The 3 versus 2 fallacies, a mini-rant

[Adam]

Originally Posted by tomegun

In Maryland it is normally one game a night. The area is divided up by counties (PG, Montgomery, Howard, etc.) PG county is three-man for varsity games and Montgomery county isn't. The Catholic leagues use three-man. The pay is normally $60 a game.

Down here in the great state of Mississippi, all varsity games are three-man and we have to do double-headers. The pay is...$60 for a double-header! I have come close to doing as many high school games this season as I did all of last season and January is going to be the busiest month! Fortunately, there are several opportunities for college nearby and I will be hitting the camps to expand in that area. I don't like doing two games and doing more college will solve that problem even though I can't complain about my college schedule this year since I'm new.

I had the opposite experience with games available and with pay. The pay per game here is a bit higher than it was in Des Moines, but there aren't nearly as many games available. In DM, the big schools have Frosh, Soph, JV, and varsity for boys and girls. Most freshman have A and B teams. Here, the "big" schools have freshman (one team), JV, and Varsity. AAU is limited, and there is no YMCA. I had bigger crowds in some MS AAU games in DM than I see for some varsity games here. My first varsity game in Iowa was a small school outside DM, and it was packed (visitors brought quite a few). Here, the small school varsity game had plenty of seating left, and the visitors brought a couple dozen people at most. I'm lucky to get two games a week on average.

Basketball just isn't that big a deal here, not like in the midwest.