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The mistakes that the officials made today are not all that different than what the officials in the NFL made last year. I think that the current officials are just under a stronger microscope. We've seen games where fouls were missed last year, flags waived off that shouldn't have been, you name it and it happened last year. It doesn't matter which official is working, the same mistakes have happened before and they'll happen again no matter which group is working.
I give the guys credit that have been working because in years past the lower level college conferences have been overlooked when it comes to the NFL hiring them. I think the current NFL officials have been doing as good as can be expected and they have proven that you can hire from other conferences other than D-1. It's sort of like the teams that are starting to realize that even some players in lower college conferences are draft worthy. Perhaps now the NFL will realize that a future Super Bowl official may very will be officiating in some D3 conference. There are officials all over the country who are good enough to be D-1 but have fell through the cracks. Some of that has to do with geographics so you get left with working D2 or even D3.
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