Gerald Bordeaux replaced
 

Heard SEC did not want him back and was not re hired???

Who is Bordeaux?

Now Where Is That Pic?
 

Apparently he's an unemployed former, wait for it..... SEC official.

I heard he was replaced too...

Do you mean Boudreaux?

Red Or White ???
 

I'm sure that you meant to type, "What".

A Bordeaux is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France.

More than likely. It's common for Americans to remove the "u".

And mouve the "r".

From the Louve?

I have it on good authority that Curtis and John approved of this move while discussing it over whiskey sours in the skybox.

I guess he didn't survive
 

The comments posted with the ESPN article for your amusement.

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Msmilie051
Get the hell out of town, Boudreaux!
1 Hour Ago
uwildofcatsk78
If he is the reason why the officiating is so bad in the men's hoops, please by all means boot his $@% to the door. It's ridiculous how much money this conference makes on football and we can't afford a few good refs? The FF officiating was unbelievably bad. Somebody throw a yellow flag on the basketball court.
1 Hour Ago
ukjonky
Boudreaux was an AWFUL ref and it would not surprise me a bit if it were to surface the reason is how blatantly terrible SEC basketball officials have been for years, and the officiating debacle that was the ENTIRE 2013 Final Four. Greene, Shows and Hibbert are three of the worst and had no business with the assignment in the first place. Embarrassing for the conference, really.
2 Hours Ago
HogCall_com
The article shows up as a Basketball article. Does this affect Football too? SEC refs are notorious for favoring the higher seeded team!!!
2 Hours Ago
rolltide78980
Thank The Lord. SEC refs suck
2 Hours Ago
ricodeque
He was parks recreation director in Lafayette LA was kinda arrogant!
2 Hours Ago
stevensissweet
Not necessarily referee related. Supposedly the guy was a pain to work with and the SEC higher ups didn't get along with him.
2 Hours Ago

If I wanted to read that tripe, I'd read it on the link itself. (Written as a member, not a mod.)

That's an option? :D

Some of you moderators are beginning to be annoying. Get over yourself(ves).
(written as a concerned member)

Hence why I added the statement I did. I don't care from a moderator point of view that he added those, I just personally didn't care to see it on an officiating forum.

As always, feel free to address concerns regarding moderating to Brad.

He could have meant to type "where".

Thank you for being a fan/member of the Official Forum.

Serious question in a not-so-serious thread:
Are you making a joke, or a serious point?

This wouldn't have even been a story on ESPN, if it wasn't for the Ed Rush situation.....

SEC just chose to go another way.....

On an unrelated note...The SEC just hired Ed Rush and Tim Donaughy as travel secretary and committee on increased scoring

The reason behind Boudreax's firing is much worse - a common polarizing subject - than the Ed Rush situation.

I would like to add that the comments about moderator/member were made because most of us know the moderators are officials and members also. I have never thought, "Oh, Joe Blow made that comment as a moderator". Now, I'm not on here enough to read things that would suggest there is more to it than that so...

Point taken. I just didn't want it to be construed as anything other than my personal opinion.

Sure... and the majority of the time that makes sense.

But I'm sure you can also see the reason he wrote that. "If I wanted to read that tripe, I'd read it on the link itself. (Written as a member, not a mod.) "

If he said that without a disclaimer, someone might think he meant it as a mod, and infer that users are not supposed to post comments from sites ... or some such. He wanted to be overly clear that this particular post was personal opinion, and not moderator-driven.

I tread the same line sometimes... most of the time I'm here simply as a member. But I've deleted posts I've made when I read them back and they take on a different tone than I intended if someone read them as if coming from a moderator.

And, thank you for being such a great moderator. This is a good example of the shit that I'm talking about.

So have you communicated your concerns, or do you just want to issue vague complaints to the internet?

Um... what?

A change in coordinator of officials for men's basketball in a D1 conference is always a story — especially for a big conference like the SEC. Pretty sure every change similar to this one has been reported in the past.

Also, everyone be nice to each other! If anyone has complains about the mods, feel free to email me directly … [email protected]

Overall, I think they are doing a fantastic job. Like officiating, however, it is a thankless one with a bunch of people looking to criticize them no matter what they do.

What is the reason behind it? I've heard rumblings about some stuff happening in the upper stratosphere of Men's officiating from a close friend but he won't fill me in on the details until I see him in camp at the end of the month.

Be careful or your posts will start being deleted....just had my first ejection and I didn't even use profanity. Hardly worthy of the delete, maybe a TF. These mods are going over board :(

Ok, you wanted us to take everything private. We discussed it and agreed with your assessment, so I removed all the public references to the issue. Doing so, I deleted several posts from the mods (including my own) and a couple from the owner (Brad). Please feel free to contact me privately with any concerns, you'll likely get more information that way.

We're trying to strike a balance of doing everything above board, yet keeping private stuff in private.

You can call me, text me or email me and I will tell you what I know. I have second hand information and the subject is too volatile for me to mention it here.

...but if you keep poking I will keep dropping hints...:D

Haha

My info would be 2nd hand also. Funny you talk about it being too volatile to mention here. My source didn't want to put anything in an email, said he'd only tell me face-to-face. His comments were before Boudreaux fired. He said some mess was going on. He didn't say what it concerned (other than the Pac 12 story wasn't over), but his buddy is a big dawg in the SEC amongst other conferences.

Had to replace my phone this week so I lost all my numbers. I'll message you on Facebook.

We don't need everything thread turned into something about the mods. Keep to the subject. If you want to complain, you have my email.

I keep hearing this said ... but with zero details. The story seems pretty over to me, especially since those that keep acting like there is some other smoking gun don't have a clue as to what it is.

Theres no transparency when it comes to people saying a particular ref is awlful. We dont see their ratings on how they go there. We nitpick at the missed/no calls, and then trash them on the board. It makes no sense to me. People just want to trash other people and not be honest.

Seems that some of the officials(sources) are disputing the PAC 12 finding that Rush was joking. They are saying he was serious, and the PAC 12 is looking again.

They have said that from the first article — doesn't make it true necessarily either.

"After considering the matter, commissioner Scott and I agree that an independent review is important to maintain the confidence of our members, and of the public, in the integrity of our competition"

I consider this completely standard — seems prudent so that they can put everything behind them.