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re: Should football officials be nationally assigned, rather than regionally assigned?
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:00 pm to Bear88
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:00 pm to Bear88
Using jr high games to work on your craft is a great way to hone your own skills and mechanics. Football is so tough on Friday nights or Saturdays since you get just 10-15 of those per year.
And full time officials? How’s that working out for the NFL? Those guys take a heap of criticism each week. I do prefer their system of review since it seems to account for the human error and impossible angles side of football.
I’ll never understand how a miss like the Saints - LA playoff DPI omission couldn’t have been corrected though. If everybody on TV, in the stands, and in the press box can see it, that needs to be the correct call. Not a Saints fan either.
And full time officials? How’s that working out for the NFL? Those guys take a heap of criticism each week. I do prefer their system of review since it seems to account for the human error and impossible angles side of football.
I’ll never understand how a miss like the Saints - LA playoff DPI omission couldn’t have been corrected though. If everybody on TV, in the stands, and in the press box can see it, that needs to be the correct call. Not a Saints fan either.
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Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:03 pm to Bear88
At the HS level and even travel ball level, local,administration and / or park hosts need to do a better job. Sometimes the directors and managers are so busy working and planning ahead, they can overlook something as basic as respectable fan decorum.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:16 pm to TroyTider
Basketball is essentially national assigned and I see no improvement
Posted on 10/25/22 at 6:38 pm to East Coast Band
National assigning is not about competency. That’s always debatable to a point.
It was a suggestion to eliminate bias. Or at least lower the incidents of favoritism.
It was a suggestion to eliminate bias. Or at least lower the incidents of favoritism.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 10:39 pm to TroyTider
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How would being full time eliminate perceived bias?
Was it bias or incompetence that was the issue during the ut game? Or both?
Why don't we just do it like the nfl?
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 11:08 pm to BFANLC
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Was it bias or incompetence that was the issue during the ut game? Or both?
I dont think bias played a part in it. I haven’t reviewed the game critically due to time and field of view constraints. I do think the crew body language and frequent huddling looked awkward.
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Why don't we just do it like the nfl?
I don’t think a full time salary would make a better decision maker out of a person who had to make constant split second decisions. If you watch the NFL guys, they make mistakes too.
Personally, I’d rather have a person calling my games of that magnitude with more at stake. a little 6 figure salary guy would be more susceptible to outside influence than a businessman in the midst of a career,IMHO.
I’d rather take my chances with a retail store owner, roofing contractor, or insurance agency owner, than some guy who was making $100,000 this season and selling plumbing at Lowes or manager trainee at Golds Gym next season.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 8:23 am to BFANLC
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Need to pay them enough so they can do it full time. Then they need to fire em when they do screw up.
They need to professionalize it something along the lines of the NFL....maybe some form of association for the P5 where the conferences share the costs.
The Bama-UT crew was just abysmal as was their performance the following week.
Posted on 10/26/22 at 8:55 am to 14&Counting
Not sure about bias , but the only way to improve , IMO, is to devote more time to the craft (full time )
Posted on 10/26/22 at 11:48 am to Bear88
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but the only way to improve , IMO, is to devote more time to the craft (full time )
No doubt it would help. But where do you get the action or games?
Posted on 10/26/22 at 11:49 am to TroyTider
Centralizing anything has never worked in history
Posted on 10/26/22 at 11:56 am to TroyTider
Guess like NFL… clinics , on site training, practices during spring ball . Heck they can make it where “you live in city X and we train you year round and send you on travel (games, practices etc ) as needed”… they need more than zoom and previous film critique once a week to be good at it. There will always be human error in it anyways . Replay just makes everything so obvious now days and makes officials look worse than they are. Tough seeing everything out there in Addition to catch/no catch, targeting, in or out of bounds etc
Posted on 10/26/22 at 12:09 pm to Bear88
There are always going to be some calls missed, due to angles and point of view, trusting your partners when they have a worse angle, etc.
Nothing beats real live action reps. But it seems we should have the technology to develop virtual training.
Football officiating will always be the hardest to perfect, due to lack of reps.
It ain’t tough. More like impossible.
Nothing beats real live action reps. But it seems we should have the technology to develop virtual training.
Football officiating will always be the hardest to perfect, due to lack of reps.
It ain’t tough. More like impossible.
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