Refs don’t think we’re missing enough players

[wardlow]

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I wish I could be so bad at my job and continue to work. Honestly someone is going to beat the crap out of one of these refs at some point, and it’s going to be NCAA/Vegas’s fault. It’s shocking it hasn’t happened already. They are going to cost the wrong person too much money.

 

[Seth_C]

I wish I could be so bad at my job and continue to work. Honestly someone is going to beat the crap out of one of these refs at some point, and it’s going to be NCAA/Vegas’s fault. It’s shocking it hasn’t happened already. They are going to cost the wrong person too much money.

The problem is the way you are thinking about this. They are not bad at their jobs. They are doing as instructed. They make most of their money from Vegas.

 

[Seth_C]

Yeah, our fanbase well deserves the title of being one of the most obnoxious in sports.

Love how so many of our fans complain about refs, nonstop. Quite amusing, to be honest. Only on Rupp Rafters do you see threads before the game bemoaning who the refs are for the game. Gives our entire fanbase a bad look. But it won't stop. We can keep looking like idiots.

Or, at the very least, you can keep looking like an idiot. That's as certain as the sun coming up.

 

[wardlow]

The problem is the way you are thinking about this. They are not bad at their jobs. They are doing as instructed. They make most of their money from Vegas.

Maybe they are really good.

 

[Seth_C]

Maybe they are really good.

I'm guessing the really good ones, the best of the best, we never even notice they are cheating.

Unfortunately, nothing is going to be done about it. The conferences won't even force refs to sit with the media for questioning. That suggests to me that they are in on it. No reason to hand people the keys to determining the outcome of the game and then also make them above criticism. It just feeds the ability for Vegas to control outcomes.