Jim Burr???

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Jim Burr:

Sat 2/2 DePaul 80 Notre Dame 89

Sun 2/3 Northwestern 63 Indiana 75

Mon 2/4 Louisville 71 Marquette 57

Tue 2/5 Penn State 53 Purdue 67

Thu 2/7 Rhode Island 76 Massachusetts 78

Sat 2/9 Cincinnati 72 Rutgers 68 (OT)

Sun 2/10 Indiana 59 Ohio State 53

Tue 2/12 Providence 63 Pittsburgh 82

Wed 2/13 Louisiana State 85 Florida 73

Thu 2/14 Georgia Tech 67 Clemson 82

Sat 2/16 Minnesota 56 Wisconsin 65

11 games in 15 days. Wow!

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

11 games in 15 days. Wow!

A light schedule for Welmer, who probably worked 15 games in 15 days.

[JRutledge]

Burr is on the Ohio State-Michigan game right now.

Peace

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Burr is on the Ohio State-Michigan game right now.

Peace

Yup. Was he the one who signalled travelling on an inbounding play??

Ugh.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Yup. Was he the one who signalled travelling on an inbounding play??

Ugh.

I love when people get all upset over this. And the big dogs will continue to do it and not really care what any of us think.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I love when people get all upset over this. And the big dogs will continue to do it and not really care what any of us think.

Exactly.

Peace

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I love when people get all upset over this. And the big dogs will continue to do it and not really care what any of us think.

I'm not upset. When I'm upset, "Ugh" isn't how I express it. It's just that for every "travel" call in a TV game, there will be 10 more explanations needed for calls that I don't make in one of my games. Ugh.

[zebraman]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I love when people get all upset over this. And the big dogs will continue to do it and not really care what any of us think.

That might not be true. I'm pretty good friends with a pretty big dog. I went to one of his games recently and he incorrectly signaled travel on the thrower who violated the wide of the spot throw-in boundary. I asked him about it afterwards and he said, "what's the proper signal?" He was actually a little embarrassed (he did it because he saw another big dog do it that way long ago) and will not do it again.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

A light schedule for Welmer, who probably worked 15 games in 15 days.

Actually, he worked 12 games in those same 15 days.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Actually, he worked 12 games in those same 15 days.

I worked 9 (but 3 games were postponed due to the weather, which rarely happens at that level).

I'm amazed at how many games these guys work, but since it's all they do, it's probably easier than it seems on them.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

11 games in 15 days. Wow!

I'm in the middle of a stretch of 9 games in 11 days; but mine are high school and D3 NCAA.

[BktBallRef]

9 games in 7 days for me.

[JRutledge]

If I work more than 4 games in a seven day period, that is a lot for me. Working 3 is the norm (not including Thanksgiving and Christmas Tournaments)

Peace

[mightyvol]

I usually work 4-5 nights a week of Varsity basketball here in Minnesota. Enjoy the heck out of it, I look forward to each game because it presents new challenges each night.

[BillyMac]

I officiated about 60 games so far this season, not counting scrimmages, starting in mid December. About half are boys and girls varsity high school games. The other half are Catholic middle school games. I have looked forward, and still look forward, to every game that I officiate. However, I notice that every season, about this time, mid-February, my mind starts to wander, pointing the wrong direction for out of bounds, forgeting alternating possession directions, etc. The other night I found myself reporting to the table, "Blue, Four, Block", while holding up three fingers. No physical problems, just mental lapses. Other than camps, that's why I seldom do offseason ball. I don't think that my brain can handle more than three months of officiating in a calendar year.