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Have to agree with BNR on this one. If you are going to limit your pool of officials by geography, then there is no way you can claim you are getting the best officials for your games. Especially when you figure population and number of officials in each geographical area into the equation, statistics would indicate you are losing out on more top officials than you have access to. Doesnt mean there isnt quality officials out west or that they are in need of any rescuing, but it is foolish to think the pac12 is getting the best officials in the country on their games when they are not using many officials from the majority of the country.
I also dont buy the travel excuse when it comes to the top officials. As was already stated, those guys are on the road 25+ days a month already. Would it be inconvenient for them to go to the west coast, probably a little. But lets not pretend that they couldnt pick up games in some of the mid-major conferences while they are there. These guys can get games from a mid-major assignor on any night they want with just a phone call. They wouldnt have any problem scheduling a series of games out west all in a week that would allow them to take one big trip and couple it with numerous smaller trips.
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