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Originally posted by rainmaker
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Originally posted by ranjo
I enjoy officiating a "well played" boys or girls game. I do find I call them differently. Doing a girls game I call a closer more fundamental game (which seems to be what they expect.) Refereeing a boys game, the expectation is to let a little more incedental contact go and have more flow in the game.
In general, girls and their coaches seem to want all contact called and are not as concerned about game flow.
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These kinds of observations are very interesting to me and just what I want the thread to be concentrated on.
Your observation about calling closely, and game flow, doesn't match with my experience. My biggest varsity game this season had a team that ended up second in the state, and a team in their league who could very easily have upended them. My evaluator was critical that we called it too tight. He thought we should have let a lot more go. They seemed to want to allow any mugging that didn't actually put them on the floor, and my evaluator said we should have called it that way.
I wonder if it's a regional thing. Around here, I think girls get away with a lot more than boys.
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I agree that the higher the level of play, the more coaches and players accept incidental (and more) contact.
I believe many of the better girls players are the ones who regularly scrimmage and play pick-up games with the boys. Even some college girls teams scrimage against boys. (I believe I read an article recently saying the NCAA was thinking about prohibiting that practice - Probably better saved for a new topic)
Yes, we have to call the game the way our evaluators want us to, but I don't like for the style of play to change what I perceive is or is not a foul.
In my area I don't think the girls get away with more than the boys.