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Originally Posted by Reffing Rev.
If we are going to add black pants for comfort reasons can we also add shorts for comfort reasons, especially for those early August games.
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I would have no problem with this. My state association allows shorts for JV ball. It's up to the individual crew whether they are white or black. The debate surrounding allowing shorts is a perfect illustration of my intent when I started this thread. The old guard fought the change for a long time but eventually shorts prevailed. Now there isn't one crew in my association that uses knickers for warm JV games and that includes the old guard that fought against the shorts. The shorts are simply more comfortable in warm weather. I think a the pants would be much better in warm weather as well. The pants have a looser fit that would allow air to circulate.
I doubt the quality of the officiating would suffer if shorts were allowed for warm varsity games.