(03-12-2018 11:25 AM)EigenEagle Wrote: (03-12-2018 11:03 AM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote: (03-12-2018 08:51 AM)07pantheralum Wrote: (03-11-2018 11:51 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote: There is a saying that if everyone complains about refs, they must be doing something right.
No, actually Sun Belt basketball refs are atrocious. There seems to be near consensus on that except for you.
You know these aren’t Sun Belt refs, right? You these are SEC refs, right? You know the SEC is the richest conference in the world, right? You know everyone ******* about refs, right?
We have SEC referees for Saturday regular-season games and for tournament games? Have a hard time believing that.
At least one of them, Rick Randall, seems to have no affiliation with the SEC at all. That's all I've had time to check out.
Officials for Sunday - Rick Randall, Pat Evans, Sean Casey, Glenn Tuitt
From searching Rick Randall's games this season, he's worked AAC games, Mountain West games, Sun Belt games, Pac-12 games, MVC games and WAC games. Googling his name with some other keywords brought up a good number of results, and I found a lot of box scores from the last few years from those conferences, but not a single box score from an SEC game.
He was also disciplined and suspended by the MVC in 2013 for a bad game and a bad goaltending call in particular:
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-co...08616.html
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-co...08978.html
The claim that "these are SEC refs," meaning all of them, seems to be an incorrect assumption on FoUTA's part. I'll see what similar searches bring up for the other three.
ETA: I realize my characterization of these guys as "Sun Belt refs" is misleading, as they work other conferences. I just mean the pool of refs we draw from, like every conference draws from a pool of refs. The pool of refs we draw from seems to suck.