Forde: Blow the whistle on overworked officials

[Rich]

The only way this is going to change is to make these guys employees and pay them a salary -- something no conference (or the NCAA) has been willing to do.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

The only way this is going to change is to make these guys employees and pay them a salary -- something no conference (or the NCAA) has been willing to do.

Use some common sense? And develop new officials at the same time?

Blasphemy! Blasphemy, I tell ya.

Next thing you know somebody might come up with the dumb idea of also maybe using the senior guys as trainer/evaluators on their rest days if they actually were salaried. Get 'em out doing that in the smaller conferences. Maybe get a further positive return on their knowledge and experience. Naw, that'll never happen.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

The only way this is going to change is to make these guys employees and pay them a salary -- something no conference (or the NCAA) has been willing to do.

Or put stipulations in the contracts about activities permitted during a specified time frame before the game.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Or put stipulations in the contracts about activities permitted during a specified time frame before the game.

This would work, but only once all conferences do it. The Big 12 (for example) isn't going to be the first to essentially limit guys when the big dogs would then be incentivized to say, "Thanks, but no thanks, B12. I'll just go work B10/SEC games on those days and still be able to work MVC/Southland/Sun Belt/Whatever the night before."

While only those officials with real clout could pull it off (because they'd get hired in any of those conferences), they are the ones the rules are written for.