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...Diehl has never overseen a game he did not complete in over 20 years reffing. "You'd better not quit during a game," Hannon says, as backup officials are only provided for tournaments. Diehl obviously takes the injunction seriously. He once broke his ankle after stepping on a loose ball but went the route anyway...
...Diehl started out in the game by playing on a Somerville High School quintet that won the state championship. He captained Northeastern's squad and after graduating turned in coaching stints at Huntington Prep and Christopher Columbus high schools...
...Diehl's genuine concern for the down-trodden young extends further than his ties with mercuric collegiate pheenoms who may rise to the galactic reaches of the NBA. His regular profession is that of probation officer. He invariably works with 17 to 23 year olds, who are mainly drug offenders. "It's kind of like officiating" he muses. "We have our successes and we have our failures but its also like officiating because we only know about our failures." On the side, Diehl conducts a five class clinic at Somerville High every year to prep young men for the ECAC...
...Diehl, along with the three other area supervisors for Philadelphia-Washington, metropolitan New York-New Jersey, and Upstate New York, is responsible for the laborious paperwork of pairing officials before the season begins. "We religiously hold to not overexposing our officials" he says, as normally a ref will work only two home games and two on the road for the same college...
...ratings are the catch-all that govern pairings and scheduling. Their justification lies in the dog-eat-dog theory that "you're only as good as your next game" and Diehl adds that "we manage through years and years to be consistently lousy...