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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
We have FAR too many schools (and therefore games*) for the supply of capable officials in Georgia, and it's an aging pool to boot, so there's often years of history between schools/coaches/ officials adding to the mix.
*we've already seen games being moved to Wednesday nights due to a shortage of officials - capable or not - and it doesn't feel like Tuesday night is far from becoming a thing. Which will in turn pretty much destroy 8th, 9th, JV football in terms of both scheduling and officiating. But with around 200 games every Friday night and 6 man crews, the supply simply doesn't come close to meeting demand. The supply of remotely capable officials comes much shorter.
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You don't see the correlation there? Refs are in short supply because its a thankless "job" that opens you up to threats and harassment. If they were treated like human beings there may be more people willing to do the job.
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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Try watching people you love have years of effort taken away by officials that are either inept or outright crooked often enough, maybe it'll make more sense.
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People are going to make mistakes. People yelling at them and threatening them isn't going to make that change. The purpose is just to make the harasser feel better, for people that lack power and satisfaction in their own life, they get off harassing people who can't do anything back.
Do you get mad at the "people you love" making mistakes when they play sports? Does that also ruin the experience for you? Maybe the refs should start yelling at the athletes when they fuck up. I don't see what the difference is. When you play or officiate a game you're going to a bunch of things will and some thing not so well. Missing a call in real time isn't any different than missing a tackle or missing the man you're supposed to cover on a play.
If it's so easy to get all the calls right to the satisfaction of everyone, why is there a ref shortage? Where are the refs that can do this well? I've never heard a good answer to that. For a group of people to be objectively terrible there must be, for the criticism to be valid, someone, somewhere, that can do it to everyone's satisfaction.
I think every youth sports coach or super-parent should have to volunteer a stint as a ref.