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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
So they afford to utilize U of O's court, but not pay for a 3rd official?  |
In this case, it is not directly a money argument.
The argument for 2-man in the tourney is that not all officials work 3-man. No HS games are 3-man in Oregon...only college officials would have 3-man experience. Of the tourney officials, some are also college officials, but not all, particularly at the middle and lower level tourneys. So, they're not going to throw a new system on HS officials at a HS tourney. That would be worse than what you give up by only using 2.
So, yes, they use bigger courts to hold all of the people that want to buy tickets but use 2-man because of consistency.
It does become a cost issue when you consider that to have officials ready to work post-season games with 3-man crews, you need to have them working 3-man crews throughout the season.