ACC Crew Rotation

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Does anyone know if the ACC has permanent crews? I noticed that Allen's bowl crew from last Saturday was not his usual, and I thought only the BCS crew is the "top at each position" and I noticed this:

in 4 games reffed by Allen (VT@UNC, GT@VT, UVA@NCSU and BOWL) he had:
3 different Umps (Hyson, Goodwin, Ecki)
2 different HLs (Hardin and Davis)
3 different LJs (Page, Misner, Andrick)
4 different FJs (Tyson, Cullin, Garvey, Short)
2 different SJs (Harrison and Bonet)
3 different Bjs (Cole, Smith, Boyd)

I only looked at VT and UVA games by the way, but I just found it kind of interesting that he never had the same crew twice

[howard63]

The ACC does have permanent crews to the extent possible. There are restrictions , such as no games involving an official's alma mater, that have to be taken into account. In Allen's case, Jim Hyson was his regular umpire and Arthur Hardin was his regular head linesman. Also, from what I understand,the ACC likes to have HL and SJs and LJ and FJs work together as much as possible. For example, LJ Richard Misner and FJ Mike Cullin worked together on Jeff Heaser's crew for the most part.

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i got very bored today and researched each game involving an ACC school and an ACC referee crew this season, for a total of 77 games. Charted out who worked which games and such. I'll post it here if I can, but it's a MW doc, so i'm not sure how too without the formatting being messed up in copy and pasting

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also noticed that FJ Pat Garvey took the white hat for 2 games, so he may be the next WH in the ACC when one retires or if Allen goes to NFL

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Allen's normal crew was Hyson, Harding, Formulak, Johnson, Harrison, Boyd.
Johnson suffered a season ending injury and never worked a game, thus the constant rotation at F. Other crew members attended particular schools and can't work those games. All ACC bowl crews are all star selections. And yes look for Garvey to have a full time white hat next year........