re: End corrupt officiating in the SEC

I agree with Aman, it's more a matter of SEC refs just being horribly bad than corrupt per se. Which sucks as the with as much money as the League is making now, it ought to have the cream of the crop. Having national refs vs league refs has been brought up several times but I honestly do not remember who keeps fighting it, the leagues or the refs as a whole. But, fwiw: back in the 60's early 70's, before there was so much money involved, the league had a hard time getting refs, period. So it was at the mercy of having to use former teams' players, and coincidence or not, bama & UGA provided a lot of the refs in that period. This according to a family member who used to work in the league office back then...yes, a bama grad.