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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
The thing is that there isn't enough money to be paid to these guys for them to become professionals. IMO the head referee makes 950 a game and I think the other guys are like 650. So again you get what you pay for. I mean in Canada now you can't live on 17 grand a year even if it's a part time job. Chances are the guys career as a salesman or accountant is far more important and most of these guys don't really need to referee. Even the NFL which is richer than half the countries on this planet only recently went to full time officials and still pays it's guys like 100 grand a year IIRC. Being a football referee is crappy work that pays even worse.
I think football is a miserable game to try and officiate as there are rule violations on pretty much every single play. It's trying to determine which ones were flagerant enough to call. CFL player in particular are bad because well....if they could be effective playing by the rules...they might be NFL calibre.
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The CFL game in particular is tougher because the field is bigger. One suggestion I have is to redeploy the linesman and leave the line calls (offside, procedure etc) to two off-field officials and move at least the linesman back to twin with the back judge and essentially split the back judge duties.
As well the CFL needs to relax the roughing the passer criteria to somewhere between where it was in the 90's and where it is now. You can tell that many of the goofs who vote in the rules never played defence. In many cases the defender is placed into a situation where if he lets up on the QB, the QB would have the option of pulling back a pass, or from diving feet first, and instead making another move. Under the current QB protection rules defenders are screwed.