What States use 3-man vs 2-man mechanics?

[Smiley]

SC uses 3-man for all varsity games. Locally, we use 3-man for JV, as well. Same officials call boys and girls games.

[Matt S.]

California is mostly 2-whistle, Montana is 2-whistle the entire season, although one district is experimenting with 3-whistle.

[JCurrie]

Georgia uses crew of 3 for both girls & boys varisty games. Surprised that so many states use two different crewws for boys & girls varisty games. Do most officials work for just one side ?

In Georgia are boys' and girls' on the same night? In PA boys are traditionally Tues/Fri and girls are Mon/Thur. We could use the same crew for both, but they'd have to sleep in the locker room. We send one crew to do the JV game, and then a different crew comes on for varsity.

[RookieDude]

Originally posted by GA ref
Georgia uses crew of 3 for both girls & boys varisty games. Surprised that so many states use two different crewws for boys & girls varisty games. Do most officials work for just one side ?

I belong to an Association that services the H.S. boys games only. (Kennewick, WA)
If you want to belong to the girls Association than you simply sign up for that Association.
In our Top 10 list of officials we only have 2 guys that do both boys and girls Varsity games, 8 out of our Top 10 do boys games only.
We only do the boys games on the night of the games...the girls association assigns their own officials for the girls games, even though it is at the same school.

Just down the road at Yakima, WA...most of their officials work both sides, I believe.

RD

[SCBroncos]

The state tourney in CA is all 3-person (top 8 teams from each of 5 divisions) for both genders. Some sectional championships are also using 3. During the regular season, most leagues use 2. It is really up to each individual league to decide how many officials they want (or more likely, how many they can afford).

[CLAY]

We are discussing going back to the 2 whistle game, after several years of 3 whistle. The conference coaches we are officiating in is complaining that, as officials we are to worried about position, proper switching, but most of all missing calls. The coaches feel with a 3 whistle officials we are missing calls because officials will not call something out of our area even when we see something that should been called.

The #1 Complaint the coaches have is a response from an official. "I seen it coach, but is was not my area.

The #2 Complaint we become lazy and are not as in tune with the game. Officials have the tendency to lose consentration.

The #3 Complaint is with a 3 whistle crew the game has become more physical, because of the # of fouls missed and not called. Due to lack of consenration & will not call out of one's area.

They feel the two person crew is more in control and has a better eye for the game.

[JRutledge]

CLAY,

Did anyone in your areas sit down with coaches and explain what the coverage areas are? Because you will never solve the "calling out of the area" problem (if you want to call that a problem) if the officials are doing their job properly. It seems to me the coaches need to educate themselves, because they are not going to get a better called game at the varsity level with 2 officials. Not with the size and strength these kids have today.

Peace

[gsf23]

North Dakota uses 3-person for Class A games and 2-person for Class B games.