Are Officials Working Too Many Games?  March 1st, 2010 It's a
question that's come up quite a bit in recent years: are
officials overworked? And the answer in the eyes of many (yes)
is followed by the question of what the NCAA should do about it.
It's far tougher to avoid the truth with many websites now
allowing visitors to not only track refs by the number of games
that they work but also by trends such as how many times they've
called games involving one team all the way down to how many
fouls per game each official averages. Add to this bit of
technology the benefit of instant replay (with multiple angles)
and the stripes are scrutinized at a level unheard of as
recently as a decade ago.  But while the general consensus is
that officials are in some cases working too many games in a
given week, the same can't be said for possible solutions. This
is where some misconceptions can cloud the picture, one of which
being that the NCAA's Coordinator of Men's Basketball
Officiating (John W. Adams) is the man resp