLOCK OPERATOR (All fields with a scoreboard will have the clock run down to zero. No Exceptions) Conduct a Pre-Game with crew Warm-Up

NFHS Rules Quiz What are the reasons in NFHS for a yellow card? What are the reasons in NFHS for a red card?

2012 Procedures and Protocols-Post Game Complete Match Report on Arbiter What should a completed match report look like when reporting misconduct? #5 Kyle Smith, 56‘, Cary High, UB (reckless tackle) Use the NFHS codes for yellow and red cards, the give a brief explanation in parenthesis

2012 Procedures and Protocols-Post Game IF YOU HAVE AN EJECTION DO THE FOLLOWING: -For a NCHSAA Public High School, call me at (for middle and private schools, do the rest below) -Complete the ejection report ( wp/cgi?-db=Ejections&- loadframes) - the report to

I have a 3 year plan My goal is to RAISE THE STANDARD of our officials pool. Year 1, the focus will be PROFESSIONALISM. Year 2, the focus will be GAME MANAGEMENT Year 3, the focus will be FITNESS

What others think of our GROUP WAKE COUNTY AD’s Officials don’t show up on time or at all We don’t differentiate the rules appropriately We allow too much trash-talking/dissent Lack of fitness Refs wearing different color jerseys

What others think of our GROUP Northern Carolina Conference Back and forth banter with officials and crowd There is inconsistency in rule application No preventative officiating Officials with hats are not keeping up with play

What others think of our GROUP PAC VI The temperament of officials is poor. Officials escalate the situation instead of calm it down

What others think of our GROUP Carolina 12 Referees are on power- trips and neglect AR’s Refs act like they own the place Refs not showing up on time

Professionalism Focus We are not that bad! However, slight modifications to our APPEARANCE will help our PERCEPTION

Professionalism Focus Be on TIME, on THE FIELD Inspect the field No faded, discolored, or torn uniforms (Is it time to update your uniform?) Be professional with coaches and players with our demeanor Do pre-games with scoreboard operators Warm-Up! No hats for Varsity games.

Professionalism Focus MANDATORY: All yellow and red cards will be explained to the head coach of the player who received the card. NO EXCEPTIONS! Why? It gives everyone time to cool down and explains the behavior to the coach who can correct. Remember, this is school soccer. The playing field is an extension of the classroom

Professionalism Focus If we can raise the standard of PROFESSIONALISM, we will eliminate the PERCEPTION that we currently have

Observations If you would like an observation, me with a request If your request is granted, the cost is $55.00 to be paid by the REFEREE on site to the observer I can’t promise we will honor every observer request but we will do our best. Observations will be focused for the referee but all crew members will be looked at Some games will have blind observers on them. The cost of the observation will be covered by TSOA

Observers-Scrimmages Every scrimmage will have an observer at it. Observer Scrimmage Staff Jude Carr Bill Gibson Dan Fitzgerald Mark Kadlecik Ayman Nabulsi Demah Payne Ken Rudder Jeremy Smith Larry Stroud, Jr Jeff Thomas

Questions???? Please, do not hesitate to ask!

FALL 2012 This PowerPoint presentation will be on the Arbiter Be sure to constantly update your AVAILABLITY Be professional in all that we do! Good Luck for a successful FALL 2012