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When is comes to mentoring, Vegas isn't different than other places. In order for mentoring to be effective, someone has to want to be mentored. There are officials in Vegas who don't listen when someone tries to help them. I was scrambling to get officials at Easter and I kept asking the question, "Who is an up and coming official I can get to work with us that wasn't here when I left?" The answer, from more than one person, was nobody.
Plus, Vegas is just a strange town in some aspects. Some in the basketball community shy away from Vegas because of the whole gambling thing. Many officials work in the gaming industry and some supervisors don't want to deal with that.
The "hotbed" you mention is tournaments that are often officiated by officials working camps like the SEC and NBA.
There is one men's official from Vegas who is in the Mountain West. One official who is in the Big Sky. One official who is in the Big West and West Coast (he moved to Vegas or else he wouldn't be in). Four Pac-10 officials live in Vegas. These aren't all different guys, just a count of how the conferences are represented in Vegas.
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