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Originally Posted by Chess Ref
Sounds good to me. Though I'm even more confused by the Jamie comment. It could be that I'm just confused.
Race was only 1 of 6 reasons that I mentioned.
Oh well there is the Girls Ball versus Boys ball thread going on.  |
OK, I will explain myself. I have heard the notion that black guys are needed and get hired. However, there are relatively few black guys doing the TV game - I'm talking about comparing them to other officials. Even when you talk about those black guys - Hightower, Valentine, Green - they have been doing this for a long time so where are all those black officials who supposedly got hired because they are black? I believe in a perfect world guys should get hired based on skill - my world is perfect.
To be fair and accurate I must also mention that while all this was going on the NBA and college basketball was being flooded by John Guthrie clones which are not these black officials - I can pick someone out who went to Guthrie's camps just from watching them run.
I mentioned Jamie because I know him (he is one of my references), I think he is one of the best officials in college and...he was on TV at the time I posted.
For me this shouldn't be about race; I'm a black official, but if someone can officiate I will give them credit no matter what color. I have a lot of white friends - I say that as a joke!