How College Officials are Assigned...

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Does anyone know?
I know that the away team conference typically provides the referee, but there are some exceptions. I was just looking at the past three years of VTs referees, and its a very odd set up. Sometimes they've had the same crew 2 out of 3 weeks, without seeing some crews at all that season.

Here is VT since the 09/10 season

Bama - Matt Austin (SEC)
Marshall - Walt Davenport
Neb - Karl Richins (big 12)
Miami - Tom Zimorski
Duke - Walt Davenport
BC - Tom Zimorski
GT - Jeff Flanagan
UNC - Ron Cherry
ECU - Cooper Castleberry (was he CUSA before?)
Maryland - Tom DeJoseph
NCSU - Brad Allen
UVA - Tom DeJoseph
Tenn (bowl) - Ed Ardito

2010-2011
Boise - John ONeil (B1G)
JMU - Jerry Magallanes
ECU - Tom McCreesh
BC - Jeff Flanagan
NCSU - Tom Zimorski
CMU - Michael Conlin (MAC?)
Wake - Jack Childress
Duke - Walt Davenport
GT - Tom Zimorski
UNC - Jack Childress
Miami - Tom DeJoseph
UVA - Jack Childress
FSU (acccg) - Brad Allen
Stanford (bowl) - Tom Walker

2011-2012
App St - Walt Davenport
ECU - Wayne Winkler (CUSA)
Ark St - Jeff Heaser
Marshall - Ed Ardito (CUSA)
Clem - Ron Cherry
Miami - Jerry Magallanes
Wake - Tom McCreesh
BC - Tom Zimorski
Duke- Tom McCreesh
GT - Brad Allen
UNC - Ron Cherry
UVA - Brad Allen
Clem (acccg) - Jerry Magallanes
Michigan (bowl) - Stricherz (PAC12)

2012-2013
GT - Brad Allen
Austin Peay - Jeff Flanagan
Pitt - Jeff Heaser
Bowl Green - Walt Davenport



Basically, we've have 5 times in 3 yrs where we saw the same crew in the Yes, No, Yes format.
Is this normal? Has anyone else tracked their team?

(Also, we've only have Ron Cherry 3 times, bummer)

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O'Neill is a Big Ten guy.

[mike]

It is normal especially when you get to divisional play as the leagues tend to assign their best Referees to the games they expect to be the biggest (hence why Michigan/OSU is almost always Bill Lemmonier or John O'Neill) and Virginia Tech has generally been the top 2 or 3 teams in the ACC so when they have big games it is usually Zimorski or Allen (and until he retired, Childress). It seems to be that the pecking order for the ACC this year is Allen or Zimorski get the top two games, Magallanes and Cherry get the next 2, and after that is really a crap shoot though there is some variation so that a team does not get the same crew back-to-back or see one crew more than 2 or 3 teams in a season. I can understand why leagues do that, but if I were the head I would probably try and make sure my crews were more even so I could pretty much have any crew work any game and do my best so teams do not see the same officiating crew more than once at home