Pac-12 Officiating

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Well working in those states are right around other smaller mid-major conferences. And if you work in the Big 12, you also work for the same person that assigns smaller conferences in the back yard of all those states. So if you get a game in those states, you are in many cases a short drive from other D1 games even games not assigned by the Big 12 Supervisor. Going to Oregon or Arizona is not going to be very easy to work a smaller conference D1 game. Remember not everyone works basketball full time and working a game and getting back the next day might be a problem if you live in the Midwest and East trying to work a Pac 12 game. I cannot think of any Midwestern official that works the Pac 12 on a regular basis. I am sure there is someone, I just do not know who they would be and that includes the big timers.

The guys they want to see are on the road 25+ days a month already, so I don't think 9-to-5 rqmts would be a problem. I'm sure, as you pointed out, it has more to do with having games to work before and after to make the entire trip more profitable.

It would probably take some cooperation in scheduling the WCC, MWC, WAC, & PAC 12 on opposite nights and those coordinators all picking up some of the same officials to get some of the big names to cross the Continental Divide.