The case against two man

[bbcof83]

Back to BigGravy's point: that the amount of money needed per year for the 3rd official is small when looking at an overall school budget. I agree it's small but disagree that it should be a priority for schools. I won't get too in depth on why but there were a hand full of schools closed this year in this area due to budget cuts. How can I complain about not having a 3rd official when teachers are being cut and kids class sizes are sky rocketing? Anyway. To answer your last question...

Last year I would say about 75% of varsity games were 3 crew around here. This year, citing budget issues, all but 2 conferences went back to 2. All for about $1,500 a year/school. Some very good, experienced, valuable officials are cutting back and/or hanging it up because they can't keep up with just 2 officials. It sucks but it's life.