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Met Head Referee Jason Autry today
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:23 pm
I was kinda taken back that he works and lives in my neck of the woods. He is slated to ref the LSU - Miss St game this weekend. Didn’t get to talk long but he did mention that he never looks at the ball because it never does anything wrong. He is an Okaloosa County Engineer who has never played a down of football but loves the game. Just sharing
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:28 pm to Shalimar Sid
Don’t a lot of these guys have legit college degrees? Pretty awesome they do it.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:30 pm to Shalimar Sid
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never played a down of football
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:32 pm to Shalimar Sid
How do you not play at least one down of football and then become a SEC ref?
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:36 pm to Raging Tiger
quote:I'm an attorney and one of my cases is against an attorney who is also a white hat (Crew cheif) in the ACC. He went to Texas for undergrad and LSU for law school, so he can't officiate either of their games.
Don’t a lot of these guys have legit college degrees? Pretty awesome they do it.
One time I called their office to discuss something related to the case, and his associate picked up. Told me the partner (the ref) was out of the office doing "some sort of refereeing or officiating." The associate doesn't follow sports at all.
So at his client's deposition, I brought it up and asked him about it. Pretty cool stuff and they all have some pretty good stories.
This post was edited on 9/13/23 at 7:40 pm
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:37 pm to Gulf Coast Tiger
Rules have nothing to do with your personal football skills. Your ability to interpret the rules and apply them in a high speed chaotic environment is what is important.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:37 pm to HubbaBubba
Meh, if a bunch of women can ref NFL games, I don’t see the issue.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:43 pm to Shalimar Sid
Buy that baw a steak dinner asap
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:44 pm to SloaneRanger
Should be all women imo. They’re great at seeing everything a man does and pointing out what he did wrong.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:46 pm to tlsu15
So u want to up the penalty flags by 200%
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:47 pm to Shalimar Sid
Bill the King of college football has (now former) SEC referee Johnny Crawford on his show once-a-week. Its a great segment... very interesting to hear his perspective from his 20Y+ career as a major CFB referee
This post was edited on 9/13/23 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:49 pm to Shalimar Sid
What did y’all talk about?
Posted on 9/13/23 at 8:25 pm to Shalimar Sid
quote:I read this as "meth head referee" and thought he can't be that bad.
Met Head Referee Jason Autry today
Posted on 9/13/23 at 8:28 pm to Shalimar Sid
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who has never played a down of football

Posted on 9/13/23 at 8:41 pm to Shalimar Sid
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but he did mention that he never looks at the ball because it never does anything wrong.

Posted on 9/13/23 at 8:57 pm to Gulf Coast Tiger
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How do you not play at least one down of football and then become a SEC ref?
Because you don't have people beating down the door to become officials, that's why!! I've been a high school football official for 17 years and I would be willing to bet you that the average age of the HS official here in Mississippi is mid to late 50's. There are no young people interested in getting into it. It's gotten to the point that they are having to play games on Thursday and Friday nights because they don't have enough officials.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 9:06 pm to tonydtiger
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Because you don't have people beating down the door to become officials, that's why!! I've been a high school football official for 17 years and I would be willing to bet you that the average age of the HS official here in Mississippi is mid to late 50's. There are no young people interested in getting into it. It's gotten to the point that they are having to play games on Thursday and Friday nights because they don't have enough officials.
I do understand that. I am an official for Soccer in Mississippi. I try to get young kids to ref when they are done playing HS soccer and rarely do they come out.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 9:07 pm to Gulf Coast Tiger
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I do understand that. I am an official for Soccer in Mississippi. I try to get young kids to ref when they are done playing HS soccer and rarely do they come out.
And most of the people you do get don't make it to a third season since the fanboys are generally assholes to them.
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