Refusal/Decline

[SD Referee]

I'm getting to the point that I won't accept girls games unless it's a varsity girls game only and is part of a double header with a boys varsity game.

Doing JV girls is mind numbing at best. Most of the time those games set basketball back about 50 years. Girls JV games are getting worse over the years.

Outside of that, I don't really have any guidelines that stop me from taking a game. If the coaches and ADs want me and agree to it, that's all I need to know.

[SC Official]

In SC you lose rating points if you decline or turn back an assignment "except in the case of an extreme emergency." We're supposed to submit any schools where we have conflicts of interest before the season starts so we don't get assigned to any of their games. Those schools don't count towards our allowable "blocks."

I rarely decline or turn back an assignment because my conflicts of interest are already programmed into Arbiter, and I don't leave a date open and then decline the game. Obviously the expectations may be different if this were a state like Wisconsin where officials typically work for a bunch of assigners.

Almost all of our assignments are girl/boy doubleheaders and we're limited to a maximum of two SCHSL-booked varsity assignments per week.

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by SD Referee

I'm getting to the point that I won't accept girls games unless it's a varsity girls game only and is part of a double header with a boys varsity game.

G/B doubleheaders are essentially the universal norm in the state where I work. We unfortunately don't have the option of picking which gender we want to work, although there are some proponents of sending different crews for each game to get more officials into varsity. Of course the schools would cry poor at that idea and a lot of officials would be pissed if they got assigned to the girls game (me being one of them, if I'm being completely honest).