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Originally Posted by rainmaker
Of course, you're right. I'm just saying that a 46-year old woman might have more chance of getting some college than a 46-year old man. At least in some conferences.
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First of all we really need to stop the comparisons based only on age. Men's and Women's basketball are completely different situations. In the Midwest on the Women's side is really in control of one supervisor. Every little conference at the D1 level and many lower conferences are in the hands of one person. There is no such animal on the Men's side.
For example I know a young female officials that I directed to attend a couple of camps and she got about 20-30 college games right off the bat on the Women's side. There are not such examples in this day and age on the Men's side that I am aware of.
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Originally Posted by rainmaker
Another thing that matters to some extent is how old you appear. There are 55 year old people that don't look a day over 35, and they aren't allowed to ask you. So 46 isn't necessarily the end of the line, although it's probably getting close.
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Once again that might be an issue more on the Women's side, I do not see that as an issue on the Men's side. Men's supervisors tend to want to know what age you are, what levels you have worked, where you live and are you capable to travel to most of their conferences which involves your job and other family issues. How you look other than your weight I have almost never heard of that being an issue before the other things I just mentioned. And on the Men's side there are fewer slots and more people trying to fill those slots. This is why I did not say age was the only factor. There is no one factor that any of these supervisors use, but they are looking for "why nots" not "why" when they want to hire people. If they have younger officials capable it is likely they will go with the youth over the older person that does not have the "years" left in their career. They can always groom a younger official to do what they want to do.
Peace