[vincesanity82]

SEC commissioner Mike Slive said the league may look into running background checks on officials after the recent NBA controversy in which official Tim Donaghy is being investigated for betting on games, including ones in which he officiated. "Obviously we talk about it all the time," Slive said. "Having said that, one can't watch what's going on in the NBA without realizing the need to be ever-vigilant. "As a matter of fact, in three weeks our athletic directors will meet and we will talk with them about what we do and my guess is we'll end even doing more than we've done in the past. A lot of the focus in the NCAA has been on gambling and student-athletes. I think we need to make sure we've got a parallel program that is as intense for our officials as it is for the student-athletes." As for the future, Slive added: "We'll probably end up doing background checks. Right now, all of our officials in basketball all want to participate in the NCAA tournament, so they all go through background checks (they are mandatory from the NCAA to do postseason games). The NBA has background checks, but one thing a background check can't tell you is what a guy is going to do tomorrow. It can tell you what they did yesterday. -- Florida Today

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[bucky889]

I think I would be afraid what I would find. You want to know your conference is clean, but could you imagine if the found something? What would that do to the SEC?

[Stoney]

Originally Posted by bucky889

I think I would be afraid what I would find. You want to know your conference is clean, but could you imagine if the found something? What would that do to the SEC?

Show they got some backbone and that they were'nt going to tolerate bad officials. The whole NCAA ought to be examining thier Officials and they ought to use the NFL instant replay.