{"id":399940,"date":"2024-06-04T18:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399940"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:03:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:03:57","slug":"wheres-the-whistle-texas-high-school-football-is-facing-an-officials-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399940","title":{"rendered":"Where&#039;s the whistle? Texas high school football is facing an officials shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/football\/\">Texas high school football<\/a> is huge, so it is noteworthy that the state is facing a shortage of game officials.<\/p>\n<p>Three counties in Texas are going through a serious numbers crunch,<\/p>\n<p>Jason Rush, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austinfootballofficials.org\/contact\">Austin Football Officials Association<\/a> (AFOA) told KVUE that in a typical year, somewhere between 10-20 game officials would leave due to retirement or moving out of the year. This past year, he said, &#8220;saw a decline of about 100 officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The solution is simple: Get more officials. But Rush acknowledged that it is easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>His response to that is to make training as seamless and hassle-free for those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austinfootballofficials.org\/become-an-official\">looking to be trained as officials.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking at the adult learning concept and the fact that people have jobs and we&#8217;re short officials and what makes it easier,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/video\/news\/local\/269-51a5316e-37ff-480f-a2de-eb4ff83f6633\">Rush told KVUE<\/a>, an ABC affiliate in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a training site in North Austin, South Austin, we&#8217;ve now added a site in Marble Falls and in Bastrop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bastrop is 30 miles southeast of Austin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, we really preach the reward that comes with this and the good feeling,&#8221; Rush said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always enjoy pushing people out of their comfort zone and making them feel better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Texas high school football needs game officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399942,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399940\/revisions\/399942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}