Who hires the refs for home games?

[Palatine]

Is it us or the visitors. If it is us, it's time to bring in neutral crews. Say the Ivy league or B12.

 

[uconnric]

I think it's part of the game contract between the teams.

 

[Nicklo28]

I believe this week the Refs will be from AAC. The conference Rice is in.

 

[Excalibur]

Generally in a non-conference game the road team takes officials from their conference, and I think the conference of the visiting team pays them. Our situation is unique, so I'm not sure if that's the case for us.

 

[Palatine]

So did we hire the refs for Duke and Maryland?

 

[Chin Diesel]

So did we hire the refs for Duke and Maryland?

Yes and no. UConn negotiated it with those schools where to pull the from for the game.

 

[huskymedic]

So did we hire the refs for Duke and Maryland?

Yes and no. UConn negotiated it with those schools where to pull the from for the game.

Duke was an ACC crew - not sure about Maryland.

 

[NJHusky]

Seems simple….hire a neutral crew

 

[UCMB88]

Maryland was an ACC crew. The game officials are part of the terms of the contract when it is drafted for OOC games, and 95% of the time the officials will be from the visiting team's conference. We're not gonna attract P4 opponents to come to The Rent if they can't have their conference's officials work the game. AD David Benedict might have some negotiation room when it comes to G5 teams coming to East Hartford, but no way B12, ACC, B1G or SEC teams will come to PAWSARF without their officials.

 

[UConn Dan]

I thought I read somewhere (last year) that we had a deal with ACC refs for our away games als, but I’m not sure that’s true or the same deal this year. If Maryland was ACC refs then that might stand to be true. We’ll see when we go on the road in November to non-ACC schools.

 

[businesslawyer]

I think it's part of the game contract between the teams.

This is the correct answer.

In a home and home, it's standard (but not required) that the visiting team's refs do the game.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Seems simple….hire a neutral crew

Have fun getting a contract signed with a P4 school.

 

[NowInStorrs]

We should contract to use exclusively Big 12 refs... manifest the connection.

 

[Palatine]

Have fun getting a contract signed with a P4 school.

But as an independent, we ain't got no refs. That' the rub.

 

[UCan3]

Duke was an ACC crew - not sure about Maryland.

Duke’s game was called fairly IMO

 

[UCan3]

Have fun getting a contract signed with a P4 school.

I think a good compromise would be to hire at least one neutral ref that works that could be a ”safeguard” against professional misconduct like what happened with Wake Forest.

And no more of this BS stuff were calls again us go to the Conference Refs for a final ruling as the sit in their kingdom, dealing out injustice.

That definitely should stop - we ain’t in their conference - unless they want to share conference revenue with us - make the call on the field - no more tinkering w/ the game!

I had no issues Duke game - they beat us fair/square - not all games are bad but enough to take notice - that’s for sure.