Problems with officiating do not stem from some vast conspiracy that Mike Slive and the referring crews have entered into. That is proposterous and I think any realistic person could never rationally defend this. These problems stem from a process in which there is no true accountabilitiy. It starts with the officials themselves. These guys basically volunteer to do this. They are pretty much old SEC players who are trying to relive old glory days. The problem is this results in inate bias which is not easily overcome. For example, Joe Smoe in the back of his mind thinks that Bama is better than State. So if a play occurs in which that scenerio is not the case, they look extra hard to find out why. More often than not that results in a favorable ruling for Bama. The second problem is the review process for these officials. Its all done behind closed doors and who knows what they are being graded on or what those grades even are.
My suggestions: first of all, get some people who didn't play in the SEC and maybe don't even live down here. Second of all, pay them an amount to where they take this seriously. Third, make public their grading. Anything veiled in such secrecacy cannot on its face be an effective review. Some sort of public oversight is necessary to make sure the league office is doing their job in grading the officials. Fourth, fire Rogers Redding. Obviously this guy is an idiot. Anyone who has the audacity to say this year is on par with previous years has his head in the mudd. Does he not remember freaking suspending a crew this year. I don't think they have done that before. Fifth, when you hire another head of officials, make his job tied to the performance of those officials. It will hurt if he loses his cushiony job. Sixth, spend the money to get some extra cameras that look down the goals lines and sidelines and teach these idiots how to use the technology. </p>
My suggestions: first of all, get some people who didn't play in the SEC and maybe don't even live down here. Second of all, pay them an amount to where they take this seriously. Third, make public their grading. Anything veiled in such secrecacy cannot on its face be an effective review. Some sort of public oversight is necessary to make sure the league office is doing their job in grading the officials. Fourth, fire Rogers Redding. Obviously this guy is an idiot. Anyone who has the audacity to say this year is on par with previous years has his head in the mudd. Does he not remember freaking suspending a crew this year. I don't think they have done that before. Fifth, when you hire another head of officials, make his job tied to the performance of those officials. It will hurt if he loses his cushiony job. Sixth, spend the money to get some extra cameras that look down the goals lines and sidelines and teach these idiots how to use the technology. </p>