11 pac 12 football refs fired, 16 new hired, basketball refs next?

[Darth Snow]

The hatchet man can. As if expansion and the formation of a conference network wasn't proof enough, here's more evidence that Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott means business around here: After enduring years of a hard-earned reputation for incompetence, the conference is ditching 11 football officials who worked Pac-10 games last year in its transition to the Pac-12 this fall. The outgoing cast will be replaced 16 new officials from the Big 12, Mountain West and WAC, according to interim officiating coordinator Mike Pereira, whose mercenary mission in the role now seems perfectly clear. "I'm not saying [the officiating] was horrible, but it was not at the level that it deserved to be and that this conference deserves to have," he told the Seattle Times. "We felt like these 16 were better than the 11 that did not have their contracts renewed." On the bright side, some of the exiles will be asked to assist in replay booths, and there won't be any ax to grind with Pereira's permanent successor.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...reckoning-for-much-maligned-?urn=ncaaf-329120

 

[sackman]

Replacing them with guys from the Big 12, WAC, and MWC. Coincidence that those are three conferences on their death beds?

The Big 12 officiating wasn't all that great either.

 

[Buffnik]

Pac-12 makes major moves to improve officiating

11 of 42 refs dismissed plus 1 retired.

16 new refs hired away from MWC, WAC and Big 12 to get to 7 crews of 7.

Supervisor for each crew added.

Some crew chiefs being demoted.

Officiating office being opened in Walnut Creek, CA, by the Pac-12 offices.

Constant training with an emphasis on training tapes is being emphasized.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2014380815_officials03.html
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Love it! This conference is doing things the right way.

(Hopefully they'll address the atrocious basketball officiating too.)

 

[Darth Snow]

11 of 42 refs dismissed plus 1 retired.

16 new refs hired away from MWC, WAC and Big 12 to get to 7 crews of 7.

Supervisor for each crew added.

Some crew chiefs being demoted.

Officiating office being opened in Walnut Creek, CA, by the Pac-12 offices.

Constant training with an emphasis on training tapes is being emphasized.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2014380815_officials03.html
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Love it! This conference is doing things the right way.

(Hopefully they'll address the atrocious basketball officiating too.)

Hey now, don't be stealing my thread thunder. Even if your thread was better.

 

[Buffnik]

Hey now, don't be stealing my thread thunder. Even if your thread was better.

:smile2:

Merged.

 

[NashBuff]

I hear that basketball officiating is worse in the Pac-10 than the football ones.

 

[Buffnik]

One thing that was pretty good from the article was that a number of the new refs are from Colorado or Utah. That's a big reason the conference was able to attract them without offering a pay increase. So not only better refs, but no Pac-10 bias against the new guys.

 

[SBG]

Replacing them with guys from the Big 12, WAC, and MWC. Coincidence that those are three conferences on their death beds?

The Big 12 officiating wasn't all that great either.

Just because a ref is from the WAC or MWC doesn't mean they aren't good. Perhaps they just haven't had their shot yet. I would imagine that most ref jobs are "tenured." It's probably hard to move up. What I do like about this is that it's going to force all leagues to try and have equal reffing. With most refs making little at the college level and very little support, I welcome our new Pac12 overlords.

Oh, and Clete Blakeman is in the league now. That's a travesty. There are bad refs everywhere.

 

[SINKRATZ]

Please tell me Clete Blakeman isn't one of the 16 coming over.

 

[sackman]

Please tell me Clete Blakeman isn't one of the 16 coming over.

He's in the "league", meaning the NFL. I hope there's a protacted lockout just for him.