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Originally posted by rainmaker
I agree that saving yourself for the "real" game deserves to be spread equally between boys and girls. Why not have two crews, though? Crew A could do 1st JV game and then sit, and then do 1st Var, Crew B could do 2nd JV and then sit and 2nd Var. After all that's what the swing players do!
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Juules,
You misunderstood the schedule of games. Allow me to be more specific. When school A plays school B, school A will host three games and so will school B. Let's say school A is designated the home school for this match-up. That means they have the two varsity games. So on a weekday (like a Friday) at school A we would have a GJV @ 3:45PM, GV @ 5:15, and BV @ 7PM. School B would then have the BF, GF, and BJV in some order at the same times at their gym. The order of the GV and BV games never changes (they could flip them, but they don't), but the location and the order of playing the other four games rotates from year to year. For example, one year the BF game may preceed the two varsity games, but the next year it may be the GJV.
Since there are only three games at any one site, you see why your proposed plan would not work? Also many people are not available for that early 3:45 afternoon game!
Now Vegas does things in a much better manner in my opinion.
When two schools meet, they play the boys games at one site and the girls games at the other. They start at 5 and play the freshmen and junior varisty games simultaneously. Each school was built with a main and an auxillary gym, so the jv game is in the main gym and the frosh game is in the smaller gym. The varsity game is then played in the main gym following the jv game.
This allows the officials better travel time after work on a weekday, and lets the assignor send only four officials to a school if he wants. Three of them simply stay and work the varsity game after doing the lower level games two-man.
The assignor can also honor requests to do girls games only under this schedule. I know him personally and he tells me that he does not honor requests to do boys only, but with this line-up he could.
Why is it different in the north and south? Who knows?