OT: Ted Valentine

Sorry I can't help you but he did just make a very qustionable call and he made it with pinache

I just looked at his schedule, and he's worked a bunch of ACC and SEC games, I don't think there's any exclusive Ref's in College Basketball

Also, I bet Kentucky pulls this one out

Here's his past schedule:

http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees/ted-valentine/schedule

It seems as though Ted Valentine has been all over NCAA basketball this year: http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees/ted-valentine/conferences.  I do not know how StatSheet tracks inter-conference matchups, but he has refereed games of teams in 8 different conferences this season.

Edit: Slow on the draw.  Move along.

do not have specific conferences that they are alligned to.  They work all over the place and that is part of the reason why college basketball officiating is so terrible.  The guys travel all across the country and work way too many games.  I wish the B1G had their own set of officials.

Couldn't help but notice Tedd V. kept trying to get on tv during College Gameday last saturday.

He works C-USA games, particularly involving Memphis as well.

He's just so cocky and arrogant. He's bigger than the game. It's like that MLB umpire Joe West. The fact that we know these games names is a disgrace, but that's how they want it. It's a show for them.

I am always so happy to see Ted Valentine working other teams games. Seems as though he has been a bad offical since the early 90's, when he was going crazy in the Big East with Jim Burr. I am amazed he is still a ref in the NCAA.

Unlike NCAA football (or hockey), refs in basketball are independent contractors, and generally work in several different conferences over the season.  Experienced refs like Valentine are able to make a living as a referee, something football refs can't do, even in the NFL.

Valentine's schedule last week...Monday off, Tuesday--North Carolina Asheville at Coastal Carolina, Wednesday--Purdue at Illinois, Thursday--Vanderbilt at Mississippi, Friday--off, Saturday--Ohio State at Michigan, Sunday--Indiana at Iowa

This week so far...Monday--Texas Southern at Mississippi Valley State, Tuesday--Kentucky at Mississippi State

Those seem to be pretty typical weeks for him; he will work 5 or 6 days every week.  He has worked conference games this year in the Big Ten, SEC, Southern Conference, ACC, SWAC, Big South, Conference USA and the Sun Belt.

Wow, look at that travel schedule. That looks just absolutely grueling. I have a newfound respect/horror at that. 

But...They work 5 days a week, jogging up and down the floor for a couple hours?  As in, they get some good exercise each day of the week, like many people really should anyway.  And we're calling this grueling?  Many of the games are in the same vicinity of one another as well.  I agree the traveling may get pretty extensive, and the more I look at it it may be "tougher" than I first thought, but I wouldn't go as far to say they're overworked.

I don't mean to say they're overrated by any means, but it sounds as though they work a job, that is tough at times, like most Americans do; and they're involved in a game they probably love.  No matter how much I rip on referees, more power to them for what they do; I have respect for them (no matter how much they make themselves known in the games these days).

Is this the idiot that dances and hops around like he's auditioning for the Four Tops?

Or am I thinking of Ed Hightower?

Jim Burr is a great referree. I don't mind Eddie too much I guess.

I believe the bald official you referenced may be Jim Bain, truly the worst baksetball official I've ever seen. In the mid to late 70's I thought more than once that Johnny Orr would punch him.