Overview
- The ACC, Big East, American, Atlantic 10, Ivy League, CAA, Big South and Metro Conference announced the alliance on Monday to coordinate officiating across their leagues.
- Pualani Spurlock-Welsh was named supervisor for the ACC, Big East and American and will work with supervisors from the other five conferences who will report to her.
- The conferences said the alliance will recruit and retain referees, create geographically efficient assigning, and expand training, mentorship and evaluation to build a clearer tiered pathway from smaller leagues to power conferences.
- Leaders emphasized governance and shared oversight but did not publish detailed implementation steps, timelines or metrics for measuring improvements in call accuracy or consistency.
- The move formalizes a long-running informal arrangement overseen by Debbie Williamson, who retired earlier in 2026, and could change how officials move between mid-major and power-conference games and how crews are developed and evaluated.