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A more appropriate request of CBS is to get together with the NCAA just as FOX and CBS have done with the NFL. After years of butchering the football rules on TV broadcasts, the NFL now makes a hotline available to the supervisor of officiating so that announcers can get an accurate rules clarification. I think the NCAA should make Hank Nichols, or somebody with similar knowledge available to CBS for the tournament. Of course, this would mean the egomaniacal Packer might actually get corrected on a few of his incorrect observations. We should never expect annoucers to side with the officials on 50-50 judgment calls, but it does a disservice to the game for the annoucers to falsely "call out" the officials for "blowing a rule" when they clearly don't know or misunderstand the rules, because that misinformation becomes the "law of the land" for everyone else watching the broadcast.
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