re: Analysis on Alabama and Tom Ritter

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Yeah - I know he doens't call games, but the head of refs in the SEC ought to have ZERO ties to any school in the SEC.

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Two things.

First...while he doesn't call games, he oversees current officials. He is their boss. Every official that calls games in the SEC reports to an Alabama alumnus. Let that sink in you fans of the remaining 13 universities.

Second...think about the idiotic notion that by making sure alumni do not call games that involve their alma mater you are somehow taking the potential for frickery out of the system.

Hypothetical:

Official Jones graduated from Florida...so he can not call any games that involve UF. But...he can call games that can and do directly effect the fate of Florida, does he not? Could he not, through a call in a game between a one loss UGA and a 2 loss TENN not potentially aid a one loss UF by making calls that go against UGA that end up in a loss?

For years Steve Shaw officiated games in the SEC. No...no BAMA games. But he sure as shite officiated games that directly effected his alma mater.

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Even if he is the most honest guy in the world, its the perception of improriety that gives rise to all these conspiracy theories.

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This.

I mean...so no BAMA fan will step up and say this doesn;t seem odd to them? Fine. Tell you what...let's pack up the SEC offices and roll them on over to the west a bit to New Orleans. We can replace Mark Womack with some highly skilled and qualified LSU graduate, and we'll replace Steve Shaw with the same. then, we'll restaff most of the day to day operational folks with locals. No worries, though...just because they are from Louisiana will not mean that all of them are LSU fans. and, let's be honest...even if they are, it's not like they'll allow that bias to show through in their work. Everyone knows that when people take a paycheck for a thing bias goes out the window.

Anyone in?