Larger Crews

[Warrenkicker]

I agree that if more officials were to be added to the NFL and NCAA levels it would be more wing officials. Then the wings at the LOS could stay there and provide better coverage for blocking and holding. Then 5 officials could be watching pass patterns without having to run so far so fast. There may be a lack of coverage areas for all those officials with A moving in to score. The other option is to have a second BJ like 6-man to then have 8-man.

Baseball is the only professional sport I know of to add officials for the play-off games. I know some states will add officials for football in high school I still am not convinced that is a good idea. Professional football, basketball, and hockey work just fine with the standard number of officials. Baseball adds those foul line umpires but I don't think they really get much use out of them. Maybe a call every few years but they have the money to pay them so whatever. Soccer is the sport where I think they could use more officials. That is a huge field with 22 players and only three officials and two of them can't get on the field so there are only two really working the game at any time. They could do more with more eyes.