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Originally Posted by CraigHickman
Sure, the refs are only human. Sure, it's a hard game to call. Sure it's very complex. Sure the refs are only volunteers, but maybe it's time that changed. IF a team is paying around 6k to go to a competition, they don't expect to be sent home and finished for the season because some random guy who decided to be helpful doesn't know his job.
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We pay $6k not so much for the competition, but for students to have the opportunity to do something really cool and important in their high school life. I hear from almost every single parent of students on my team about how they wish they had this opportunity when they went to high school. The $6k is for that
opportunity. You want paid refs? Paid judges, too? Then you must be talking about wanting to pay $10k per competition also.
Now on the flip side - it seems that the games these past few years have been increasing the roles of referees in deciding matches. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't remember all this drama back in 01-04? It seems to have all started with that stupid 30 pt penalty triangle rule from '05. '06 had the offense/defense craziness (not too bad in retrospect), '07 with ramp nonsense (we were let down by non-calls refs didn't make at Bayou), and now in '08, you accidently back up over a line and -10 ?