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Old Tue Sep 11, 2012, 03:09pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Rich View Post
There's a lot of time, effort, and sacrifice that NFL officials make to get to that level. No NFL official is going to be hired until he works quite a while in Division I. No officials get to Division I without putting in time at smaller college levels. No officials get there without putting time in at HS and lower levels.

The replacements have taken the ultimate shortcut. Why should that be praised?

Ultimate shortcut? I doubt it. I suspect most of them have been working just as long and just as hard as the one's they're replacing. They just didn't have the right connections at the right times to get the job or just missed the cut.
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