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Originally posted by proref27
There will be an adjustment period for any big change, but the sooner everyone learns it the better. In most major areas it is the standard. They have been using 3 person for several years now at the high school level in my area. They guys who know it are varsity officials. The guys who don't are JV officials, and you have to build a system to bring people up through. From learning at the freshman/jv HS level, to becoming more porficient at 3 person and moving to the Varsity level, and then possibly into college and pro level. Everyone has to start on the bottom at some point. Granted, this official had no business getting a tournament assignment if he couldn't work 3 person. The system in your area needs to be fixed to where this would not happen.
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The IHSA is at least trying. They still have the requirement that in order to work post season you must attend a camp or clinic once every 3 years. I think this official was one that made it through the cracks, so to speak, because this was the 1st year of 3-whistle in the post season. But there are still a large number of officials that have little 3-whistle experience during the season because there are still many smaller schools that will only pay for 2 officials. In the larger, metro areas 3-whistle is common, if not the norm. However, there are a large number of schools outside these metro areas. The AD comments are almost all having to do with money, or lack of it, to pay for 3 officials for the varsity game. So maybe the only way the 3-whistle experience level will go up is to require schools to hire officials that way. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.