This is....I don't even know what to say about it. I don't know what's worse...that an official would do something like this, or after "investigating", they let him walk away with no reprimand?? Wow...just wow.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/21989633/pac-12-head-of-officials-investigated-for-targeting-arizonas-sean-miller
NCAA officials have not had a great tournament. There has to be a system of consistency and uniformity employed. In the VCU vs. OSU game, the VCU player got clipped in the jaw with an elbow which left him in and out with concussed symptoms. The call on the floor was a "basketball play", meaning no flagrant 1. Trent has a man literally in his grill and turns to the hoop to get some space the only way he can, and gets called for one. In the East Regional, hardly any fouls were called. In others, a foul was called every time down the court.
Take some of the huge amounts of NCAA profits from basketball and create a salary based system based on merit, not one based on freelance deals and cronyism. Have the NCAA run, train, grade and assign officials, not conferences. Are the rules different from conference to conference that require this and bring in this old boy network situation? Limit the number of games in a week an official can work an active game, and require at least two days of video and grade reviews. Clean up the vagueness of various rules like the flagrant and player control fouls so consistent application is applied. Build a broader pool of officials who work a variety of games at different levels. Limit coach and official interaction as you see some officials actually join team huddles. Coach K often commands a prolonged officials' "conversation", for example, and he can do it because he had that same official in 4-6 of his conference games, so there is an over bias due to familiarity (see Miller).
Just some ideas...but it is crazy that the first time officials work together with the same supervision and game pay is the NCAA tournament. No wonder there are so many inconsistencies.
How in the hell does he and Mike Rice still have jobs?
Hey, we can approach Rutgers recruits now that they are in the big 10/11/13/14.
Another shining example of Big Ten higher standards.