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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3369932, member: 1220"] The problem with poor officiating will not be fixed until the entire perspective of officiating is changed. What we have in place now is a system that eliminates the worst of the weak pool that it draws from. You can not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Even in those articles, it refers to training officials. Well, there are some things that just can not be taught but rely on skills someone is born with. There are specific skills that will define and create the level that an official is capable of. A very important skill is to be able to notice and process and analyze visual detail rapidly. It is a skill similar to what makes an excellent point guard or QB on a football team. Right now the pool that officials are drawn from is filled with huge numbers of individuals that lack a high enough degree of ability in that respect. We just need to look at the history of officiating to understand how this all came about. Initially, officials were just spectators pulled out of the crowd. This was long before sports became big business. The sports have grown, but the officiating has not caught up. The officiating pool is still mainly part-timers who liked sports but could not keep playing for one reason or the other. liking sports or even having been good at a sport does not necessarily make a good official. What I am saying is that officiating should be treated as a vocation from the start. You begin by eliminating those that do not possess a minimum visual processing speed. There are tests available to do that right now. To produce high-quality officials, the first step is to set a minimum standard that has to be met. Doing that, to begin with, leaves a core group with a much higher ceiling. Sports today make money and it seems that some of that should find itself in the hands of one of the most important aspects of each individual sport. You get what you pay for and the number of elite officials are few and far between. As fast as the games are being played today, if you do not have those specific skills I mentioned to start with, you just can not do the job. [/QUOTE]

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