This has been proposed many times and it fails every single time for a few reasons (basketball officials are included on this)
- The NCAA knows how much $$$ it would cost to do this for football and basketball when you start to realize you have to pay health benefits, dental, vision, etc. and retirement. They don’t want to do that.
- Most of the pushback (especially in basketball) comes from the officials and the conference assignors themselves because of how much $$$ they make.
- There are too many teams/games to have just 1 assignor—you’d have to have the Head of Officials and then have Associates underneath that person to help with assigning because you’d also have to assign D2, D3, and JUCO. You can’t just have it for D1 only—but if they did, they’d probably have to make a rule that those in D1 can’t officiate D2 and below because they don’t want you getting hurt, etc. (sort of how NBA refs don’t get to ref college ball when they don’t have a D1 game)
There are a few more reasons. This is the loudest I’ve seen anyone yell about it in football. In basketball, it gets yelled about all the time.