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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4611233, member: 591"] Excellent article. For many years, I tracked where the (supposedly) elite officials worked each day (by conference, not specific school) and I still track who the officials are in the post-season tournaments. Hence, I typically "knew" something about an officials work and experience and, having seen innumerable games on TV and probably well north of 400 in person, I have made a number of conclusions - [LIST] [*]The best refs (who work an awful lot during the season at a variety of conferences) actually are nowhere near as "bad" as disappointed fans say - but are not immune from the following other issues [*]An awful lot of referees have pre-conceived notions - about teams, about players, about what they perceive as fouls. [*]I don't know if it is the rules or what exactly, but a lot of fouls appear to be called by the official who couldn't see what happened. [*]Flopping - whether exaggerating contact or just from a breeze - often seems to get a call when no one is merited. When you get an official who seems to be doing a good job at not calling flops, all of a sudden half the fans start complaining that they're awful. [*]No 2 refs seem to see things the same way, and, as I have often commented, no 2 conferences seem to expect their officials to referee a game in the same way. [/LIST] All of that said, every once in a while there is an inexplicable "brain-fart" performance. A famous "trip" late in a tournament game years back, the "Clockwork Orange" game I was at with Rutgers, and most certainly yesterday's game. Just awful. [/QUOTE]

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