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Originally posted by oatmealqueen
Because the responses to this thread are opinions, I will offer these comments as my opinion, and respectfully so.
In Michigan we have seperate seasons for the boy's and girl's seasons. (Girls=Aug.-Dec... Boy's=Dec.-March) So all of us do both boy's and girl's during the course of the school year. I work both.
I was taken aback by comments such as "subjected to" and "training ground for newer officials".
I understand that the caliber of girl's ball is different from region to region, but please, the girl's deserve the highest quality of officials just as much as the boy's. I believe that Chuck, Rut, and the other very good officials that posted, NEED to do these games. They need your experience and knowledge.
BTW, the caliber of the girl's ball in my area is pretty good, lots of big schools.
My attitude is "A game is a game, and every game deserves the best officials calling it". JMHO
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Oatmealqueen: My Michigan friend tells me that your state will be switching to boys/girls same season soon. You will soon see what we "same season states" are talking about as far as boys/girls game preference. There are definitely big politics and biases here regarding being on the boys and/or girls side, and who moves up, and who gets games, etc. Hopefully there will be good organization, and perhaps separate game days for girls and boys games in Michigan. Otherwise, you can expect many unhappy refs when they get assigned girls games instead of boys games. It will be interesting to see how the ball bounces, so to speak.