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Originally Posted by johnny d
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.
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So using your own logic, the conferences in the east are not getting the best officials because they are not hiring people from the west either. And why aren't they hiring them? Because of the travel costs involved.