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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3910951, member: 1220"] Officiating has long been over due for a massive change in the way officials are developed. There are specific skills that officials must possess that can be developed to a degree but basically they are either there or they are not. That would be the excellent analytical vision and processing speed. You have to be able to see it and then process what you see quickly. You can have all the game experience you want but your abilitty will ultimately be llimited by your inate abilities. This ability should be there at the entry level. It would eliminate the type of incompetence we constantly see. Officiating in games began by taking fans out of the stands to call games. It gradually evolved but not at eliminating certain people at the entry level.. With the technology available to day, test could be developed that would screen out those that did not have the talent to become an excellent official. Officiating should be given the same level of selections as players go though. An incompetent official can impact the game more than a single bad player. . [/QUOTE]