GigEmLaw said:
I'd like to see a rule where each team can require a review of one play per game for any reason whatsoever (even if it is something that normally wouldn't be reviewable).
I also think adopting an oversight group of the officials like they do in MLB, assessing official performance, incorporating training and retraining requirements, and adding in a fine system for egregious calls/non-calls could clean up quite a few things.
Officials DO have assessments every single game they are a part of. They get graded out for their performance on a play by play and game by game basis. The SEC discusses with them as a group on Sundays of what went good, what was controversial and even what had to be overturned by replay at every SEC game that week. None of them want to be called out for missing a call or making a bad call either.
So these guys aren't just leaving their job at 5:00 on Friday and rushing to make it out of town to show up for kickoffs then head back home to kickback on their couches.
They put it time prior to, during and after each game. They want to be "correct" for their own job security, the fairness to the game, not to a favored school, and certainly not for some payoff to "help" a team on the field win a game. (sip ref has always been suspect in my eyes however)
They also have meetings during off season as well. They put in way more time than you think.
*They also don't call the game of the schools they attended (usually).
Fact is that they are gonna miss some at live speed that look different in slow motion on tv……. but they get the vast majority of calls right!