Barry
Jacobs has a column up on officiating, the joint SEC-ACC venture, and Fred
Barakat's career. Barakat has come in for a lot of criticism over the years,
particularly for his referee camp, but Jacobs says, in fairness, that Barakat
did a lot of good things for the ACC.
He also brings up the gem that Barakat divided coaches into several
categories, some of which are hilarious. He never said who is in which category,
but a number of them you can guess.
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