Final Four crews
 

In case anybody wanted to know the Final Four crews:

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:

John Cahill
Teddy Valentine
Tom Eades

SATURDAY NIGHT GAMES:

Curtis Shaw
John Higgins
Les Jones
Mike Stuart
Jamie Luckey
Randy McCall.

Alternate is Pat Adams.






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Congrats to all the "chosen ones!"

3rd consecutive FF for John Cahill and 4th out of the last 5 years.

In my opinion he's the best college ref in the country today.

Interesting that Shaw made it. This is his last year as an official before her takes over the head job of officiating for the Big 12.

The only requirement for an assignment in the FF should be whether you have called a T on Koach K in the past two seasons.

Hater.

According to Gottlieb, I'm jealous.

Congrats to all who made it!

According to the conventional wisdom, dolt = Gottlieb, though as usual the conventional wisdom has it backwards (the dependent variable goes on the left). ;)

Three of those guys Shaw, Stuart and Eads started out in Tennessee and all where hired in their first league the OVC by Ralph Stout. Thats pretty cool.

I wonder if Stuart will work the WVU/Duke game, considering his game where he was "in" the WVU huddle and gave Huggy-bear the T a few weeks ago.

I've been impressed by Cahill all season. Not that I'm in a position to be evaluating D1 officials, but the dude can flat out officiate.

I'm still amazed by how much he looks like Bruce Weber (EDIT: From a distance, on TV)

Shaw is awesome by virtue of his ejection of Sammy The Owl! :p

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Butler/Mich St: Les Jones, Mike Stuart, Jamie Luckey

West V/Duke: Curtis Shaw, John Higgins, Randy McCall

Gotta admit. That's great video!

I really like watching Tom Eades. He did a game locally at the beginning of the season and got in a couple of good one-liners on a heckler in the first row right behind the scorer's table. We were sitting next to the guy and it got a good laugh from everyone around.

That is ridiculous. The Duke-WV game was the best officiated game I'd seen all year long. These guys are working the Final 4 because they have the guts to make the right calls. Just because Tim Higgins isn't working the NCAAs, doesn't mean you have to come on here and bad mouth the rest of the officials.

How is it you're qualified to evaluate him to that extent? It's one thing to say he missed a call or called a T when he shouldn't have, those are concrete examples that are easy to pin point; but to claim he's terrible and that John Adams put him in the FF because he's "one of the boys?"

Well, to quote someone who was quoting someone else, "Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots."

Doesn't really sound like him. Are you sure it's a direct quote? :p

"Sources" say it wasn't, so now I may have to retract my statement.
Other than that, the post was accurate.