Tim Higgins

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Just saw the Rutgers coach who was interviewed and he made what I thought were the right noises (basically that a mistake was made, that he made several mistakes as did his players during the course of the game). Nice to see at least one person keeping his head during what many will be going nuts about.

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.