CHARLOTTE — Alberto Riveron is on the hunt for sugar.

It's Friday night inside ACC headquarters in uptown Charlotte, and halftime of the first game in a rare doubleheader offers a brief reprieve -- and a chance for the conference's supervisor of football officials to grab a Cuban coffee and a second wind before the long night ahead.

One problem: The sugar canister is empty. Riveron leans over the counter, tearing open packet after packet until a small white mound forms in a container for use later that night.

How much coffee does this guy drink?

"You'll see Saturday," he says with a grin. "Eight or nine shots, at least."

Riveron, who worked 17 years in the NFL as an official and supervisor, is the point man inside the conference's Game Day Operations Center, located on the 12th floor

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