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Let's call a spade a spade. It appears..
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:14 am
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:14 am
The SEC is letting their officials alter games to make sure the programs who can generate the most TV revenue at the end of the year come out with a W. If you're a lower to mid tier team now, you have to also beat the officials. That's been proven with Auburn this year vs OU and Georgia and with Missouri Alabama yesterday.
With NIL it's starting to become more noticeable as there's more parity.
With NIL it's starting to become more noticeable as there's more parity.
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Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:14 am to carguymatt
Show proof or stop melting.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:19 am to carguymatt
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Let's call a spade a spade
Ok, if you insist... You have fagometric vaginosis, you are a conspiracy theorist and you are lashing out because your team sucks a$$. How's that?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:20 am to carguymatt
It's a business. Why wouldn't it be run this way? What other business do you know that lets its bottom line happen by chance?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:21 am to carguymatt
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Missouri Alabama yesterday
wut
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:21 am to carguymatt
No ref ever lost their job by making a call for Georgia or Bama. That’s not going to change in the short term.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:22 am to carguymatt
I just think they're bad. Maybe I'm wrong.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:23 am to BigC LSU
No. They’re able to be intimidated. That’s the opposite of what they should be.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:41 am to BigC LSU
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I just think they're bad. Maybe I'm wrong.
This is the correct answer. We can pay tens of millions to coaches and players but can't pay for professional officials. These guys are selling insurance during the week. It doesn't matter which crew or game you're watching. There are going to be horrible calls going both ways week after week.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:43 am to carguymatt
O.K. I'll play. Arkansas is a third rate program that has been eclipsed by Vanderbilt in the conference. Your next coach will be whoever Florida and Oklahoma don't want assuming that individual doesn't opt for UCLA and they will fair no better than Pittman because it ain't the coach...It's the school.
Enough of a spade for you?
Enough of a spade for you?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:46 am to Darindawg
Sometimes I wonder is there such a thing as a conspiracy factualist? You only hear about the "theorists". I wonder if Jesus thought there was a conspiracy to kill him, and he might very "theorized" about it? I mean, it ended up being factual, but there for a minute it was a theory....right?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:47 am to BigC LSU
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I just think they're bad. Maybe I'm wrong.
They're bad consistently, so that the obvious game-fixing calls can be explained away as incompetence. But it's obviously intentional. There's too much money on the line for each conference (read: network) not to have a thumb on the scale. FOX is the Undertaker and Disney is Stone Cold.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:49 am to Imber
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but can't pay for professional officials
Have you watched any NFL refs?
The problem isn’t pay status, it’s lack of accountability and real consequences. They get graded every year. Release the grades so that everyone knows who is good and bad, and if you score in the lowest 10% a couple of years in a row, you get fired and replaced with new blood.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:51 am to Imber
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can't pay for professional officials. These guys are selling insurance during the week.
I ask out of ignorance, is this statement accurate?
Given the amount of conference money that goes to each member institution, the SEC ought to be able to pay professional crews. There are 7 officials on a crew. There are roughly 8 - 10 games a week that require a crew, so that's around 65-70 officials. I read they make 1.5 - 3K/game; that's less than $50K/year. Make it a decent job. $100K/year for 70 officials is 7 million. That's less than $500K per member institution.
Make it a profession, not a side hustle.
Grade them each week. Film study in the mornings. Workouts in the afternoons. You miss a certain fraction of calls, you are relegated to the bull pen. Send you highest rated crews to the key match-ups where the stakes are the greatest.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:52 am to N0T SURE
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I wonder if Jesus thought there was a conspiracy to kill him
Jesus didn't have to theorize anything. He already knew the pharisees would come against him and turn him over to be killed. It prophesied hundreds of years earlier.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:53 am to Darindawg
So youre suggesting no one "conspired" against him?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:55 am to carguymatt
Mizzou fans aren't blaming the refs. Our guys made mistakes (Young mainly) that drew flags.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 11:57 am to N0T SURE
Maybe I didn't understand what you were saying, sorry. Yes, they conspired against him, I was just clarifying that Jesus already knew what was going to happen to him. He didn't have to 'think' they were going to do that, he knew they were.
Posted on 10/12/25 at 12:06 pm to carguymatt
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Missouri Alabama yesterday
Are you high?
Posted on 10/12/25 at 12:07 pm to N0T SURE
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So youre suggesting no one "conspired" against him?
He never said that. It was a conspiracy but He was Jesus and already knew about it- no theory was necessary.
If you were on the grassy knoll and saw the guy shoot JFK, it would not be a theory (to you). You’d just know.
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