We were both right, I couldn't remember how many days were required.
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"A source said the 10 preselected officials with Final Four assignments are:
John Cahill Pat Driscoll Verne Harris John Higgins Les Jones Jamie Luckie Antinio Petty Doug Shows Michael Stephens Mark Whitehead" This from a blog post ripping Jim Burr: Source: Burr will not work Final Four - CBSSports.com |
What?!? Where's Teddy V?
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And considering Burr didn't work the 2nd weekend why is CBSSports.com reporting Burr's absense from the Final Four as some kind of breaking news? :rolleyes: |
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According to yahoo sports, at least, the NCAA itself revealed the 10 who drew the assignments; the article implies it was done to increase transparency in light of the public discussion of officiating in the last few weeks. Guys in stripes have own bracket - College Basketball - Rivals.com
The weirdest part of the article is this: "Game assignments for the first semifinal will be announced an hour before tip-off of that game. Assignments for the second semifinal will be announced at halftime of the first game, and the officials for the national championship game will be announced an hour before that contest. No official works more than one game during the weekend." Once the crew gets announced for the second semi-final at halftime of the first, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to be able to figure out who the crew for the final will be. Isn't it a pretty signficant departure for the NCAA to have the names of the championship officials out there in the public for 48 hours? I know that traditionally, they are not even supposed to be on site until after the semis. Though it's not always a particularly closely guarded secret, I thought they were worried about public perception that coaches would coach to a particular official or crazy conspiracy theories about vegas dudes with paper bags of money. |
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That's the actual text from the announcement that John Adams posted on the NCAA Central Hub, the article is quoting it word-for-word. |
So, it appears that one guy will be the "alternate". Unless, someone works a semi and the final.
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Take it for what it is worth! So far this tournament has been financially advantageous for me!! The same can not be said about my bracket LOL |
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Couple first timers in Petty and Stephens. Nice to see some new blood.
As for all the Burr-bashing. In the infamous Rutgers game - it was neither Burr nor Tim Higgins that were the primary official in what I think are the biggest f-ups in the dying minutes of that game: (1) the obvious rebounding foul that was passed on (C on the play was up above the 3pt line when the foul occurred off a missed FT), but positioned way too high IMO), and another foul on the hail mary pass at the end where the Rutgers guy is basically knocked down. Earl Walton was the closest official on both those plays - but Higgins and Burr got all the vitriol. Not defending any of them - but Walton kind of got off scott-free in the court of public opinion IMO. |
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