Oklahoma Playoffs -- Update

[Rich]

Originally Posted by umpjim

Now that that's settled as I believe it should be, is the rule kick of the enforcement of this particular rule something that should not be expected of playoff officials? Or would many not have gotten the enforcement correct. Is it correct that there is a sore point regarding the suit that brought the rule inception? This baseball guy would think that if you know to throw the flag you would know how to enforce it.

Football is a strange sport -- it's got a LOT of rules and enforcements and a lot of officials think to themselves "that's the white hat's job" on a lot of crews. Shouldn't be that way, isn't that way on good crews, but it is far too often.

So if the white hat has a brain cramp, nobody steps up. Surely he knows the rules and if he doesn't, so what -- I'm not the white hat.

Playoff selection -- when it's made using metrics that have nothing to do with how good the crew actually is -- like coach ratings or geographic selection, there's no guarantee that the crew that works is one of the best X in the state. Just no guarantees. One person in Oklahoma makes these selections and there is no way he knows if all those crews are any good -- in my mind, the best way to make these selections is to do them regionally and have someone with knowledge of officiating and these crews help to make the selections.