Wild story about head of Pac-12 officials targeting Sean Miller

[ehh]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...as-sean-miller

Stern's cronies are ruining the college game too!

Quote:

Pac-12 coordinator of basketball officials and former NBA referee Ed Rush has been investigated by the Pac-12 for comments made about Arizona coach Sean Miller in meetings that included several Pac-12 referees. Rush, according to a source within the Pac-12 officiating group, told a group of referees on the Thursday of the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas that he would give them $5,000 or a trip to Cancun if they either "rang him up" or "ran him," meaning hit Miller with a technical or toss him out of the game. Rush then reiterated during a Friday morning meeting, according to one referee in attendance, that officials should take similar action against Miller if he did anything on Friday in the Pac-12 semifinals against UCLA. "He was emphatic about not dealing with him (Miller)," the ref told CBSSports.com. "He made that perfectly clear." Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott issued a statement to CBSSports.com: "Based on the review, we have concluded that while Rush made inappropriate comments that he now regrets during internal meetings that referenced rewards, he made the comments in jest and the officials in the room realized they were not serious offers," Scott told CBSSports.com. "Following our review, we have discussed the matter with Rush, taken steps to ensure it does not happen again, and communicated our findings to all of our officials."

[BunnyHardaway]

I know it's not really connected, but if anyone thinks Donaghy was a "rogue official" after this, they're crazy.

[Kobalt]

Come on Larry, fire him. There is no other option.

[phenom1990]

Well they really screwed Arizona in that 1st Arizona Colorado game . I know that game had nothing to do with the Pac 12 tournament, I just wanted to say it.

[WazzuRC]

Not surprised with anything Pac-12 refs do. The worst hands down of any conference in America.

[Cusefan]

What are the odds of the FBI getting involved here, a promise of money was made to give a Technical to a coach and that technical foul directly altered the outcome of that game. I have no idea what the line on that game was but it is pretty curious. I'm just spitballing here, I don't know.

[TheBrothers24]

If only we would have listen to Mark Cuban, all of this could have been avoided.

Here’s Cuban’s full quote regarding Rush, circa Jan. 8, 2002: “”Ed Rush might have been a great ref, but I wouldn’t hire him to manage a Dairy Queen. His interest is not in the integrity of the game or improving the officiating.”

[Cusefan]

PAC12 head is on The SVP show right now and is totally covering for his guy. If he can't fire Ed Rush then he needs to be fired. These guys are clowns, plain and simple.