“… Falk points to the TV across from his desk and the item sitting above it. ‘That’s the bad-call brick,’ he said. ‘It’s foam rubber. I’ve been known to throw it once in a while.’
“As the Big Ten’s associate commissioner for officiating programs and the primary supervisor for men’s basketball officials, Falk spends most of the winter looking out for bad calls. He oversees every element of men’s basketball officiating, from hiring officials to scheduling to payroll to evaluations to rules interpretations to arena security/atmosphere….”