Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown, 1965) ...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SC Official

No choice here in SC. You work doubleheaders (girls then boys) or you don't work.

Certainly makes it nice and simple.

So, let me think, the boys get the "tired" officials? Parents of girls have to rush home from work to see the game, but parents of boys can just leisurely drive home, get a bite, maybe a "slice", and go to the game?

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Certainly makes it nice and simple.

So, let me think, the boys get the "tired" officials? Parents of girls have to rush home from work to see the game, but parents of boys can just leisurely drive home, get a bite, and go to the game?

Girls coaches complaint: "Crews don't give full effort in our games because they have to work another game after."

Boys coaches complaint: "Crews are tired because they had to work a game right before ours."

Only way we would have separate crews is if schools started playing girls and boys on different nights. Not going to happen.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Only way we would have separate crews is if schools started playing girls and boys on different nights.

Back when I started, almost forty years ago, it was almost universal that boys played Tuesday and Friday nights, and girls played on Mondays and Thursdays (we use to have our board meetings on Wednesday nights).

Nice setup, especially for schools with one gymnasium. No need to close the folding doors and split the gym for practice (except for Wednesdays). Teams were guaranteed a full gym on at least two weekday afternoons, at convenient times right after school.

Plenty of officials to work both genders over four different nights.

Why it changed, I don't know?

Some schools now use a "one gender home, the other gender on the road" schedule, and some apparently schedule with a pair of fuzzy dice.

Now we have our board meetings on Sunday mornings, which pisses off those who want to attend religious services with their families.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Girls coaches complaint: "Crews don't give full effort in our games because they have to work another game after." Boys coaches complaint: "Crews are tired because they had to work a game right before ours."

[BillyMac]

Who wants to have more fun?

Cheerleaders.

At all the home games, both genders? Always at boys games (home and on the road)?

[ODog]

For us, most of our top officials are assigned zero (or very few) girls games, and that's just the way it works. No opt-in/opt-out or choosing required.

Boys and girls generally play on different nights, but that doesn't change the fact that some of our top dogs will just get a night off on "girls nights." They don't have to request no girls. Our assignor just does it that way.

Other top officials may get a smattering of girls, says 6-8 games out of 35. I can't think of any "good" officials in our area who do even 40 percent girls games.

So in our area, girls definitely get lower-quality officials -- and fewer three-person crews -- and that's just life.