Pac-12 General Counsel Called Officials During Game to Change Call
Pac-12 general counsel Woodie Dixon interfered with an official review of a foul in a game between USC and Washington State, resulting in the NCAA conference deciding to change its policy on non-trained officials weighing in on such reviews.
CBS Sports reports that Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott addressed the incident in which Dixon interfered with a targeting review during the game in September.
Tom Fornelli writes that reports indicate that Dixon, who is not a formally trained official, called into the Pac-12 replay booth and said he didn’t think a targeting penalty applied to the play. In the official game report, Gary McNanna, who was the replay official in the booth for the game, wrote that “a third party did not agree so the targeting was removed.”
