One of our blog readers recently sent in an email pointing out how badly outdated the USTA and USTA Texas Section websites are in regard to officials. Perhaps if we list them on the blog, they might actually get updated sometime in 2012.
USTA Website (www.usta.com)
* When you click on the USTA website and go the "Officials" tab, click on "ITA National Championships" and you will see the last time the material was updated was 10/26/09. Here is a link to the site:
* When you click on the same location as above and then click on "Important Information For All Certified Officials" you will find that the information is how to send in your 2009 Data Card for your 2010 certification and the requirements to attend a 2009 school. Here in the link:
Texas Section Website (www.texas.usta.com)
* When you click on "Officials" and then go to "Becoming An Official", there is no mention of Nucula and no mention of the background check requirement in 2010. It also has instructions to send your non-existent data card to the Sectional Chairman. Here is the link:
* When you go to the above listed site and click on "officials" and then click on "FAQ", again there is no mention of the background check. In order to become an official you are instructed to send in your data card or write to Ryan Orner in NYC. Here is the link:
Obviously our officials are on the ball and finding these un-updated sites for our experienced and new officials. Surely someone somewhere could find the time to update these important sites sometime during the past two years...
We must apologize because in the past we have had a blog link on the right side of the blog entitled "Becoming An Official." That link has been removed since it contained such badly outdated material. As soon as the site is updated, we will put the link back on the blog.
If you are a new official or know someone who is beginning as a new official, you can send an email to this blogsite and will immediately send you a document outlining the correct steps that need to be taken in order to become an official.
Hopefully you will find the new information helpful.
8 comments:
Randy,
The USTA is dropping the ball on these important, but minor issues in their minds; because they are totally focused on DIVERSITY!!
The USTA suits have a one-track mind; and quit picking at'em.
I know that someone in the USTA office in NYC is responsible for updating their website but who is responsible for seeing that the Texas Section website is kept up to date? And how hard is it to update the site?
I've posted this before so I will repeat it:
Folks get used to doing things (or not doing them) a certain way over time. To ask them to do ANYTHING different is threatening. It doesn't matter if the change is an improvement. Any change makes folks uncomfortable and keeping things the same feels so much better.
If they update it now after 2 years, then someone will have the gall to want it updated in the next 18 months; then in the next 12 months; then in the next 6 months. You see where I'm going with this!
Ain't gonna happen!
Aren't some of you blowhards on the USTA Officials cmte here in Texas? Why not just contact the guy in charge of updating. He doesn't know what to change unless you tell him. The guy has worked there less than a year and doesn't know. Help him out and don't just expect him to be reading this random blog on the day after XMas. I'm just bored. That's my excuse
Well a lot is over looked , like the ITA rule about working for a University, and officiating at the same University....hmmm a lot is odd things in that Brazos city, and not just with one favorite official.
But let's only fry the big fish, right?
Glass houses.
The lack of updates in Texas goes directly to the abdication of responsibility and leadership by our do-nothing Sectional Chairman.
It would only require an email to the right person to get these sites updated. I guess that's too much to ask of those who are being paid to keep them up to date.
This is my first post to your blog, but I think the problem stems from the simple fact that there is nobody in the Texas Section office responsible for ensuring the website is up-to-date. If I'm wrong, then either that person has no clue how to work with websites, or is extremely lazy.
In any event, that is the main reason why I never waste my time going to the website in the first place.
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