Gene Steratore
 

I had no idea that the white hat in the New England playoff game also does D-1. He worked 4 d-1 games this week prior to his playoff game. Statsheet also has him listed as working a game on the 9th, the day before the football game.

There is an nfl official who lives in my area and he says that they have to be there at the game the day before so how does this work when he is doing a basketball game the day before?

Anyone else have some interesting information of some officials who work at high levels in more than 1 sport?

And his brother, who I believe is on his crew, works the NCAA Women's side.

Jon Bible is a Division I baseball umpire and Big XII football crew chief. He's also a Referee in the UFL.

I could be wrong, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say he was in New England on Saturday and probably wasn't working college basketball.

There was an interesting article in Referee that followed a crew and gave some insight on how the crew prepares. The article mentioned they have to be there a day before. So for a Sunday game the crew has to be there Saturday. In their Saturday meeting (in the article it takes place in the afternoon), they go over game film and other items the league has sent their crew. Very interesting read if you get a chance.

I was just looking on StatSheet at his schedule for the week to see where he was at. StatSheet is sometimes incorrect so that may be the case. It said he was at Buffalo yesterday for a basketball game against Miami (OH). Maybe he could get away with it since he was right in the area.

I know what article you were referring to in Referee magazine that's why I wondered how he could do that, then I looked at where the game was at and it was in the New England area.

Rough life for an officail. I'd hate to see anyone go through that

According to the Miami(OH) box score, it lists Gene Steratore as one of the referees.

MIAMI (OHIO) OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE - Men's Basketball


Wiki entry: Gene Steratore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hmmm, ok.. I wonder what time this game tipped?

4PM Eastern

Hmm, well that's interesting. I'm sure the NFL knew where he was and gave him the thumbs up.

By the way, in his second playoff game as a Referee, I thought Gene and his crew had a solid game.

I thought it was very interesting that the announcer's brought it up. Even mys son said that was very cool. :cool:

I thought his crew had a good game today too.

Rough? Go through that? A $5000 - $10,000 weekend! LOL! I'm quite sure he loves it!!

My guess would be the crew flew in Friday and took care of all their required pre-game work with time to spare.

BTW, I do wish he would pull his sleeves down on his wrist.

His brother, Tony, is the back judge on Jerome Boger's crew. (Referee Magazine-Jan. 2010 issue, Pg.21)

That explains why his mechanics are so much smoother and easier to look at than some NFL white hats. Mike Carey's herky jerky motions are painful to watch.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this when watching Carey.

Are you talking about the same Mike "I point 2 different directions when I signal who the penalty is on" Carey?

Steratore's mechanics are definitely the smoothest I see from the NFL white hats. I think his basketball background has a lot to do with that. I think it's also his personality. He is a very cool cat in person.

Or the way he flips off his microphone. Like he's snapping his fingers with bravado.

They had a challenge by the Ravens yesterday about if Flacco got the first down or not and his explanation we excellent. Very smooth on the mic.

Bill Carollo former NFL white hat and a Super bowl official was a Big Ten basketball official, but not at the same time.

Gene
 

I know Gene personally, he is a great guy. He helped me a lot when I began to officiate. I was also coaching college at the time and we would have him on our games from time to time and he would spend an hour or so before he got ready for the game to talk to me about how my games were going, what I was doing well, what I was struggling with. He is just a great guy and IMO the Best football official out there.

He looks as smooth as Dino. Must be the Italian thing.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s4kKiT-Jha...AAAAaA/PlAGZIl

Still have to give him hell over the "first down, wait - the chains weren't fully stretched - okay, not actually a first down" play.