Overview — Great Lakes Collegiate Football Officials' Clinic

Welcome to Great Lakes Collegiate Football Officials' Clinic

The Great Lakes Collegiate Football Officiating Clinic has developed a reputation as one of the premier clinics in the land.

Covering 3 days, we provide participants with both classroom and on-field instruction in an effort to advance your knowledge and understanding of the NCAA rules, enforcements and mechanics.

The clinic concludes with attendees given an opportunity to work a spring scrimmage at one the region’s collegiate teams, while observers evaluate your performance and provide feedback and post-game video review highlighting your strengths and areas in need of improvement.

Clinic Overview

This is our 26th annual clinic. The Clinic will begin with registration from 9:30 AM - 11:30. Opening remarks will be at 12:00 Noon. There will be dinner on Thursday; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on Friday; Breakfast and Lunch (at scrimmage site) on Saturday.

By starting the clinic on Thursday at noon we have added the needed time to enhance your classroom experience. The clinic is divided into three stages.

First, we will have several presentations regarding collegiate rules and how they relate to running, passing and kicking games. Participants will attend each of these sessions.

Secondly, we will address mechanics by breaking into 5 groups: Line of Scrimmage officials (LJ and HLJ); Deep wing officials (FJ, SJ); Back Judge; Umpire; Referee; and Center Judge and Replay. Participants will attend one of these sessions.

Finally, on Saturday, groups of officials will travel to a scrimmage site where they will have a pre-game, work a scrimmage, receive on-field instruction, and participate in a post-scrimmage video review.

The Clinic will again be at the Best Western / Comfort Inn / Okemos Conference Center. These fine facilities and accommodating staff make it an ideal site for our classroom and breakout mechanics and rules sessions.

The Stillwater Restaurant will again provide excellent food for the event. In addition, it’s central location to the colleges and universities in the region provide a reasonable commute to our Saturday scrimmage sites.