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What you think of Bobby Knight's comments about officials?
Was watching interviews the other day and caught Bobby Knight's on ESPN, they were talking about the officials, surprise. He suggested that games would be officiated a lot better if our officials were more fresh for the games. He says some guys call 5 some 6 nights a week and are worn out by this and just barely make it through some games. He said that we should limit our college games to 2 maybe 3 at most a week to have better called games. What does everyone think about that? I know it makes a lot of sense in a way, but do we have enough officials to cover so many games if we limit them to just 3 a week? probably not possible.
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Bobby Knight <strike>doesn't think his proposals through</strike> is an idiot.
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I couldn't care less what Bobby Knight thinks, says or does when he's alone in the bathroom.
I will say that the fact that one D-1 official worked a game every single day from November 14th until December 22nd is absolutely ridiculous. The human body can only do so much. Perhaps that partially explains why he's out for the rest of the year with a fractured foot. |
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Oh, the NCAA isn't willing to spend that kind of money on officiating? What a shock!! That means that the officials are still independent contractors and can work as many games as assignors will offer them. |
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The thing is when Knight was coaching, there would be officials that work 5-6 games a week work his games. At that time he could stop, it a least for himself, and his team, by tell the assignor what he wanted. And for some reason he did not stop it.
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there really seems to be the same officials out there who do the games over and over again. Get some new blood in and yes there should be a limit of the number of games. 4 a week should be max.
----but yeah Knight is an idiot. I actually like Lavin better than him on tv. |
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Agree completely. The only time this becomes an issue is when there is a controversial call and the coaches/media then complain about the number of games an official is working. Remember Jim Bain in the 90's working two conference finals in one day (he flew his own private plane to the 2nd game) and only because he made a controversial game deciding call in the 2nd game was there an issue with it. |
Why is it so different for college officials? Don't NBA officials work 5-6 nights a week? Most people work 5 days a week. I don't see the point.
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How about a sliding scale based upon age? (That ought to stir the pot. http://www.runemasterstudios.com/gra...il-naughty.gif )
Official's age: Max number of games per week: 20s 5 30s 4 40s 3 50s 2 60s 1 |
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