You can confine your answers to the period during which you have been alive, because who knows what happened back in the 1930s 🙂

I want to know if you think there has ever been direction (whether communicated in an official way or between two guys in a bar) where the conference leader clearly indicated they wanted the official to try to achieve a particular result (other than calling the game straight up). And don't count gambling corruption — this is referring to a result that was "better for the conference."