Big 10 game fee
 

What is the game fee for a Big 10 game official? If someone on a Big 10 crew had to miss a game where would the replacement come from?

The assigner!

Each crew is assigned an alternate.

Is there any way they would go down to the high school level and pick up a replacement?

Highly doubtful. I don't think there are D1 conference officials who also work Friday nights.

Anybody confirm?

There might be, but I doubt they're working BCS conference games.

I would imagine that they have a roster of supplemental officials just working their way in from say the MAC or Gateway. If it is like the ACC, they will work these officials in non-conference games against lower level teams to gain experience and eventually be conference officials.

They can if they are not affected by there normal game. We have several in our association that do from time to time. If they are off that Saturday or if a game is on an off night they will sometime. Maybe other conferences have a direct rule but I do not believe they do in the Big 10.

Peace

Sure they can and yes, they do.

My main WH this season retired from the SEC several years ago. Unless he was at LSU or Miss. St. on Saturday, he normally worked on Friday night.

My WH that I worked with Thursday night works regularly in SoCon.

Same here. Mostly Big 12, WAC, Sunbelt, Southland, and Mountain West. The guys on a crew and with a pretty full schedule, though, don't work HS varsity games. The rest don't usually work on a HS crew -- they fill in certain HS games. A limited few are on a crew but give back a substantial part of the HS schedule.

I think the L in the Wisconsin/Illinois game was carted off the field...you talk about it and it will happen.

I thought it was NW @ Penn St? Or did we have two go down.

The COC assigns in order: The Big Ten, MAC, Mizz Valley and some Pioneer. They have a tier system in place to move officials up from within those ranks. The area D2 and D3 conferences are feeders to that system.