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I agree with both sides. Sometimes rec is not a decent experience.
However for a new official you should work as many games as you can. There is nothing that takes the place of being on the floor. The more times you see people running around, trying to set picks, banging on rebounds, guarding each other you should learn something about the game. This is where you can practice reffin the defense and off ball. Sometimes you can ref off ball the whole night because you know your partner is on ball 100% of the time! You learn to blow your whistle, you learn not to blow your whistle. Each time you do it you get more confidence. If all you do is 30 HS games a year you wont get the experiences that you need. AS was mentioned above the more games you do the more likely that there will be something off the wall that happens that you learn to handle. I still ref some "rec ball" a lot of it is kids ball ( a lot of our 9th grade leagues here are run by the rec dept and are games that have good crowds and some fairly decent competition) I would get with your assignor to pick and choose. There are leagues I wont do. There are some men's leagues that you should do. Find the leagues that have the guys who have played D1/II/JC ball, that have the 6'2to 6'6 , 260lb.guys (even if they are a little out of shape) because many of these guys know how to post, push, and set picks etc it will help you HS game.
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