Women's South Carolina @ UConn plays (Video)

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Pot. Kettle.Black.

Here's Nevada for his quarterly attack on me, which never ends well for him.

Keep going, pal.

It is not just an attack on you. It is moral judgment (at anyone) of what we do in an extra-curricular activity.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

It is not just an attack on you. It is moral judgment (at anyone) of what we do in an extra-curricular activity.

Peace

I just don't enjoy watching a team that I know is going to win and (usually) win big. 100 straight wins? Yawn.

I watch as much NBA basketball as I do NCAAW on TV. It's not my thing. Bores me. I've lived in the Madison area 15 years and I've been to 2 NCAAW games, even though the tickets are frequently $1.

What this has to do with my assigning or even my officiating, I have no idea. I use my best officials on both genders as the nights typically don't overlap here. And only a handful work only girls or only boys, usually cause they work college ball.

No, it's the usual thing.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

I just don't enjoy watching a team that I know is going to win and (usually) win big. 100 straight wins? Yawn.

I watch as much NBA basketball as I do NCAAW on TV. It's not my thing. Bores me. I've lived in the Madison area 15 years and I've been to 2 NCAAW games, even though the tickets are frequently $1.

What this has to do with my assigning or even my officiating, I have no idea. I use my best officials on both genders as the nights typically don't overlap here. And only a handful work only girls or only boys, usually cause they work college ball.

No, it's the usual thing.

That is why to me girls basketball is not much fun to watch or officiate. Most of the time it is very predictable, outside of the other things that do not interest me in the game. And since I get to choose what I watch or officiate, I choose not watch or officiate girls or women's basketball.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

That is why to me girls basketball is not much fun to watch or officiate. Most of the time it is very predictable, outside of the other things that do not interest me in the game. And since I get to choose what I watch or officiate, I choose not watch or officiate girls or women's basketball.

Peace

I still work girls games. 2 of the best games I was ever part of were girls games. I don't think it's a crime to admit that you enjoy working boys games more, either. I do, too.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

I still work girls games. 2 of the best games I was ever part of were girls games. I don't think it's a crime to admit that you enjoy working boys games more, either. I do, too.

That is the problem I have seen my entire career. When I started officiating I never even imagined working girls basketball. It did not cross my mind until I was asked to work those games. In our area we often have to choose or if you want to work boys predominately, you have to let go of the girls basketball. Part of that is also because of the playoffs. Right now the girls playoffs have started and if you are working boys basketball, the regular season is still going on. It makes it very difficult to work both and giving back boys games to work girls playoffs also is not looked highly on. Many assignors only assign one or the other, but usually not both. I do not think I have worked a single girls game in like 2 years and when I did it was one game that season as a favor to someone I respect and gives me a lot of very good games.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

That is the problem I have seen my entire career. When I started officiating I never even imagined working girls basketball. It did not cross my mind until I was asked to work those games. In our area we often have to choose or if you want to work boys predominately, you have to let go of the girls basketball. Part of that is also because of the playoffs. Right now the girls playoffs have started and if you are working boys basketball, the regular season is still going on. It makes it very difficult to work both and giving back boys games to work girls playoffs also is not looked highly on. Many assignors only assign one or the other, but usually not both. I do not think I have worked a single girls game in like 2 years and when I did it was one game that season as a favor to someone I respect and gives me a lot of very good games.

Peace

Here they typically don't play BBB on the night of a girls regional - and the boys season is typically over the Thursday of the first week of the boys playoffs.

My games next week are a boys regular season game, a girls regional, a boys regular season game, and a girls regional.

After that, both boys and girls are in the postseason.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Here they typically don't play BBB on the night of a girls regional - and the boys season is typically over the Thursday of the first week of the boys playoffs.

My games next week are a boys regular season game, a girls regional, a boys regular season game, and a girls regional.

After that, both boys and girls are in the postseason.

Well our post season starts in this order by week.

1A-2A girls regional
3A-4A girls regional (This is the week we are in right now)
1A-2A boys regional
3A-4A boys regional

All playoffs start with a week of regional. Then two games in the Sectional (4 teams), Super-Sectional (usually held on a college campus) and then State Finals which includes the Semifinals and Title game in each class.

I work mostly 3A-4A boys for two reasons. Mostly that is what is in the area and what I set goals to work. Also we are allowed to not accept or not make ourselves eligible for any of these 4 levels. I used to get playoffs with the smaller school boys (which used do be Class A in a two class system) but over the last several years I was not given any of these assignments. So I stopped trying to get them in the future. That might change at some point, but not right now.

Peace