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Message: [QUOTE="ThisJustIn, post: 3369752, member: 382"] I've chimed in often on posts like this because: 1) If you're a sport, your refs "suck." 2) There are realities- like conferences unwilling to spend money because, as you know 3) the NCAA does not supervise the officials (until the tournament - where they draw from Conference recommendations, etc. to create the pool of officials). Conferences do - sorta. Officials are independent contractors, so anything above and beyond game day contracting has to BE PAID. So, 4) What the Rules Committee decides (input by ADs and Coaches) gets sent to the Conference supervisors. Who then interpret those rules and share them with the pool of officials they hire. How a ref calls games is often influenced by their employer. 5) Last I heard, most D1 reffed games produce a DVD that's given to the officials to review. Depending on the conference's budget, there is a rep observing and evaluating their work. They meet after the game and/or are given notes. 6) It's a stunningly difficult job. Yes, the top officials get good money, but they've worked years getting peanuts. AND traveling away from family for months. AND they get abused by coaches, players and fans who know better. 7) Most of the time they DON'T know better. Ask former player and current ref Monique Currie. 8) Finally, a while back, Mary Struckhoff took over at the NCAA. She replaced the legendary Marcy Weston. Mary started to implement some changes, created web-based support sites, pushed for transparency... and then was no longer in the position. If you're interested, I wrote several articles a while back. Likely some stuff is out of date, but it does provide some useful background (I hope). [URL='https://fraser61.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/making-the-calls-the-world-of-referees/'][B]MAKING THE CALLS: [/B]The World of Referees[/URL] [B][URL='https://fraser61.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/coaches-and-officials-reaching-across-the-divide-july-2006/']COACHES AND OFFICIALS: Reaching Across the Divide[/URL] [/B]– A look at the relationship between officials and coaches and the impact on recruiting efforts [URL='https://fraser61.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/earning-their-stripes-officials-in-training-october-2007/'][B]EARNING THEIR STRIPES: [/B]Officials in Training[/URL] [URL='https://fraser61.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/officiating-under-review-coaches-conferences-and-the-ncaa-working-to-collaborate/'][B]OFFICIATING UNDER REVIEW: [/B]Coaches, Conferences and the NCAA Working to Collaborate[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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