| JRutledge |
Sat Feb 02, 2008 01:58am |
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Originally Posted by mightyvol
Ahhh B.S. There are plenty of others out there that are capable. Im not buying this B.S one minute. How the hell else are the other young guns supposed to get exposure when he does every damn game?
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I am not asking you to buy anything. But the young gun officials are not up for his games. It is a numbers game and Welmer like Hightower, Burr, Ted Higgins (and the other Higgins) are at the top of the food chain. Officials trying to break in are lucky if they get non-conference game between the worst team of the league and a team with so many hyphens that you did not even know that was a school with that name. If Welmer works in the Big 12 on any night in that conference that leaves 5 other games and 15 other officials working games on a particular night or afternoon. And Welmer is not working the two worst teams in that conference, he is working the big game of the night that is featured on national television. Games that are on national TV are not games that do not feature the top teams or the best match-ups in that conference. That is why you are not seeing a bunch of games on ESPN with Nebraska or Iowa State on a regular basis.
I will give you a better example. Last year Ed Hightower got a bad knee injury and Hightower was out almost the entire year. Guess who replaced him? It was not young officials that barely worked in those big time conferences. He was replaced with other officials that had been working in those leagues for years and might have picked up a game or two individually to cover the hole left by Hightower. And if you do not believe me, just look up the information on the Basketball State website and you can look at the schedules of many officials across the country. There are a lot of names on that list and you will see that Welmer is not the only one working games.
Peace |
