Are officials ruining college sports?

College sports are becoming more and more dangerous as time passes. Many would blame this on the officials. Many fans are complaining about how inconsistent the calls are in college basketball games. Other fans complain that there's so many unfair plays, biased judgment, and flat-out ridiculous calling that I just can't take it anymore” a reporter claimed from Bleacher Report. There have been many instances where one call the official makes determines the outcome of the game. This is why many fans are starting to take a stand on NCAA officiating. 

 

Some could argue that they are just doing their job. When a game is clearly biased and one team is getting more calls than the other, fans are going to notice and disagree. This has become more of a problem recently, basketball players are getting injured, in football calls are made that just take up more time and some calls don’t make sense to fans or the team themself. Fans have started to say that they can’t watch games anymore because of how bad the calls are or how physical games have gotten. 

 

We can’t play sports without officials therefore by taking them out of the picture there would be no sports. But many fans agree that something needs to be done to protect the players, and make the game fair again. 

 

Do you think officials are ruining college sports?

 

What can be done to help this?

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  • I really like this topic and it deserved more love(comments).(+5). You did a good job replying to student comments as well. I do think  your summary could be a bit longer overall.

  • I don't think that officals are completely ruining sports. Yes, they do make mustakes like any human would make. I don't think that refs are bias for one team. Many bad calls are for the refs being stupid in the croud and the refs are over it.

  • I do not think that they destroy the sports. Sometimes it happens that you make a bad call, I mean you can not see everything, and that way it happens that people make mistakes. People are just offended too easily, when someone does not call it the way they want.

     

  • We ALL make mistakes beacuse were all human, Im not a ref but im sure its a hard job. So much happing at once, so no I do not think officals are ruining sports. Most of the "bad" calls are from the fans drama being spread around. If there was a review for every bad call the games would take a whole day to finish.

  • I don't think officials are entirely ruining sports. Officials definatly could be trained to make better calls, however I don't think they 100% could make a team lose or win a game.

  • I do not think that officials are ruining college sports. There are some bad calls, but the officials are human and will make mistakes. I also think that the fans exagerate how bad the calls are. This usually happens when a call doesn't go their way. I don't think that there is a way around this besides having more reviews, but that takes a lot of time and makes the games boring.

    • I agree, some people take the calls too far, and by reviewing more of the calls it just takes more time. 

  • I don't think they are ruining sports. I think there are some very bad calls but I wouldn't go to the extent that they are ruining it. During any game there are so many things to watch and to call, it would be hard to get everything correct. Some people are dramatic about calls and take them way to seriously.

    • I agree, they aren't ruining sports and many fans take it too far. They aren't going to be perfect.

  • It can depend officials make desicions and some poeple don't like it can loss their love for the sport, but people can take one call to far and get kicked out of the game. You can't get rid of officials, but they do have club sports officiate other games to make it cheaper

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