[Leftcoast]

At a previous (and purposefully unnamed) company we employed an NCAA ref who was in the Pac 10 pool of referees for women's basketball.  I saw him referee several Stanford home games and know he frequently traveled to away games up and down the Pacific coast.  He also occasionally refereed men's games for other leagues.  After working for us for several years he was found to have committed fraud by creating shell companies, issuing false POs and then using his own and stolen passwords to to receive deliveries and pay his own shell companies.  It was an intricate and long lasting scheme that embarrassingly took over a year to uncover. 

While this is evidence of a major ethical lapse there is no reason to believe it extended beyond our workplace.  However, whenever I hear people imply NCAA refs are a special breed above corruption I think of this man, his financial and ethical decisions ... and quietly have my doubts.

[Leftcoast]

At a previous (and purposefully unnamed) company we employed an NCAA ref who was in the Pac 10 pool of referees for women's basketball.  I saw him referee several Stanford home games and know he frequently traveled to away games up and down the Pacific coast.  He also occasionally refereed men's games for other leagues.  After working for us for several years he was found to have committed fraud by creating shell companies, issuing false POs and then using his own and stolen passwords to to receive deliveries and pay his own shell companies.  It was an intricate and long lasting scheme that embarrassingly took over a year to uncover. 

While this is evidence of a major ethical lapse there is no reason to believe it extended beyond our workplace.  However, whenever I hear people imply NCAA refs are a special breed above corruption I think of this man, his financial and ethical decisions ... and quietly have my doubts.