It's Time Everyone Quit The Pretending

The college umps, refs, and officials in the major conferences are not incompetent. If they were, that issue could be addressed. They are corrupt and crooked. That issue can't and won't be addressed. So, everyone will just go on pretending that there are no corrupt officials, just incompetent ones. And chit like what happened to our team on Sunday will continue to happen. No one is going to address it because it would expose too many corrupt officials and scandals. Too many teams who have been screwed would sue the NCAA into bankruptcy.

There is absolutely no way that there are not corrupt officials in college sports. Why do we never hear about any of them being charged? Why does the NCAA bend over backwards to protect and shield them?

Re: It's Time Everyone Quit The Pretending

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Re: It's Time Everyone Quit The Pretend

Jun 10, 2024, 7:09 PM

Officials in the NFL, NBA, and MLB all make significant salaries that are especially lucrative considering that is essentially seasonal work. College baseball officials are poorly compensated and it shows. If you work 5 games a week during the regular season, you’d pull in about $1000 a week or $16k for a season. It would be terribly inconvenient, if not impossible, for someone with a serious occupation. So it does not attract the best of the best. It may attract a few super ambitious folks intent on moving into officiating in a professional league. But they will move on quickly. And, of course, people working under this kind of circumstance would be especially vulnerable to financial inducement. I’m not even bringing this up in reaction to our series. It’s incredibly naive to have a billion dollar industry, that has an adjunct billion dollar gambling industry (an industry whose primary media partner is directly and indirectly involved in said gambling), and have essentially a network of amateur officials. Paying grown men $200 to officiate a game broadcast on ESPN is ridiculous.