NCAA Women's Tournament Officials

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Rich

Look, the NCAA (and other organizations) can do what they want, but how less better can women be and still advance quickly on the women's side? It works both ways, you know...

If the playing field isn't level, then perhaps all women's and girls' games should be left to only female officials....

Me? I'm an assigner and an official. I'll hire any woman that's capable to work. But I won't fast track anyone based on anything other than ability.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

One of the problems with this who is assigned, is female officials often get college opportunities they would never get at the same rate on any other level. There was a female officials that worked the McDonald's All-American game this past year that only had like 3 or 4 years total officiating experience. There is hardly any such equivalent on the Men's side regardless of gender. And when a female officials is snatched up, they are given a full schedule of college. Heck I would rather work for $160 or more on a regular basis too, instead of working for $60 in a similarly packed gym.

It is also very rare that female officials get assigned the boy's side, but heck they hardly do high school anyway if they are moved as fast as they often are moved.

Peace

Well, here in good ole VA, I have seen at least 3 good female officials get denied boys HS games, while some horrible, and I mean horrible, male officials get top of the line games.

What I do know, is that if the conversation were about blacks not getting certain assignments, the phrase "race card" would have jumped off a couple folks keyboards real quick. What makes complaining about a lack of males getting certain assignments any different than a lack of blacks getting certain assignments?

To me it's playing the "gender card".