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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3918169, member: 1220"] This fouling as much as you can get away with must be an SEC thing. In the Georga - Oregon game they were constantly beating the cr*p out of Sabally with no calls made. Then they would call a touch foul on the perimeter. They really need to improve officiating all across the board. There is more than one factor involved in why officiating is so poor. Too begin with they should eliminate people who not posssess a minimum standard of vision, visual processing speed and player position anticipation. This could easily be tested with those that do not qualify should be eliminated at the beginning. There ar just too many officials that do not have the required skills to do a good job. Officiating is not being treated with the respect it deserves. I don't hold with the idea that bad calls are a part of the game. Human error certainly is, but that is no excuse not to try to eliminate the protential for human error. Another problem is a lack of consistency in the level of contact allowed during games. We see some games where mugging is allowed and others where fouls are constantly called. The degree of contact has a definite influence on the game. Every officiating crew seems to operate under a different standard. You will always have some variance but not to the extreme we constantly see. They will also focus an specific areas during certain games. Sometimes they will focus on traveling calls. Other times the 3 second rule. I have been in the rooms with officials pregame and thats exactly what they do. It is a way to keep themselves sharp but is not condusive to consistency. If they had consistent training and remedial classes this would not be necessary. Basketball is probably the hardest game to officiate, which is why it is really important to eliminate those that really are in over their heads from the get go. They might be getting the best officials available, but they are still being drawn from a very poor pool to begin with. Good officials, much like good announcers, have to possess superior abilities in certain areas. That is not the way the officiating pool is being run though. It should require just as much of an elimination process as the athletes playing on the fields and courts go though to get there. For athletes and other vocations, people who do not posssess certian stills are eliminated right in the beginning. However for officials they just allow anyone to begin officiating at the beginners levels. [/QUOTE]

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