It's all the refs fault. We need to take immediate action! Damn sips....
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Fatboy Thaddeus3:28p, 9/4/24
From my watch the officiation wasn't that one-sided...but if Alberts & Elko don't have multiple employees prosecuting these kinds of concerns, full-time, we are guaranteed to never establish ourselves in the elite. Wake up, eSIPn has put us in the same "bad guy" doghouse as FSU, and we will have to shatter many tough barriers to get the same perennial sweetheart treatment that teams like ND enjoy.
Officiation is one such barrier. How are we gonna do it?
We need dossiers on every individual ref, their biases & tendencies, and what kind of real-time pressure they'll respond to.
We need a research team that will compile historical biases and publish open-source review collateral & summary data.
We need an internal review team that is externally dreaded and feared, willing to do everything from backchannel the SEC head office to publish evidence of malfeasance directly to media members.
On gameday, we need at least 2 people in the booth watching every ref, tracking their calls and non-calls, ready to feed lobbying points to our sideline staff.
We need friendly social media channels that will livestream real-time (seconds to minutes after calls are made or missed) officiation reviews, along with stiff "fair use" legal protection (or workarounds thereof) to enable on-the-spot delivery of convincing visual evidence.
No, I'm not joking. This is a serious issue. It may not be front of mind for most, but now is the time to start laying this foundation and building out this wing of our program.