Episode 39: Season 3 premiere

My first quick take is something that happened over the summer.

but I think it deserves a shout out for Steve Shaw, who is now the ex-NCAA Secretary of Rules Editor and National Coordinator of Officials.

He stepped down effective September 1.

He was replaced by Ron Snodgrass, who was a former Big Ten official.

And as someone who is a, I would say, a connoisseur of training putting out training videos for the media, for anyone who was interested in watching, he would post them on YouTube.

And he just had a way of being able to describe complex plays in a way that everyone could understand, whether it's a referee, an official, or even just someone who is a casual fan

of the game.

And I know he's moved over to ESPN now, so he's going to be one of their many sort of rules analysts there.

explaining these things.

So I wanted to give him a shout out and a little bit for Ron.

He's going to have to, he has some big shoes to fill coming in.

Obviously he has to do all the managing and the coordinating of the officials, but keeping up.

And he did say, and he's already put out a few videos already.

He's going to keep up with those videos to educate everybody as well.

And again, kudos to Steve and good luck in his next career.

And that's the thing is that 99% of the job is all those other things, the logistical things and all the rules interpretations.

But the 1%, which is dealing with the controversies and all that's the 1 that's that seems to be the outsized 1. but, uh.

Yes, you said big shoes to fill and, uh, in many respects there.

Uh, and so we look, we look forward, uh, to the, to the new era.