Could it get any worse than this?

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Originally posted by BktBallRef
Dan is exactly right. A partner didn't show up. The PA announcer didn't show up. A team got blown out. What does any of that have to do with the sex of the players? My advice is that if you feel this way, don't accept any girls games and leave them for someone who would really like to work them.

JMHO

IMO, these things can happen at boys games, but they tend to happen at girls games. We have a consistent problem in my area with lack of security, inadequate facilities for changing our clothes (for a crew with men and women), locked doors with no keys to be found, etc. This is a game management problem. Obviously (to me anyway), the schools don't take the games as seriously as they do boys games.

FWIW, I quit doing girls games two years ago because I don't enjoy the basketball. The quality is much lower and I am happier not doing them. Jeff, you might want to think about this.

Originally posted by LarryS
JRutledge,
I usually enjoy reading your post and have learned much from you and the others here. This time, however, I think you
are dead wrong. Nothing you described is limited to the girls game. I went to see a 8th grade boys game a couple of
weeks ago...home team was up by 25 at the end of the first quarter. If the son of a dear freind had not asked me to go
see him, I would not have stayed to see that the final margin of victory was 68.

The big difference here is varsity contest vs. 8th grade. I have never seen an 8th grade game have anything done in the same scope as a varsity game. Apples and oranges, IMO.