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The following interview took place
at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 23, 1977. The
interview was conducted with Cliff
Speegle, Southwest Conference
Commissioner. Speegle refused to
answer questions the night prior to
the interview when he attended the
Texas AC-MtArkansas basketball
game in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
He was contacted long distance per
his request. The interview will run in
two parts.
Question: Are the referees who of
ficiate at Southwest Conference
games rated by any system, quality
or otherwise?
Answer: Well, we rate them
through observers at all times.
Q: There is an observer at every
game?
A: Most every game that we have.
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we have someone there observing
the officials.
Q: How does the observer’s rating
affect which games a referee will of
ficiate?
A: Well, we have a procedure in
the conference which was here when
I came, and we followed that same
procedure.
We meet with the basketball
coaches in the spring. They rate the
officials at that time. They’re given a
list of officials. They rate the officials
at that time and we attempt in our
selection of officials to put the offi
cials that the basketball coaches rate
high in the conference games that
these basketball coaches have. So,
they do have a say in the selection of
the officials.
Now at times, due to scheduling
and due to what we have limitations
on, the officials’ appearance during
one season with any one ball club—
sometimes we have to deviate from
those complete selections. But we
attempt to stay as close as possible to
those selections.
Q: Are referees that are rated well
across the board by all coaches given
any preference in officiating TV
games or important games?
A: No sir, we do not know the TV
schedule when we assign basketball
officials. We assign basketball offi
cials in late July and early Sep
tember. We don’t wait for two rea
sons. One, after we get the
schedules we like to get our officials
assigned and get all of the mechanics
of this office out on the road, because
we have to coordinate officiating
with all outside opponents of the
Southwest Conference and that
means that if you have a split crew
then you are assigning an official
with someone else who has the same
duties and therefore when you are
looking at as many basketball games
as we are, we have a tremendous
amount of correspondence that has
to take place, so we have to do it at
that time of year before this office
gets geared up for competition after
school starts.
We assign the officials early.
Q: Are the coaches restricted in
any manner towards criticism of the
officials?
A: The conference does not have
what you would call a gag rule. They,
the basketball coaches themselves,
voted the gag rule upon themselves
as an agreement that the conference
in a business meeting took cogni
zance of this and I think the coach
has a moral responsibility to uphold
an agreement between the coaches.
Q: Do you think that would affect
the coaches who were not in on the
agreement since there has been a
large turnover the last couple of
years?
A: This agreement was brought up
in the coaches meeting and it was
circulated to all the coaches.
Q: Certain situations have been
prominent recently involving ref
eree’s decisions. Do you have any
power to make decisions concerning
a game after it has happened?
A: Well, this was a mechanical
mistake by more than one person.
This was something that should
never have happened and it did
under certain conditions, but we
nearly had the same thing happen
last night. They were lined up but
the officials and the scorer and timer
did a good job in coordinating that.
Q: I have been told that Del Boss
officiates at Rice University and his
son is enrolled there on scholarship?
A: Well,if we were to eliminate all
of the officials, football and basket
ball, where their sons or daughters
go to school at another institution we
wouldn’t have any officials,
encourage families to go too
ference schools and this w<
defeating the purpose ifwea
of our officials to send theirc
elsewhere, and I think vvereij
terested in the youngsters goi
Southwest Conference schools'J
this, as far as I am concerned,j
really no bearing on that indivi
efficiency as far as officiating ism
cerned because you’re in twod
ent fields.
Kuhn and Finh
are at it again
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CHICAGO — Oakland A s owner
Charles O. Finley said last night
Baseball Commissioner Bowie
Kuhn is “out of his mind,” but that
he would attend a hearing Kuhn
scheduled over his sale of pitcher
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would attend a March 2 meeting
scheduled by Kuhn about the sale of
Lindblad from Oakland to Texas for
$400,000.
“Mr. Corbett has stated he signed
Lindblad to a contract on Saturday
and he stated he is not going to any
meeting,” Finley said.
“My attorney and I have decided
tonight that we will attend the
meeting, only because there’s no
telling what this man Kuhn might
attempt to do,” Finley said. “At
times, he doesn’t act very rational.
He is out of his mind.”
In June, 1976, Kuhn voided Fin
ley’s sales of pitcher Vida Blue to
the New York Yankees and pitcher
Rollie Fingers and outfielder Joe
Rudi to the Boston Red Sox for $3.5
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Kuhn said it was in the best inter
est of baseball. Finley then filed a
$3.5 million lawsuit against Kuhn.
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Finley said, “Kuhn has i
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the Oakland fans, the Oaklandlj
and all of baseball.
“It is no coincidence that the
deals in which Kuhn interferes
those made by Charlie Finley,
though there have been many
lar transactions during the last
eral months,” he said.
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York Yankees’ recent purchi
Jimmy Wynn from the Ath
Braves for more than $100,00
“Kuhn has no right to wit
approval of my sales unless the
have been violated,” Finley
“Kuhn knows there have not
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