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Originally Posted by Kansas Ref
The optics are not good when you have different shirts being worn by members of the crew at the same game. One of our evaluators even said as much, when he sees highschool refs officiating and one is wearing the 3 inch side panel shirt whereas other ref(s) are wearing the non-paneled shirt. I can only imagine how optically-displeasing it will be for him if a highschool ref has a ragland shirt and the partner has the normal shirt---yikes.
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That sounds like another issue if the state or association does not set some guidelines. We were told in Illinois a long time ago that we are not to wear the side-panel shirt in a high school game (and the same with Indiana). So you have to wear a basic striped shirt. The only issue we have here is that they allow a different kind of patch on our IHSA shirts that are allowed and they did not require all officials to be the same, which I am OK with BTW. We do not make enough money to have officials required to go buy multiple shirts IMO. At least at the college level, we are making at least double or triple amount for what a shirt cost during a single game. So if they make the change we are not out a ton of money, but it is still an inconvenient expense.
Peace