MVC Officials

[AcesOverKings]

Just wonder who you guys feel the top officials in the league are? The best ones I know you don't know their name but most die hards always learn the officials who you see night in night out working games in the league.

[SMK4UNI]

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I hope we have Higgins in all of our games. I pray that we don't have Zelton "I want to be the next Ed Hightower" Sneed or the little bald guy for the ISUr game.

[Panther-Sheik]

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The little bald guy is terrible...way out of his league. He just simply guesses at calls...making assumptions or reacting to the crowd. I don't EVER want him again.

[UnderParPanther]

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to be fair to the officials (i've officiated and its tougher than it looks) most of the calls in the Old Dominion game that looked atrocious live were def fouls after I rewatched the game. There was a def switch in how the game was called, but they were fouls non-the-less......

Zelton is by far my least favorite official and hopefully he is not assigned to any of our games....I'm guessing we'd get Higgens and the semi's/finals should be good crews as well since its the only big tourney this coming weekend.

[UNIpanther99]

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I like how Mike Sanzere manages a game.

[ryan19]

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"Hmm... lets see, how am I going to make up for that call??"

[georgeW]

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"Hmm... lets see, how am I going to make up for that call??"

I don't want to sound racist, so, I will say the official holding the ball is horrible. Also, the dark haired cheerleader has turned her head to avoid the smell of his but, however, the blonde is leaning forward for a better whiff.

[Waverly_Panther]

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Higgins, Pollard and Jansen are probably some of the best that the Valley gets. These are likely candidates for the final game and working the semi-finals.

[achrist70]

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I'll admit that I will get on an official now and again. However being a certified official I have found that I have a completely different view now than when I wasn't an official like UnderPar said it isn't as easy as it looks.

But something that most people don't take into account is that college officials don't work in crews they work as individuals. So it is hard to truly get in a rhythm as a crew usually does in the high school games. I know that when I get hired individually for a makeup game it always takes a while to get adjusted to the other officials. That can lead to a lack of the all important consistency.

[ryan19]

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I'll admit that I will get on an official now and again. However being a certified official I have found that I have a completely different view now than when I wasn't an official like UnderPar said it isn't as easy as it looks.

But something that most people don't take into account is that college officials don't work in crews they work as individuals. So it is hard to truly get in a rhythm as a crew usually does in the high school games. I know that when I get hired individually for a makeup game it always takes a while to get adjusted to the other officials. That can lead to a lack of the all important consistency.

[UNI83]

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I'll admit that I will get on an official now and again. However being a certified official I have found that I have a completely different view now than when I wasn't an official like UnderPar said it isn't as easy as it looks.

But something that most people don't take into account is that college officials don't work in crews they work as individuals. So it is hard to truly get in a rhythm as a crew usually does in the high school games. I know that when I get hired individually for a makeup game it always takes a while to get adjusted to the other officials. That can lead to a lack of the all important consistency.

I don't buy it. You know the rules. You know what area of the court you are to watch. You know what should be called.


If you see something call it. If you don't, don't.

[achrist70]

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I don't buy it. You know the rules. You know what area of the court you are to watch. You know what should be called.


If you see something call it. If you don't, don't.

You know as well as I do, some officials see breathing on a guy as a foul, and others no blood no foul. Finding out, and knowing how your partners call a game is key.

[UNI83]

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You know as well as I do, some officials see breathing on a guy as a foul, and others no blood no foul. Finding out, and knowing how your partners call a game is key.

So...because they don't want to follow the rules of the game and call the game like it should be means you shouldn't as well?


I'll have to remember that when I'm doing my baseball games this summer or football games this fall

[achrist70]

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So...because they don't want to follow the rules of the game and call the game like it should be means you shouldn't as well?


I'll have to remember that when I'm doing my baseball games this summer or football games this fall

No, all officials call the games by the rules, some just see things differently. Similar to different umpires having slightly different strike zones.

[UNI83]

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No, all officials call the games by the rules, some just see things differently. Similar to different umpires having slightly different strike zones.

So...by seeing things differently they aren't calling a foul or are calling fouls that aren't fouls? And just because your partner sees a foul but doesn't "see it as a foul" that means it isn't a foul?


I don't buy the "reffing is hard unless you work with the same guys all the time". I understand every ref has a different flow, but if you are subbing in for a game, call it by the rules as you see. Don't call it the way they see it. Seems pretty clear to me