T1B

Hey, it is just in the discussion stage at this point, but there is a very good chance that this could happen. These two are by far the best officiated conferences in football and they would be the best match together.

Positives are the officials wouldn't see the same teams as often, calls and mechanics would be standardized, and we would no longer hear someone say that is a "Big 11 call."

Negatives are the travel, coaches feeling less in control as there is a larger pool of officials, and having a larger membership body vs current.

Thoughts? I for one am all for it.

In!!!

Anything that spreads all the texass officials out more is good by me.

Sun Coast,

As soon as more states move to NCAA rules at the HS level you will see less and less Texas officials in the Big XII. Plus, there are not as many as you think.

why does rice fan sockle the big12 and tejas nuts so much?

Adelpiero wrote:why does rice fan sockle the big12 and tejas nuts so much?

Why do you have no couthe al?

The man went to Rice so he obviously is of some intelligence. I would think that an intelligent person, who loves football, would respect the best footbasll played on earth. :wink:

They definelty do.

I would go.

1) Big Ten
2) Big 12
3) Big East
4) Pac 10
5) ACC
6) SEC

and the rest some where in between with the Sun Belt Conference capping off the bottom.

Have you seen tape of the OU / Tech game from last year? Do you REALLY want to sit here and tell me that the Big 12 is ranked 2nd?

Is the US School for the Blind ranked 4th?

the_ouskull

With all due respect for our resident refs, I cannot agree that the Big 10 officials are very good. In fact, I think they are actually rather poor.

Some will go ahead and say that they are overly biased...not me, though. I stand firm in the belief that they are often incompetent, though. Sue, you can't get everything right...but you can avoid being wrong consistently, right?

the_ouskull wrote:
Is the US School for the Blind ranked 4th?

the_ouskull

If you were looking at BlindRef's poll when you said this?

I will have to say yes they are.



m2

Is there a single sport where the refs don't suck. Most people (especially Laker fan) think the NBA refs control the game and determine the outcome.

Everyone including myself thinks that most College officals suck.

face it they have the hardest job and most probably do suck, I think it's the level of suckage that matters most.

I will say this, I know a couple of veteran HS refs and they have told me several times that if they wanted to they could throw a flag on every down. But they know that all they would really be doing is disrupting the game. They have to use a lot of judgement when calling a game.

the problem is when refs dont call a game consistently, if theyre going to call holding tight, call it tight for 4 quarters of the game, the players will adjust.

PSU, I agree with you...the refs in the Big 10 could be better. But as Lefty says, maybe this merger would bring more well rounded crews and we would get games called a little cleaner.

I still think one of the major problems is misuse of replay. Rather than call the game like they would, I think refs rely on replay and thus change the scope of the game.

That's another reason I wish they'd use the NFL system for replay - take it out of the hands of the officials. Let them call the game to the best of their abilities...and let the coaches instigate reviews.