What you think of Bobby Knight's comments about officials?

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Originally Posted by jritchie

Was watching interviews the other day and caught Bobby Knight's on ESPN, they were talking about the officials, surprise. He suggested that games would be officiated a lot better if our officials were more fresh for the games. He says some guys call 5 some 6 nights a week and are worn out by this and just barely make it through some games. He said that we should limit our college games to 2 maybe 3 at most a week to have better called games. What does everyone think about that? I know it makes a lot of sense in a way, but do we have enough officials to cover so many games if we limit them to just 3 a week? probably not possible.

Of course there are enough officials to do it. It would be one thing to do that many games in your own neck of the woods and be home every night. But these guys are flying somewhere new every day and then expecting to be fresh physically and mentally? It would be hard enough for a 30 something let alone the age a lot of these guys are. But everyone is an independent contractor and fill their calendars as they see fit. I guess the barometer is the observer's reports on their games.