Communication issue

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Regional differences, and you can challenge whether we have a "choice" around here due to the CHSAA rules; but the fact is they do have a choice.

1. Don't work playoffs.
2. Work X number of JV boys games plus Y number of girls varsity games.
3. Combine those into JVG games and be able to work more VB games.

Again, the point I am making is not everyone is "made" to work both genders. In my state we have 4 different levels we can say we are able to work. Two of them are girl's post seasons; the other 2 are boy's post season tournaments. All of the state finals are not run on the same weekend nor do they run at the same places. It is impossible to work very deep in all of those tournaments at once and even if you could by avoiding a specific night, they have not allowed anyone to work both very often. And many times the choice is going to be made for you if you try to work both. As I said, if you work in a girl's conference, there is no guarantee you are going to work in the boy's side of that same conference. And in many cases officials have not been allowed to work both because they are labeled on one side or the other as I said before. And in my state, it is harder to get a boy's varsity game than it is to work a girl's varsity game. Many officials default to the girl's side because they cannot get games in boy's basketball. And frankly I think it takes a different skill level to work boy's games when the girl's side has different expectations (from coaches as well) on how the game is called and what is not called. And the fact that a coach is even talking about how bruised his girl's got and how physical the game was tells a huge story in that respect. I rarely hear a boy's coach talk about his player had a bruise on their elbow because of fouls that were not called. Another reason why I just leave that side alone as much as possible.

Peace