[Back In The Saddle]

Unless I am badly missunderstanding how things work...

Hammerin' Hank is trying hard to standardize stuff. But NCAA refs don't work for him. They are independent contractors work for supervisors (and must be re-hired every year). Supervisors work for conferences, which, unless I miss my guess, really comes down to coaches and AD's and occassionally college presidents (when somebody really gets a bee in their bonnet over something).

So Hank can say what he likes. But he doesn't hire officials and he doesn't write paychecks. So refs answer to supervisors and supervisors answer to conferences. And so successful college officials do what their supervisors tell them. Until the tournament. But even then, the list of officials Hank gets to use comes from the conferences.