“You know he’s an elite official. You just know you don’t test him. He’s a serious guy. And he’s really good. Anytime I’ve been like, I wasn’t sure about that, you catch the tape and say, he’s right most of the time, you leave him alone. You tell your players, that guy is working in the Final Four, and don’t question him.”
“Really focused. Steady. Knows his shit. He does a great job, in my opinion, of managing the game.”
“You can just tell it really matters. He wants to get every play right.”
At the behest of St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca, Big East supervisor of officials Art Hyland once arrived at the league’s annual coaches’ meetings with a picture book. Inside were headshots of each of the Big East’s officials, created to help the notoriously bad with names Carnesecca...