[just another ref]

Originally Posted by Adam

I'm always curious about this: can a school legally, intentionally get 2 officials in all their girls games while getting 3 for the boys games of the comparable level?

Let's be honest, there are some varsity girls games out here that really only need two, but they get three. The JV boys at these schools could not be reasonably worked with 2, however. Those schools get 3 for JV/V B and G.

I think this is the key phrase. What is reasonable? Some of us here can remember when the NBA used two officials. Were all the games up to this point "unreasonable"? Most things eventually come down to money, at least to some degree. If the schools think they can't afford it for both, some would probably cut back to 2 for the boys rather than go to 3 for the girls.