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Originally Posted by ODog
For us, most of our top officials are assigned zero (or very few) girls games, and that's just the way it works. No opt-in/opt-out or choosing required.
Boys and girls generally play on different nights, but that doesn't change the fact that some of our top dogs will just get a night off on "girls nights." They don't have to request no girls. Our assignor just does it that way.
Other top officials may get a smattering of girls, says 6-8 games out of 35. I can't think of any "good" officials in our area who do even 40 percent girls games.
So in our area, girls definitely get lower-quality officials -- and fewer three-person crews -- and that's just life.
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Pretty much how it works here. I only get asked to work a girls game as a "favor" to the assignor that might assign both. And the rest never even attempt to ask because they already know the answer. I also work college which takes up many of my off high school nights. It is really obvious when the state finals come and the lower classes clearly do not get the same quality of officials as the boys do as a general rule.
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Originally Posted by johnny d
I am so happy I don't have to put up with this nonsense in Illinois. If I had to work girls games, I would never have started officiating high school basketball. It is pretty obvious in the Chicago area that the overall quality of girls officials is significantly lower than the boys officials. Most of the men doing high school girls games in this area are doing them because they were not good enough to get boys games or a full schedule of boys games.
And who cares what the principals, athletic directors, coaches, or Gloria Steinem thinks. As an independent contractor, I get to choose for whom and when I work. If they want better officials, they should make their product better.
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Yes, yes and yes. This is not social justice we are talking about here. I have no desire to work girls basketball and only did it early on because it would get me experience. Now I have choices and I make no apologies for my choices. When I leave my house I have to be satisfied with what I am doing or I will stay home.
Peace