BTI's Rants and Ramblings: Speaking of Officials

Last week you may have heard of the study done on NBA officials that showed that the shorter NBA refs tended to call more fouls, likely because they were closer to all the hand checking.  Last season, thanks to bigbluehistory.net, I compiled a list of all the officials who have reffed a game since John Calipari has been at Kentucky.  I thought before we get started into Year 6 of the Cal Era it would be good to refresh that list to give you an idea of the guys who have “contributed” to the losses and wins more than others.  With each official I have listed the games they have reffed that Kentucky lost, and those in red are either SEC or NCAA Tournament losses:

27-8: Tony Greene (’10 Tennessee, ’11 Florida, ’12 Vandy, ’12 Duke, ’13 Florida, ’13 Baylor, ’14 Florida, ’14 Florida)

25-8: Doug Shows (’11 Alabama, ’12 Louisville, ’13 Texas A&M, ’13 Alabama, ’13 Tennessee, ’13 Arkansas, ’14 Florida, ’14 UCONN)

22-3: Mike Nance (’10 South Carolina, ’12 Vandy, ’14 South Carolina)
22-3: Anthony Jordan (’11 Arkansas, ’14 LSU, ’14 Arkansas)

17-3: Joe Lindsay (’11 Georgia, ’11 Ole Miss, ’13 UNC)
17-5: Antonio Petty (’11 Georgia, ’12 Vanderbilt, ’12 Baylor, ’13 Vanderbilt, ’14 Florida)

14-3: Pat Adams (’11 Vanderbilt, ’12 Baylor, ’14 Arkansas)

13-4: Ron Groover (’13 Vanderbilt, ’14 Arkansas, “14 Florida, ’14 Florida)
13-4: Mark Whitehead (’11 Arkansas, ’11 UCONN, ’13 Tennessee, ’14 LSU)
13-5: Ted Valentine (’10 West Virginia, ’11 Florida, ’11 Indiana, ’13 Michigan St, ’14 LSU)

12-2: Patrick Evans (’13 Texas A&M, ’13 Vanderbilt)
12-2: Lee Cassell (’13 Arkansas, ’14 Florida)
12-4: Doug Sirmons (’10 Tennessee, ’11 Vanderbilt, ’12 Baylor, ’14 Florida)

11-4: Jamie Luckie (’10 West Virginia, ’10 UNC, ’11 Alabama, ’11 Vanderbilt)

9-1: Mike Roberts (’13 Florida)
9-3: John Cahill (’10 South Carolina, ’12 Louisville, ’13 Alabama)
9-3: Ed Corbett (’12 Notre Dame, ’12 Louisville, ’12 Florida)

8-0: JB Caldwell

7-0: Bert Smith
7-2: Michael Stephens (’13 Georgia, ’14 Florida)
7-2: Gary Maxwell (’11 Ole Miss, ’11 Arkansas)

6-3: Les Jones (’11 UCONN, ’12 Notre D, ’14 Arkansas)

5-0: Rick Hartzell, Glenn Tuitt
5-1: Bruce Benedict (’13 Texas A&M)
5-1: Tom Eades (’11 Indiana)
5-1: Brian Shey (’13 Tennessee)
5-3: Mike Eades (’10 UNC, ’12 Duke, ’13 UNC)
5-5: Michael Kitts (’10 Tennessee, ’11 Alabama, ’11 Florida, ’11 Indiana, ’13 Michigan State)

4-0: Don Daily
4-1: Jim Burr (’13 Georgia)
4-1: Tim Gattis (’14 South Carolina)
4-2: Joe DeRosa (’13 Baylor, ’14 UCONN)
4-3: Karl Hess (’11 Ole Miss, ’12 Notre Dame, ’13 Alabama)

3-0: Steven Anderson, Tony Henderson, Chuck Jones, Gerry Pollard
3-1: Bob Donato (’10 UCONN)
3-1: Terry Moore (’11 Georgia)
3-1: Pat Driscoll (’13 Michigan St)
3-1: James Barker (’13 Arkansas)

2-0 Jeffery Clark, Tim Clougherty, Rick Crawford, Sean Hull, Randy McCall, Ray Natili, Mike Reed, Garrick Shannon, Mike Thibodeaux, CJ Washington
2-1: James Breeding (’14 Arkansas)
2-1: Verne Harris (’14 UCONN)
2-1: Kevin Fehr (’14 South Carolina)
2-5: Roger Ayers (’10 UNC, ’12 Duke, ’13 Georgia, ’13 UNC, ’14 Arkansas)

1-0: Bob Adams, Jeff Anderson, Jeffery Anderson, DJ Carstenson, Sean Corbin, Edwin Edsall, Kevin Ferguson, Dan Fouser, John Gaffney,  Darron George, Dwayne Gladden, Mike Greenstein, David Hall, Gerry Heater, John Heatley, Tim Higgins, Michael Irving, Peter Juzenas, Bryan Kearsey, Keith Kimble, Brian O’Connell, Tony Padilla, Gary Pucino, Mike Reed, Mike Sanzere, Kevin Scott, Kelly Self, Forrest Sigler, Lamar Simpson, Jeff Smith, Larry Spaulding, Dedric Taylor Scott Thornley, Gary Tracey, Ken Turner, Vladimir Voyard-Tadal, Willi Washington, Ryan Wells, Deron White, Tracy Woodson, Terry Wymer
1-1: John Higgins (’11 UCONN)
1-1: Ed Hightower (’10 UCONN)
1-1: Chris Rastatter (’10 UCONN)

0-1: Curtis Shaw (’10 West Virginia)
0-1: Gary Prager (’13 Robert Morris)
0-1: Tony Chiazza (’13 Robert Morris)
0-1: Matt Potter (’13 Robert Morris)
0-1 Kipp Kissinger (’13 Baylor)