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Originally Posted by Multiple Sports
Tome -
I agree with what you are saying and I think everyone has made some great
points. Based on what you said, do you think that the NBA training is that
further ahead of the NCAA training or is just that they spent the last 20
years seeing better ball than college officials. Or could it be that every DI
supervisor has his own style and their is real no consistency in the NCAA
game.........
APG - please jump in as well, you always bring a great NBA insight to your posts
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I think a large part of it is as you say...Joe DeRosa and Sean Corbin spent at least 10+ years officiating the highest level of basketball with the best athletes...and they were pretty good at it since DeRosa had worked Finals games before and Corbin worked playoff games himself. I also think with the NCAA adding some NBA-like rules and philosophies/POEs, things like freedom of movement, RA plays, wipeouts at the rim, etc are second nature to them.
Also, in the one or two games I've seen them work, I notice they rotate a lot more readily and quickly compared to partners...a byproduct of them working so long in the NBA where they rotate a lot more quickly/readily...seems to help them get into position a lot more often than not and not have to call across the paint as it seems to often happens in the men's game.
As far as consistency wise, as long as individual supervisors/assignors have the power to hire/fire officials, there will always be inconsistency...heck we can see that when people talk about how games are officiated between the Big 10/Big East versus say the Pac-12. I do think this has improved with the addition of absolutes and adding the RA.