Marginally interesting article

[scrounge]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

Jetmet-
you read my mind.here games are assigned for the most part as doubleheaders
JV Girls 3PM
JV Boys 4:30 PM
Varsity Girls 6PM
Varsity Boys 7:30 PM

A team of 2 comes in and works both JV games,followed by another team of 2 for varsity.One home date this year was varsity only and that had one official assigned to both with a lady coming in for the girls game and a guy replacing her for the boys game.

Do you ever have trouble getting officials for such early games? I can't even make 4:30 games very often, I can't imagine getting there at 2:30 or earlier for a game on a weekday.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

no although a lot of times the JV officials will show up about 20 minutes prior to tip.I've had only a couple of JV officials show up even 45 minutes prior to tip.

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by scrounge

Do you ever have trouble getting officials for such early games? I can't even make 4:30 games very often, I can't imagine getting there at 2:30 or earlier for a game on a weekday.

NYC publics start the vast majority of Varsity games at 4:30P (used to be 4P). Some guys have issues but those are the same guys who'd probably be late for a 6P tip as well.

[just another ref]

"To add a third one, if he or she isn't good, then by all means no, we don't want three. I don't want a one (the highest rating for an official) trying to overcompensate for a four or five (lower-rated officials)."

I've heard this before. Schools don't want to provide paid training time for the new official on the crew on a given night. Hard to blame them for this.

Then they get to the boys level, and if they have to come back and do girls, they're not nearly as good as when all they could do were girls' games.

I find this hard to believe, unless some of the guys do adopt the attitude that they are now above calling the girls game and obviously dog it. For the most part, I think it's more a case of ugly basketball makes for ugly officiating.

.....it's almost unfair to ask the girls to play all season with two officials and then adjust to three in the tournament.

And this is just a crock.

[JRutledge]

It is hard enough to keep up with a tough boys game on one night and I do not know how I would be able to be focused to work a girls game in the same night (different talent level, different style of play and different expectations).

So glad we do not do that crap around here or we have gotten away from that stuff. I think all this double header stuff makes people decide not to officiate in the first place. Maybe this is why in basketball there is almost no shortage.

Peace