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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/colle...0,1074202.story

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Retired Big Ten supervisor of officials David Parry reflects on career
The Big Ten's former supervisor of officials, who retired Jan. 31, talks with Teddy Greenstein about Bob Knight, "kicked" calls and the Fog Bowl.


David Parry, the out-going head of referees for the Big Ten. (Tribune / John Smierciak)

For years officials came to my house for meetings, and they'd see a big sign that said: MIBT—Make It Be There.

You strive to get officials to realize: When you throw the flag, make sure you have a foul. Coaches will forgive you if you fail to see something. We've caught a lot more heat—still do—for the phantom fouls.

I evaluate all 34 bowl games{+1} and then make a training video with about 150 plays, most of them good. But when I visit the crews, they say: "We have one goal, Parry: We don't want to make your video."

I've gone through about 40 football coaches in 19 years, and they have generally been high-road and professional. Most of time, if a coach calls me, he is right. He and his staff have looked at video. We've looked it. And we expect the call.

The best approach is to be totally honest and say: "Coach, you're absolutely right. It was pass interference, and we missed it."

Sometimes you're the whipping boy. They'll blast on you a little just for release. But the guy who blasts me Monday might call back to apologize Wednesday. He'll say, "You're a pretty good listener."

We kicked{+2} a safety in a Michigan State-Penn State game, and George Perles blasted me pretty good on Sunday and Monday. He called me on Tuesday and said, "You'll never hear another word about it."

I graduated from Wabash College in 1957. I started officiating for pizza money, beer money. Two games for five bucks in the intramurals. And I enjoyed it. After I got out of college and started coaching and teaching, it became a nice way to augment income.

I climbed the ladder and got into it full bloom. In 1969 Big Ten supervisor [of officials] Herm Rohrig gave me my break. I worked Big Ten and MAC hoops for 20 years.

I worked several of Bob Knight's games. One time at Purdue, another official T'd him up. It probably could have been avoided. I let Bob work me over pretty good, and at least he got his wrath out of his system.

I was the side judge for the Fog Game{+3}. It was like being in a twilight zone. At its worst, we could only see 4 or 5 yards. Little, if anything, was called. I guess that was the good news. If you did call it, nobody knew if you had it right or wrong.

I live in Michigan City, 60 miles from Soldier Field. I was thinking: Am I gonna get home tonight?

Terry Porter made that call{+4}. I really think what they had was defensive holding right at the line. Unfortunately, there was no call for that. Then a pass was thrown, and a late flag came in. It looked pretty bad because the call was made by the field judge; the line judge passed on pass interference. Obviously, Miami was quite upset.

I was at that game. I do think there was a foul, defensive holding. I don't think there was pass interference or, certainly, (there was) very thin pass interference. Unfortunately, that's what they announced.

The big mistake{+5} was not having a replay. Clearly and obviously, the ball came out before the Illinois kid was down. It was recovered by Ohio State in the end zone, so it would have been a touchback.

I don't want to bad-mouth the guy, but our man upstairs should have reviewed it. He did not. He is no longer with us.

We got bruised in '02 because of three or four high-profile plays we got wrong. That brought about discussion for replay.

We had a meeting and proposed three models: The NFL, which was way too expensive. A modified NFL, which was also too expensive. I proposed one and Jim{+6} teased me and called it the Michigan City Model. It was a TiVo setup.

Jim did a splendid job of convincing (the NCAA rules committee) to let the Big Ten experiment with it. From there it grew, and now it's part of the landscape. We have a better system now with some sophisticated machinery.

1 — As national coordinator for college football officiating.

2 — "Kick" is referee-speak for blowing a call.

3 — The Dec. 31, 1988, Eagles-Bears playoff game.

4 — Porter called pass interference on Miami cornerback Glenn Sharpe, allowing Ohio State to force a second overtime and beat the Hurricanes in the Fiesta Bowl to become 2002 national champions.

5 — Illinois' Daniel Dufrene fumbled at the end of an 80-yard run at Ohio State in 2007. But Dufrene was ruled down. The Illini scored a touchdown and won 28-21.

6 — Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany.
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