Marginally interesting article

[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.