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Old Tue Jan 19, 2010, 03:18pm
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Was reading an article from some newspaper about rough play in the ACC and one of the commentators mentioned that one reason calling physical play is so inconsistent across the country is because each official is an independent contractor not bound by a single organization to train and enforce training/rules, etc (like the NBA).

In terms of consistency, as well as pay and number of games officiated, what is your opinion on the NCAA creating a Division-wide accreditation and assigning body to cover all basketball officials, kind of the way the NBA does it? You get hired by the NCAA, become an employee and make a “salary” and the NCAA governs all of your training, certification, rules interpretation, etc etc.

This is not a discussion of if it will ever happen, but should it.....If it did happen do you think you would see more consistent officiating across the country, especially if, as a result, you had more officials doing different games in different conferences rather than specializing in one or two conferences as they do now....
No it shouldn't happen.

And the part bolded above is not correct. Each conference has a supervisor and the officials in any conference are answerable to the conference supervisor who in turn has to answer to the conference commissioner.

There are 334 D1 basketball programs. Do you really think it feasible for one ogranization to be solely responsible for all the officials needed to covers all the games?
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Old Tue Jan 19, 2010, 03:21pm
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There are 334 D1 basketball programs. Do you really think it feasible for one ogranization to solely responsible for all the officials needed to covers all the games?
I dunno. That's...you know...why I started the thread. To talk about it.
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Old Tue Jan 19, 2010, 04:54pm
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The IRS would love it! They can make the Authority (whatever it is) withhold Income, Social Security, and Medicare taxes, and be responsible for forwarding them to the IRS quarterly. States could require the Authority to carry Workman's Comp.

That's why, I think, they will remain Independent Contractor's
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