[socalreff]

You can believe if you want that girls basketball is better in the Northwest, but every time I've seen teams come to SoCal they get killed. I think it doesn't get any better than SoCal--boys and girls. As far as the girls not talking trash or being better sports---it's not without exceptions. But in general, they are much better about letting us do our job and just playing the game. For me it's much more enjoyable to be able to just ref the game without all the extraneous nonsense that has become far too prevalent in boys and mens basketball. Sure it's a challenge, but it's one we as officials shouldn't be putting up with, especially on the high school level.