Long time official Bobby Blondi with C-Z-R assistant football coach Buddy Velasco (Randall Risley photo)
NOTE: This was passed on to me by long time official Bobby Blondi. It is getting tougher to find officials as the days go on. This has been a matter of discussion for years. Please click to read the following article from The National Federation of High School Sports….For the past several years, state association leaders have warned that we were about to face a crisis relative to the number of officials we have. The crisis is upon us and it has reached epidemic proportions. Newspapers across the country all have the same headline in the sports section: “Schools forced to reschedule games due to officials’ shortage.” The next headline will be even worse: “Games cancelled due to a lack of sports officials.” The writing has been on the wall for quite some time but little has been done to truly heed the warning and to address the problem – the “why” of where we are and the “how” to fix it…
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