NFL Replacement refs...What if?

[alexhortdog95]

 

[ScriptOhio]

Re: The agreement between the NFL and the officials will be an eight-year deal. Average referee salaries will go from $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019. The referee pension plan will remain in place through 2016 and then will be frozen. It will be replaced by a defined contribution agreement starting in 2017 that will feature contributions from the NFL of $18,000 per official (eventually increased to $23,000 per) along with a partial match of a 401(k).
The NFL will have the right to hire full-time officials beginning in 2013. And the NFL will also be given the right to retain additional officials for training and developmental purposes.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/e...inent-would-allow-refs-to-work-thursday-night

Well that seemed fairly easy/quick to agree on; and both sides seemed to get what they wanted. So why did it take so long?

 

[WolverineMike]

173K per year is pretty good for four hours a week for 4 months. Where do I sign up?

 

[Bucknut24]

 

[exhawg]

173K per year is pretty good for four hours a week for 4 months. Where do I sign up?

http://www.naso.org/Resources/BecomeanOfficial/FootballOfficiating.aspx

Start at your local high school, do really well and you'll get there in 10 years or so.

Hopefully with the increase in salary and the ability for NFL ref to be a full time job it will make the refs even better. Let them watch film all off season to work on their skills.

 

[LitlBuck]

http://www.naso.org/Resources/BecomeanOfficial/FootballOfficiating.aspx

Start at your local high school, do really well and you'll get there in 10 years or so.

Hopefully with the increase in salary and the ability for NFL ref to be a full time job it will make the refs even better. Let them watch film all off season to work on their skills.

$173k is ridiculous for a part time employee who might not even have a college education and one of the reasons that they did strike was because management wanted some full-time officials. So I doubt if these guys will be watching any film to improve their skills.

 

[exhawg]

$173k is ridiculous for a part time employee who might not even have a college education and one of the reasons that they did strike was because management wanted some full-time officials. So I doubt if these guys will be watching any film to improve their skills.

Hochules would disagree

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ready-to-work-with-an-assist-from-ed-hochuli/

In an effort to minimize rust that may have accumulated since the lockout began in June, Hochuli (who else?) led refs through a boot camp (what else?) to prepare them for the moment they got the nod to come back to work. Every Tuesday night, SI?s Peter King reports, Hochuli, the league?s best-known, buffest, biceps-iest ref, has been holding rules-related conference calls, with 90-110 of the 121 officials participating.

 

[OH10]

$173k is ridiculous for a part time employee who might not even have a college education and one of the reasons that they did strike was because management wanted some full-time officials. So I doubt if these guys will be watching any film to improve their skills.

It wasn't a strike. It was a lockout. The distinction is important.

And the classification of "part-time" vs. "full time" is irrelevant. The former NFL players giving analysis on ESPN are part time. Most of them don't have a college education. But I'm sure they're highly compensated.

You get paid according to your replacement value, generally. The NFL tried out replacements; didn't go so well.

 

[Bucknut24]

awwww yeaaahhh, Ed Hoculi is doing Bengals-Jags game

 

[ScriptOhio]

Yeah, but keep in mind that the "regular refs" are just one questionable call (that goes against the home team) away from getting booed too.

 

[Coqui]

If you're really suggesting that the number of screwed up calls isn't drastically increased (and therefore the integrity of the game is compromised) with replacement officials, then you need to pay closer attention to what's been going on. Because you may just be the only person in America with that opinion.

Watch as carefully now as people did with replacement refs, and you'll see just how bad it is. (now granted there's a chance the normal refs will overcompensate to make sure people won't say it)

 

[Jake]

"Real" ref Gene Steratore is doing tonight's game. Hmmm...why does that name sound familiar? Oh yeah, I remember. He and his crew missed a fumble at the goal line with 2 minutes left and the Dolphins leading by 2. Instead, Pittsburgh got a TD and won. A controversial missed call that changed the outcome of a game? I thought that never happened with the "real" refs?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRInQyUV16k&feature=related"]FumbleRefSky Dolphins vs Steelers 10/24/10 Worst call ever - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

You got kin who were replacement refs, Jake?

 

[Jake]

They keep scrolling the officials names and numbers on the bottom of the screen. Are they going to announce them to the crowd and send them out one by one with pyro and smoke, too?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

They always did want to be the center of the game. :tic: