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If Hightower and Burr are in Madison

Started by NateDoggMarq, November 22, 2007, 10:37:39 AM

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77ncaachamps

Especially with the way Butch is coming along and Trevon is blowing it up (25, 21, 15, 18 his past four games)!
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MilTown

I think I'm in the minority, but I don't think Hightower is a bad official. Now Burr on the other hand is the worst in the game right now. Everytime I see him on the sidelines, I know its going to be a long night.

muwarrior87

Hopefully Higgins isn't there too...I could have sworn he retired but was with Burr in NYC this week.

Coobeys Oil Depot

Quote from: 77ncaachamps on November 22, 2007, 12:41:48 PM
Especially with the way Butch is coming along and Trevon is blowing it up (25, 21, 15, 18 his past four games)!

Hughes has been very good but we can rest assured this is one area MU will be strong in all season: neutralizing the lead guard. We have the horses to stem his improvement and it will, again, come down to our effort and positioning on rebounds.

What surprises me more then Hughes playing well is Flowers returning back to a role player in the early part of the season. Isn't starting right now and they haven't used him much but that could be due more to their horrendous competition then his place in the team.

mviale

Have we ever won a game with Hightower officiating? 
You heard it here first. Davante Gardner will be a Beast this year.
http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=27259

Pardner

Quote from: mviale on November 23, 2007, 02:22:47 PM
Have we ever won a game with Hightower officiating? 
11/4/07 versus Northern State.

spartan3186

I don't know if anyone else noticed this but somehow hightower flew from maui to orlando after the game and did the kansas state george mason game yesterday... How can the ncaa allow that???

HansMoleman

Quote from: spartan3186 on November 23, 2007, 03:44:15 PM
I don't know if anyone else noticed this but somehow hightower flew from maui to orlando after the game and did the kansas state george mason game yesterday... How can the ncaa allow that???
I noticed.  What is that, an 8-9 hour flight + 5 hour time change?

ecompt

Doesn't matter who the officials are...Bo owns everyone once they stepm in those doors...We will get outshot by a minimum of 15 free throws.

tomcrean4pres

Thats a tough job traveling that far in one night... i know i wouldnt want to do that
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muwarrior87

Quote from: tomcrean4pres on November 24, 2007, 12:58:37 AM
Thats a tough job traveling that far in one night... i know i wouldnt want to do that

Neither would I when I was already a superintendent of an Illinois school district

spiral97

As Sun Tzu says: know those who oppose you.

Ed Hightower



http://www.siu.edu/bot/Hightower-bio.html

Ed Hightower was appointed to the SIU Board of Trustees in 2001. He currently serves as vice-chair of the Board and chair of the Board's Academic Matters Committee. He also serves as member of the Board's Executive Committee; member of the Board's Architecture and Design Committee; Board representative to the Board of Directors, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Foundation; and alternate Board Representative to the Board of Directors, Alumni Association of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.  His term expires in 2007.

Hightower, of Edwardsville (Ill.), is known nationally as an outstanding Division I basketball referee, officiating in ten NCAA Final Four tournaments. In 1999, he was named one of the top 100 St. Louis area athletes of the century, and he has received numerous awards for his professional officiating.

But as much as he enjoys basketball, Hightower makes it clear that his work as superintendent of the Edwardsville Community Unit School District is his top priority. He has served in the position since 1995 and before that was assistant superintendent for Alton schools.

Hightower is committed to the district's teachers and students. He has been recognized locally and nationally for his contributions to education, winning the 1989 Illinois Distinguished Principals Award and recognition in the 1992 Who's Who of American Educators. In 1993 he won the Illinois Principal of the Year award and the National Distinguished Principals Award.

In 1990 he received the Elijah P. Lovejoy Human Rights Award and the Illinois Jaycees 10 Outstanding Young Persons Award. He serves on the Board of Directors for Lewis and Clark Community College, St. Anthony's Hospital. He is also active in the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce and the Edwardsville Rotary Club.

He holds bachelor's, master's and specialist degrees from SIU Edwardsville and a doctorate in education administration from St. Louis University.

He and his wife, Barbara, have two daughters, Julie and Jennifer.

Won the 1992 Naismith Award as official of the year.

James (Jim) Burr



Could not find much on him other than rants but this is what little I did find (besides his home address and phone number on the official site of one of the conferences he refs for (!!!)  - which I will not post).
Mr. Burr is the current Assistant Supervisor of officials for the ECAC Division II and III. Jim also referees the Big East, Atlantic 10, Big 10, SEC and the METRO Conferences, along with numerous playoff assignments as well as NIT and NCAA appearances.

Won the 1995 Naismith Award as official of the year.

Ted Valentine was his pupil.


Ted Valentine


(as of April 2005)
Valentine, 45, started officiating intramural basketball games to earn extra money when he was an all-conference baseball player at Glenville (W.Va.) State College.

During his tenure as a high school teacher and coach, he started taking it seriously by going to the Southern Conference referee's camp in the early 1980s. As he began working the SoCon circuit, he got a break and secured a 30-game schedule with the Big 10 Conference in 1985. The rest, as they say, is history.

Over the years, Valentine has earned the reputation as a no-nonsense official who is sought after to work big games in the ACC, SEC, Big 10, Big East and Conference USA.

He's also worked the NCAA Tournament since 1990, has done three Final Fours and three national championship games.

No longer in the classroom, Valentine has made college officiating his full-time profession, working summer camps during the offseason.

Won the 2005 Naismith Award as official of the year.

Known to millions as the man who ejected former Indiana coach Bobby Knight from his home court in 1998, Valentine and his fiance Deborah White have moved to Charleston and plan to make the Lowcountry their home.


Tim Higgins

(on left)
Away from the game, he's good-time Timmy, nicknamed "Bullet" by his pals, and he has a voracious love for his buddies, his family, pizza and hot wings.

25-plus years working D-I men's basketball and whistled 10 Final Fours, including four championship games.

Spent his childhood in Providence, R.I.,

His brother-in-law, Patrick Hoey, perished in the north tower of the World Trade Center when it collapsed during the 9-11 attacks.

One of the last original members of the first Big East Conference officiating staff from 1979

Vice president of sales for Kamco, a Brooklyn company that sells contractor'ssupplies and heavy machinery.

Lives in Ramsey, N.J., raised three daughters – Colleen, 24, Meaghan, 22, and Patricia, 18 – with his wife of more than 25 years, Kathy.

Higgins graduated in 1964 from Dumont (N.J.) High School with a nondescript academic record and no compelling career plans.

In the summer of 1965, Higgins was enrolled at Rockland Community College in Suffern, N.Y. Following a six-month stint in the Army Reserves, it was on to Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J., in the summer of 1967.

During his years at Fairleigh Dickinson, where he graduated in 1972 and earned a business degree in 1976, Higgins took on several odd jobs to work himself through college. One of those jobs was officiating.

Won the 1994 Naismith Award as official of the year.
Once a warrior always a warrior.. even if the feathers must now come with a beak.

TallTitan34

Yikes!  They all were officals of the year at one point.

Harrison

Dont know if anyone saw it but Burr made his typical "I am bigger than the game" type call last night.  Called a foul against Villanova from well behind the play and out of position, while the ref. that was in position never felt the need to call a foul.  .4 seconds left NC state goes to the line down 1 and wins the game.

spartan3186

I saw it... they were ripping him like no other on Game Day after the SIU vs USC game

dwaderoy2004

Burr didn;t make the call.  don;t rip the guy jsut for the sake of it:

"There is no vemon or vitriol in saying that NC State was given the Old Spice title game by a last-second foul call in Orlando on Sunday. The fact is that in what seemed like a great finish to a well-played game, longtime official Jim Burr was in perfect position to call a foul and he did not. Instead, the official on the baseline anticipated the foul and frankly, he blew it. While it is absolutely fair to say the call was wrong, it is also fair to say that officials need time to round into mid-season form. The more hoops I watch, the more it seems like positioning and anticipating a call lead to bad calls far more than malice."

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/notebook?page=notebook/weeklywatch03