Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott does not believe that coordinator of officials Ed Rush should be fired for telling referees to target Arizona coach Sean Miller during meetings before the conference tournament. "I do not find anything that rises to a fireable offense or a breach of ethics or a breach of the integrity of officiating or the program," Scott told ESPN.com's Andy Katz on Tuesday.
Scott's comments to Katz came a day after the Pac-12 concluded that Rush was joking when he offered a group of referees $5,000 or a trip to Cancun if they ejected Miller or called a technical foul on him during the Pac-12 tournamnet. Miller was hit with a technical foul during the semifinals of the tournament against UCLA for arguing a double-dribble call against his point guard Mark Lyons.
Arizona lost the game 66-64, which led Miller to go on an animated postgame rant about the technical foul, waving his arms while repeating, "He touched the ball" five times in a row. Scott told Katz that Miller and UCLA coach Ben Howland received a pregame warning regarding his sideline behavior.
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