[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I am going to make and educated guess and make the following statement: If it were techically feasible to track every boys' and girls' H.S. freshmen, jr. varsity, and varsity games played in the U.S.A. for one school year, the percentage of games using two-man officiating crews would be well over 90% and maybe over 95%.

I do not doubt that more and more H.S. games are being officiated using three-man officiating crews, but two-man crews is still the dominates H.S. basketball because of economics. And while I have officiated jr. H.S. games where the level of play really could have used a three-man crew, the schools in this country will never (and I really do not like using the word never in this case) pay the money for three-man crews for jr. H.S. games. Dick Schindler hit the nail on the head, it is simple economics that keeps the vast majority of schools from using three-man crews exclusively.

Since I officiate futbol and not football, I cannot speak with authority, but I am sure that there is much discussion about the number of officials used in H.S. football compared to college football.