Women's Final Four Officials

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

In the last 6 years there have been 54 on-court Final Four officials. 16 have been male.

2 males have worked the final in the last 6 years out of 18 assignments.

If you're going to work women's college as a male, this is a reality you sign up for.

And a reason that many of us have decided that was not for us. I actually like their philosophy and respect it totally.

Peace

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by Kansas Ref

*I was surprised that the crew was entirely female. Not even one male ref. Which prompted me to wonder--since I had recently been writing about "age, racial, and gender bias" in officiating--why was a male ref not on there?

I have to be very cautious about drawing conclusions because it has been pointed out to me that my analysis of "age, gender, racial bias in the officiating industry" is too "simplistic". Was the evaluative rating of the male refs too low? Was there not a male ref willing to request the game? Were these the three highest rated refs available--which just by sheer probability just happened to be all "female"?
If I were to postulate why there were no male refs in that game, then the most parsimonious explanation would simply be: "the assignor only wanted to use only female refs".

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I have no problem with it. Other than the coaches who have to win to get to that level, why not the crew represent the players on the floor?

Peace

What Jeff said. And as an NCAAW official it doesn't bother me one bit.

As I said/implied earlier in this thread, I work with a lot fewer female officials than you might think in both NCAA and HS GV. I had two quarterfinal and one semifinal GV game last month and of the nine officials assigned only one was female. It changes slightly in the lower levels of NCAA and JUCO but not a whole lot. Believe me, men have their chances but the desire is to have female officials for the high-profile events at the highest levels. Makes sense to me.