And you're proud of that? You're also the one who's crapped all over Ted Hillary, Steve Welmer and a few other officials in the course of your posting history.

What D1 conferences have you worked in?

A good share of bigjake's threads deal with concerns he has about certain officials. I think he wants to skenk their games from them.

I wouldn't say Adams is a jerk but I do agree that his comments were inappropriate. He should have "no commented" all 3 officials and saved his comments for Art Hyland.

I know Mike Rice very well from my coaching days. I was a varsity assistant and our HC had close ties to him and I coached at his Eastern Invitational camps for several summers.

In the few times I've seen him since I stopped coaching he's given me a hard time about my choice to officiate. But he is a very good coach and "gets it" when it comes to how hard officiating really is. I imagine he could be a handful during games b/c he likes to talk and drops F bombs in just about every sentence. But that's when he's talking to other coaches and just in general. I've never been around him when he's coaching a real game.

As for the crew, I have no clue how much impact this will have on their officiating futures. This was a pretty bad miss in a relatively big spotlight. We all miss calls but as John Adams said, "not officiating to the end of a game is unacceptable." It will be interesting to see the ramifications from this.

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What makes you think Art Hyland wouldn't want them working in the conference next year?

Only 3 Jakes on Statsheet. Only one worked in the OVC. I doubt Dr. Jake Bell would take time from supervising the A-Sun to come here and bang on officials.

Any one mention that the two coaches did not coach until the end of the game either.

You do sound like a big prick.

I guess I wonder why Adams has an opinion at all. This is a *conference* matter and it would've been nice to see the conference supervisor interviewed instead of him. As long as officials are independent contractors and not employees of the NCAA, the only thing Adams can do is not hire these guys for the tourney.

What would you call someone who would make comments like this *without ever seeing the play or even a recording of the play*?

I don't know but if you read Rice's comments he talked about mistakes that he, his staff, and his players made and did not take what would have been an easy route and focus on the officials.

And as an official, it does not matter one bit that the coaches didn't coach until the end of the game (whatever that means). Bottom line is that was a REALLY bad miss at the end of the game by this crew. We all miss calls but one of the main points that they guy who trained me stressed was to always officiate to the end of the game. It seems that this crew did not do that today.

A Sports radio call in host?

I don't feel it's inappropriate for the coordinator of men's basketball to have a comment on the play if asked.

Without seeing the play? The right thing would've been to say, "I'll have a comment after I see the video."

Well you said it was a conference matter and you would have rather the conference supervisor have comment. While it's totally acceptable for him to comment, I don't see a problem with John Adams having an opinion (I'm talking in general here. If it's true that he didn't see the play first, and I have a hard time believe that, then he should have waited to comment).