Just Another Day at the Office.
 

There is going to be a lot of finger pointing:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/28921192/

MTD, Sr.

I wonder how this happened?

Peace

Ooops.

Since when is the home school responsible for hiring the officials at the Div. I level. I do not know of any Div. III or NAIA school in Ohio that hires their own officials.

MTD, Sr.

Like I'm the guy who knows?!?! :p :D

I agree though; what seems logical to me is that the conference schedules officials.

Jugs:

You are getting awful cheeky for someone who lives near Dog River, sorta, :D.

MTD, Sr.

Have you seen Corner Gas, Mark? I can't believe they are "going out on top" after only 6 seasons. They've got more good seasons left in them. Oh well. people smarter than I make those decisions.

Jugs:

I watch Corner Gas, on WGN (our cable company carries WGN). I like it.

MTD, Sr.

That show has been around for SIX seasons?? :eek:
Is that three episodes per season? I keep seeing the same one.

Opportunity Lost?
 

If only a couple of us had been present.......with our bags in our vehicles! :D

Switch the TV input from "PVR" to "cable".

I switched from PBR many years ago. ;)

BTW, when I was coaching D-II some of the smaller schools (NAIA) would hire their own local officials...and it wasn't pretty!

Maybe in the SWAC, the home school is responsible for hiring officials if it's a non-conference game?

It was my understanding that at the DI level...especially the major programs...that a non-conference contract to play a game or a series of games specifies a lot of things. One thing is guaranteed money (which is mentioned in the article) and usually there is a deal on splitting the gate, and one of the things that the coaches try to write in is officials. Sometimes they just agree on something as simple as a crew assigned by the visiting team's conference, but other times they have a specific list of officials that are acceptable to both teams and the home team is responsible for securing them (usually through the host school's conference assignor)

This process was written about (briefly) in Season on the Brink, the John Feinstein book that spent a season with Indiana and Bob Knight.

I'm thinking the SWAC's position is that since it was a non-conference game that GSU was responsible for notifying the SWAC Supervisor of Officials to schedule officials for the game or GSU could have secured officials on its own.