Help IL Vet Officials

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by truerookie

Jrut,

I am glad it's just an opinion. When I was able to officiate I worked both sides. A whistle is a whistle it does not matter which side you work. Let the truth be told, I believe most (some) prefer boys because a lot more incidental contact can be passed on. JMO

Actually it is more than an opinion as I am not the person that makes those decisions. But the people that make those decisions do not allow officials in many cases to work both. And since we are talking about the post season here, it is also very difficult to work both considering you cannot be in two places at the same time. But the reason I think it is mostly difficult is because the girl's side want every little thing a foul, where that would be not acceptable in a high level or athletic boy's game. You can say it does not matter, but I stopped working girl's games because I let "too much go" from their point of view. I got tired of expectations of calling fouls when the defense did nothing wrong but play defense. And working a shootout last week and it involved girl's and boy's games confirmed that very thing. Now I only worked two boy's games, but sitting in the stands listening to what people wanted a foul was horrifying.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Actually it is more than an opinion as I am not the person that makes those decisions. But the people that make those decisions do not allow officials in many cases to work both. And since we are talking about the post season here, it is also very difficult to work both considering you cannot be in two places at the same time. But the reason I think it is mostly difficult is because the girl's side want every little thing a foul, where that would be not acceptable in a high level or athletic boy's game. You can say it does not matter, but I stopped working girl's games because I let "too much go" from their point of view. I got tired of expectations of calling fouls when the defense did nothing wrong but play defense. And working a shootout last week and it involved girl's and boy's games confirmed that very thing. Now I only worked two boy's games, but sitting in the stands listening to what people wanted a foul was horrifying.

Peace

Preach on, brother.

I like that a lot of the assignors down there only assign boys. It makes it much easier to not work the other side.

I wish it was like baseball/softball. It's easy to avoid softball -- just don't license in it. The assignors treat them as different sports and I wish they did the same with boys and girls basketball.