White on your shoes

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Our rules allow white on the shoes.

And a fine rule it is, for your local association.

Here, in my little corner of Connecticut, we are expected to wear all black shoes, and if you don't, you take a chance on any of 325 fellow officials giving you an average, or maybe a below average, rating on "Appearance" which makes up 10% of a nightly rating.

Maybe, some day, my local board will move into the twenty-first century and allow white logos on the shoes.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by ODog

People notice. You can pretend they don't if it makes you feel better about choosing to look sloppy, but it doesn't change the reality.

Wearing black officiating shoes with a white whoosh or three white stripes doesn't make anyone look like sloppy.

If you wear non-black sneakers, white socks, non-black shorts, a belt, sneaks with noticeable white, etc., you look like a hack. Plain and simple.

No one said you should wear non-black sneakers, white socks, non-black shorts or a belt. So please, stop being ridiculous.

Wearing black officiating shoes with a white whoosh or three white stripes doesn't make anyone look like a hack.

There's no two ways about it and the dismissal of such a notion is only done by those who, for reasons all their own, choose not to conform to a very reasonable dress code.

Excuse me that's a very ignorant opinion. MLB, NFL and NBA officials wear shoes with white on them. NCAA officials in a wide range of sports wear shoes with white on them. NFHS soccer, baseball and softball officials have worn white on their shoes for years. It's stupid that this black only be applied to basketball officials. S-t-u-p-i-d.

You may very well officiate a terrific game, but it will be done to the unwitting end of combating a perception that you are a half-assed, slapdick official.

I think I've made my point. So move into the 21st century and stop being a half-assed, slapdick old fart.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by ODog

You may very well officiate a terrific game, but it will be done to the unwitting end of combating a perception that you are a half-assed, slapdick official.

Probably only by people that don't know how to officiate their way out of a wet paper bag. But that's probably as unfair of a generalization as yours.

Times are changing and around here, it really doesn't matter if your shoes have some white on them to those that assign the games.

We're talking about shoes, not belted slacks (which unfairly or not, are judged to a different standard in most places) or white socks.

And just to cut you off at the pass, I wear all black shoes because I am rather limited in the shoes I can wear. I'd wear shoes with white on them if they fit me the best, as I do in football.