Re: Officiating Tonight
I didn't see much of last night's game, but I can guarantee the guys working the game have significantly more training, performance review, and evaluation than any high school official at any level of any sport. Every official is graded on every play in every game. Those grades are used to determine post season assignments. Get enough downgrades and you won't be working at that level the following season. Fans won't hear about the grades and staff changes because they ultimately don't care unless he loses appendages. They'll also disagree with most of them anyway because they'll realize the officials are right a lot more than they think. No official is perfect and there are mistakes every game. Most of what fans complain about though are judgement calls they see differently or don't fully understand the rule or philosophy. That's fine and you are fine to complain as much as you want. But to say they are lacking in training and evaluation is absolutely incorrect.
I reread my post and I clearly didn’t my point well.
Let me ask it this way. Does the NCAA do the the training and evaluations nationwide?
Or do the individual conferences handle that aspect?
I think what a lot dislike is the lack of consistency week to week.
What I would like to see happen is conference affiliation be scrapped for the officials. Let them work sizeable regional groups of teams from different conferences. I would think this might eliminate some of the difference in how officials in different conferences call games.
Another question, at this level do the crews stay intact throughout the season, or do their rotate personnel?
I have tremendous amount of respect for the knowledge and perspectives you bring to the board.
I’ve never officiated football, but I can tell you that to be behind home plate all night you better grow a thick skin.
The thing is dislike in sports more than just about anything is “K-Zone” on televised baseball games. I don’t like it because you have the lateral perspective of where the ball crosses the plate. I get it, context matters
