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Originally posted by TravelinMan
I'm not so sure it would end a D1 official's career. Perhaps that is just perception. Know of any whose career has been shortened because of that? Don't mean to be a pollyanna, but I just am not aware of such things. Any known cases of officials being berated, demoted, fired?
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Aloow me to clarify. I'm not saying he would literally never work another D1 game. I'm saying he would never work in a game of such magnitude again.
For me, I want the big game. That's what I work for, to be the best, to be in the best game. When I get to the point where I'm no longer in a position to work those games, it'll be time to hang'em up.
An official who makes this call has probably put himself in that position. I'm not saying it's right. I'm saying that politically, that's what would happen.
Let me further clarify that the profanity wasn't directed AT anyone. No, that doesn't make it right either but it allows the official an out. Whether Hall warned him or not, the replay didn't reveal.