I don't disagree with this. Poor officiating is not just limited to the SEC (but a bulk of the problem lies within that conference), as the Big XII has more than its share of boneheads wearing stripes on any given Saturday.
Poor officiating happens all over and it's just a part of the game of football. Always has been. But the increasing objection is that the SEC refs sometimes seem to have an agenda.
They might as well. We will be socialist pretty soon anyways, so I have no reason to believe that officiating will not become nationalized .
Very true. It's not like the SEC refs have given anybody any reason to think otherwise, especially this year. I really hate to think that the SEC refs are "slanted," but it seems that Florida and Alabama have recieved the lion's share of good fortune from the refs this year.
Back when college football was more of a loose national association of regional conferences it made sense for the conferences to oversee training/quality of officials. I'm not sure if Parry's idea would elevate the overall quality of officiating, but if they're going to make awful calls, I'd rather they be consistently awful for all games.