College Football Officiating
I'm certain it's just my imagination, but it seems that conference officials favor the better teams in the league to protect their status for the playoff selection.
We don't need conference officials anymore with conferences stretching from coast to coast and border to border. It would be better if officials were national in scope and not paid by a conference.
This MIGHT eliminate some of the incredibly bad calls (even with replay) and the apparent bias which rears its ugly head in seemingly every game.
The alleged face mask call against Josh Burnam was as bad as any, and was made by an official who could not have seem the infraction as the QB was surrounded by at least 3 ND defenders. Instead of turnover on downs, BC goes on to kick a field goal.
Eliminate the conference bias, and at least then we are down to simply inept officials. No doubt, it's a challenging job; however, with the money involved in winning, you can't let officials determine who wins and who loses.
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What national in scope organization would they work for (Can’t be the NCAA for any number of reasons
I can’t think of who the employer would be?
Good Point
It would require establishing some type of entity that would provide officials to college football. I have no idea how that could be done considering that few, if any, conferences would agree to give up their resident officials.
I do know that the current situation is untenable for fairness in inter-conference play. It's come down to, "You have the home field advantage but we are bringing our referees".
Anyone who believes officials are unbiased is naive. There are rules like off sides that are clear and typically enforced appropriately; however, calls like pass interference, holding and targeting have become far too subjective, and are called at the most inopportune of times in the game.
These young men invest too much time and effort to be cheated out of the correct call.
He made a guess call and may have been looking for anything to affect the game at a crucial
time just because of his own insecurity about missing something, or worse yet because he was biased.(I don't think the bias thing is necessarily true, but possible) They are supposed to see or think they see a penalty before they throw a flag.
Conferences aren't giving up the power to control wins and losses. Just. Not. Happening.
As mentioned below, the Auburn - UGA game is as bad as anyone will see with regards to officials stealing a game and it isn't even an issue in the media any longer. Why would the SEC, or any other conference, give that power up?
There's literally no downside for them to fix games, and immeasurable upside. Certainly, the fake media outrage/backlash they get for a few days isn't enough to make them want change.
That was beyond negligence.
Recall that an official was "permanently suspended" for calls in the UGA-AUB game. There has to be accountability for the multiple egregious calls and non-calls against ND this year. I think ND should take legal action, there are millions of dollars and in some cases player safety at stake.
When the "networks" have rules analysts on staff who are fact checkers for sports: highly dubious.
Oh, he must have had his hands inside the back of his helmet. Well, how could the ref who was 15 yard behind the QB and blind to the alleged action be in a position to make that call in the first place? Crickets.
an official has to know that happened. U can’t think it happened or it looked
Like it did
I watch a lot of college football and say the level of officiating is significantly worse now than
10 years ago. Can’t interject yourself into the results. We seem to get our share of head scratchers and screw jobs.
Having said that, our team is very undisciplined and get flagged for way too much dumb shit. That’s on coaching
Years ago the mistakes centered around spotting of the ball and phantom holds on occasion but now
the mistakes are worse than ever. Even weather forecasters are better.
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