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Football Officiating => National Football League => Topic started by: clearwall on August 23, 2011, 11:33:02 AM

Title: How often
Post by: clearwall on August 23, 2011, 11:33:02 AM

How often do NFL officials come from the college game and how many skip that step? I dont have any idea, I just remember reading an interview with Hochuli talking about how he got into the NFL after working local pee-wee and HS games. Is it more common for NFL guys to go step-by-step or what? I see a lot of pretty young NFL officials so I'd be surprised if they put in 10-15 yrs in HS then another 5-10 in college and finally to the NFL.

Title: Re: How often
Post by: Grant - AR on August 23, 2011, 01:29:56 PM

Quote from: clearwall on August 23, 2011, 11:33:02 AM

How often do NFL officials come from the college game and how many skip that step? I dont have any idea, I just remember reading an interview with Hochuli talking about how he got into the NFL after working local pee-wee and HS games. Is it more common for NFL guys to go step-by-step or what? I see a lot of pretty young NFL officials so I'd be surprised if they put in 10-15 yrs in HS then another 5-10 in college and finally to the NFL.

I could be mistaken, but I don't think you will see any NFL officials who don't have some college experience.  They may not have many years of college experience, but they will have some.

Title: Re: How often
Post by: Chester on August 25, 2011, 04:36:23 PM

I'm pretty sure Hochuli worked in the PAC 10 or the WAC.  He didn't go straight from High School to the NFL. 

Title: Re: How often
Post by: Grant - AR on August 25, 2011, 07:20:09 PM

I know Wikipedia isn't necessarily always true, but according to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Hochuli), he worked in the Pac-10 before going to the NFL.

Title: Re: How often
Post by: TampaSteve on August 26, 2011, 03:38:26 PM

Heck, I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember hearing that in order to work NCAA DI most supervisors want at least 5 years of DII or DIII.

Title: Re: How often
Post by: Grant - AR on August 26, 2011, 11:36:06 PM

Quote from: TampaSteve on August 26, 2011, 03:38:26 PM

Heck, I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember hearing that in order to work NCAA DI most supervisors want at least 5 years of DII or DIII.

That is the general rule.  There are exceptions, but they seem to be few and far between.