Nationalize Officiating : a good solution!

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  1. paducahmichael

    paducahmichael Tiger Band Class of '73

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    SEC, Big Ten would benefit from nationalizing officiating - Cory McCartney - SI.com
     
  2. HuskerPride

    HuskerPride Founding Member

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    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.
     
  3. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    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.
     
  4. 00Tiger

    00Tiger Founding Member

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    They might as well. We will be socialist pretty soon anyways, so I have no reason to believe that officiating will not become nationalized .
     
  5. HuskerPride

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    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.
     
  6. lsudolemite

    lsudolemite CodeJockey Extraordinaire

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    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.
     
  7. fanatic

    fanatic Habitual Line Stepper

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    Or at the very least, it wouldn't give the perception of a conference agenda.
     

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