Welmer out...

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Originally Posted by doubleringer

...but I'd take a Welmer on his 25th day in a row before a lot of other officials. That guy knows how to run a game.

Originally Posted by RichMSN

And his assignors and schools like the way he does it, too.

Originally Posted by fiasco

It wouldn't seem that the people assigning post-season games do though....

Originally Posted by biz

He's been laboring running for the last decade, but the coaches and the conference assignors obviously love him.

For my money I think he calls a good game, but one has to wonder if he had scaled down his schedule, like some of his contemporaries (Higgins and Burr to name two), he might have been able to avoid some of the injuries.

Originally Posted by fiasco

From everything I've read, he's not exactly thrilled with the prospect of going down as the best ref never to work the Big Dance...

1. He makes a lot of money and I can't fault him for that one bit.
2. He is well liked by coaches and players.
3. From an officiating standpoint he just isn't that good. His calls are just a little less obvious than what Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles would call. I'm talking about from a scientific standpoint, which is where the game is going.
4. With Dale Kelly losing some conferences and his injuries, he may never make it back to where he once was. I wonder what Curtis Shaw thinks of him. At any rate, I don't think he will be hurting for money if he hangs them up right now. I think he also runs and/or owns a golf course or two.