Let me expand: Largest schools [with biggest gates] are expected to have 3 crews for 4 GV & 4 BV home games. Next biggest, 3 of each, and so forth. Largest schools also have larger budgets AND there are not many private schools in VT, which here in FL seem to be in the lowest 3 of 6 classifications. [I presume that there may be more private schools in NC that populate some of the smaller classifications, hence some larger gates.]

Also, in VT, coach buses are used by many larger schools and the large schools tend to not have to travel as far for many of their games.

A Numbers Game ...
 

My local board covers seventy high schools. Only two public high schools in my local area have fewer than three hundred students, the smallest having 218, and 236. On the other end of the spectrum we have a twenty-one public high schools in my local area with over one thousand students, the largest having 2568 students.

I could make an argument that bigger schools likely have better athletes and their games likely need 3 officials more than smaller schools. Sure, there are exceptions that prove the rule.

But from a money standpoint, it makes little sense, I agree.

From a completely non-PC standpoint, I'd be thrilled to go 3-person for all boys games and none of the girls games.

Nope. There are only 2 private schools among the almost 400 schools that comprise the NCHSAA.

Athletic budgets are based solely on individual school district funding. Size really doesn't have much to do with it.

Keep me in town on Tuesdays, in town being where the 4A schools are, and send me out of town where the gyms are packed on Friday night.

I don't have any desire to do any 2 man games. No thank you.

I enjoy it from time to tim, actually. If it's an easy game to work where I can get into a good run up and down the court, there's nothing like it.

Of course, it's hard to predict when a game's going to be easy to work.

It is not a matter of staring at the basketball. The point is that in a 2-person game, if BOTH officials need to watch for the same thing to happen -- peripheral vision, walking-and-chewing-gum-at-the-same time, etc. not withstanding -- I believe (and, since the NFHS did NOT put the mechanic in the 2-person mechanics, they must agree) -- is overkill and increases the risk that an official will miss something significant. I don't consider myself to be particularly dense, but I do know that any additional activity will at least occasionally cause something to be missed.

I KNOW when I have to do JVB, two-person in some of the larger schools here, I'm going to have a good workout....and sometimes have my hands full.

I don't see it as a particularly compelling argument, to be honest, but I don't see the T mirroring the chop to be particularly compelling in 3-person, either. The timer can start the clock on the touch on the floor and, in my experience, doesn't really look at the officials anyway.

I have to agree here. I don't see too many girl's games around these parts that would 'require' 3 officials.

+1 I was waiting for somebody to say that.

I have two girls DHs this week. 2 officials for both games each night. This assn never has 2 on the BV games. My secondary assn has 3 on ALL V games.

Depends on the timer.....

I lurk here quite a bit. I don't post much because the best answer has usually been given by the time I see a post, but I'll add two cents here since I don't think anyone from Georgia has added anything to this topic.

Here, varsity crews are 3-person, and most assignments are b/g doubleheaders paying $46/game. Sub-varsity is 2-person, usually b/g doubleheader, at $37/game. Some sub-varsity tournaments (very few) use 3-person ($41/gm). In our 2-person crews, T chops the clock in the frontcourt. T is also tableside on FTs.

I'm with Multi-County, and it usually takes an official 3-4 years to work up to varsity, and in that time they will have had to go to camps, and been evaluated by several of our veteran officials. While it's not verbalized, anyone with decent eyes will notice the association prefers its varsity officials to look athletic, and definitely well-groomed. Rules knowledge and a professional attitude are a must.

I've worked varsity in the past, but for personal reasons I've worked sub-varsity for the past few years.