The reason for the lack of quality calls and just blown calls, is two fold: 1. As a rule, a person should not coach, referee, or step onto a field, in which they have not been prepared for, from the time they were young, and a step by step process over time, to make them excel at what they are trying to achieve. The first thing, no matter whether you are a woman, or a man, at some time in a person's life, they decide to do something they like.
Let's take, just for an example, baseball (as it is an intricate game, fast, with ultimate athletes, where umpiring, as seen in the "No, No-Hitter Game" with the Tiger's Armando Galaraga, where the "Pro" umpire, blew an obvious call, costing him a perfect game.). Growing up, most kids start playing at 5-7 years old, and they start with tee-ball. Then, after a couple years of "tee-ball," they move to coach/machine pitch, to kids pitching, and that is where people start to quit playing and players are seperated. At this age, around 9-12, tournament teams are chosen after regular seasons, and the group is honed even more, to go compete in those. The next 4-5 years is that person, practicing, playing with their pitch backs, hitting in cages, and really making strides, because high school sports is coming. In high school, kids get better and better coaching, summer leagues, both high school and summer (Legion, Babe Ruth, and other assorted competition leagues are formed), and this whittles down the players more. To guess, by the time a player is a senior in high school, there are only about 2-5% of players, which started in "tee-ball" still playing, as they either went to other sports, decided to go to choir/debate, or just to concentrate on grades. However, the players left have skills and some will not go past playing in high school, some go to Jr. colleges, some other colleges, and then the best get drafted/signed. However, there is a giant difference between the player that starts, as a rule, later in life, or just tries to jump in, in high school. It is a situation where if you do not start with the rest, then you are probably not going to catch up. This is kind of true with just about anything.
(Example: Motor cross. Those "X Games" people, in motor cross, didn't just jump on a motorcycle and start jumping 25 foot jumps. They started with a bicycle, then a small motorbike, then a dirt bike, and so on, till they were driving and working on tricks, speed, and know the whole bike, like it is a part of themselves.)
Now, back to the referees. There is "an unwritten rule," in coaching, a person (as a rule) should not coach past where they played, by more than one league/step. If a person stopped playing football in high school, and then decided after college, they would become a referee in football, that same person probably shouldn't start out with, OR GO PAST, high school (or less) and/or small Jr. colleges. As that person has not seen the speed of college football, the new rules, and they would naturally be intimidated by the players they never were good enough to be, or any other list of reasons (guys' who will obviously go pro, or ruining rankings in college football). Therefore, take the referees today, and most haven't even done Division I NCAA Football, and some have only done high school football. If a person, a referee in the NFL now, is deciding whether "MegaTron" got both feet in bounds on a touchdown pass, and Champ Bailey was covering him, both are getting into that referees face, to plead their cases. If you are "star struck," "show any intimidation," and/or any kind of weakness, then that referee is toast. This is just for the stars.
Then the speed, technical side of the game, and the fact that NOBODY who has not played a professional sport, a Division I sport (to be around pro-type players), shouldn't (as a rule) be allowed to be a part of refereeing an NFL game. Case in point, Green Bay Packers vs. Seattle Seahawks, on Monday Night Football, where millions are watching the game, and all the news, fans, and sports announcers have been on the "replacements" all Sunday, the week before, and now you are on national television. Is this a good idea? Obviously not, as it wasn't just that last call, but calls throughout the game. However, just look at the last play of the game. A long "Hail Mary" pass, where Golden Tate pushed a defender completely down, then a G. B. player jumps up, making the interception, but Tate gets his hand (not arms, not an ARM, but from the forearm down), into the play. One "replacement" signals stopping the clock, the other, standing right there the whole play (who should have caught the "Tate Push"), signals touchdown. This all happened in about 3-4 seconds, a time frame any "ordinary"/"not trained"/"not in the game past a lower level" can't make calls that are split second. It would be like putting Albert Pujols on an "X Game Motorcross Race," where he would probably drive slow, crash, and not know anything about what that was. No difference here. These referees, need to go back to high school, because the game is just to fast, to intricate, and the games mean to much.
There is your reason, though, for why they are not able to do the job, and it isn't their fault. Honestly, if most people were offered $75,000 a game to referee, most would take the job, whether they could do it, or not.
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