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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef
I know of a guy in Virginia Beach who works the Big XII (just worked his first Final Four) and another guy who lives in South Carolina (never been past the first weekend) who works in the Big XII. So I don't think it's travel logistics that's keeping guys from Texas/Nebraska/Oklahoma/Kansas/Iowa from working in the PAC 12. I think there is something else at play here. (what it is I don't know)
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Well working in those states are right around other smaller mid-major conferences. And if you work in the Big 12, you also work for the same person that assigns smaller conferences in the back yard of all those states. So if you get a game in those states, you are in many cases a short drive from other D1 games even games not assigned by the Big 12 Supervisor. Going to Oregon or Arizona is not going to be very easy to work a smaller conference D1 game. Remember not everyone works basketball full time and working a game and getting back the next day might be a problem if you live in the Midwest and East trying to work a Pac 12 game. I cannot think of any Midwestern official that works the Pac 12 on a regular basis. I am sure there is someone, I just do not know who they would be and that includes the big timers.
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