Triangle Soccer Officials Association

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 20-31

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, email me at [email protected].

If it is the day of the game, call me at 919-368-4434

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 #107102 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 email. If no response via email, call your partner. If you are an AR and you have not been contacted by the referee, call them!

Email me at 9 PM the night before the scheduled contest if no response after email 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 919-368-4434 (for middle and private schools, do the rest below)

-Complete the ejection report (http://forms.nchsaa.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=Ejections&-loadframes)

-Email the report to [email protected]

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, email 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