Overweight Refs

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by lmeadski
Do you all think female refs suffer with credibility issues (especially in boys games) because of their gender?

Officials are judged on everything. Race, Gender, age, weight, background, where you live and anything else you can come up with. So of course a female ref is judged by her ability more harshly when working Boy's games. I have seen it happen for myself while working with a female partner. Violet Palmer had several articles and ESPN Stories about her working in the NBA. Do you know of any other officials where they asked many NBA stars what they think of one particular official (they also talked about Dee Kantner at the time too)?

Peace