LOL
This is the biggest pile of clownish, conspiracy theory, loser bullshit I think I've ever read on this site and THAT really is saying something.
Do you know the quickest, surest and clearest way to identify the uneducable utter ****ing moron in an argument? Seriously, do you? They
just just call names.
We can disagree about officiating without being personally insulting. Your position, such as can be extracted from the early adolescent insults you threw at me, is supported by nothing. Nothing, that is, but the equally adolescent belief, learned in FCA or some HS locker room, that athletics is the only human endeavor in which corruption does not exist. All those billions and billions and billions of dollars running through many layers of many hands each and you think no one would tilt the scale to benefit the profit centers and, in some situations, to just benefit the individual hand that's reaching for something? I mean priests rape children and bishops cover it up and then cardinals cover the bishops? Or, we could say a Penn state coach rapes children, the head coach covers it up and then the university president covers the head coach. Time to grow up Buttercup
The current status quo is enormously enriching for the NCAA and its constituent conferences and members. The internet and TV based media is making a killing for itself and creating an enormous downstream of money for the product-college TV rights. Real life isn't Hoosiers, its Hobbes, a nasty, back stabbing place where the currency of the realm
is the currency of the realm. Out here in the real world the kind of money involved in just Big Ten BBall, much less the NCAA as a whole, is the kind of money people are willing to kill to obtain or ensure. I'm not saying anyone's getting murdered but developing an economic system where the profit centers continue to profit hardly seems farfetched, or "
clownish" when judged against the degree of corruption of the larger world in which college athletics exists.
And then, watch the games and see incredible calls that cannot be explained by what physically happened. But the same thing happens endlessly. Occasionally a blue blood falls or another rises, usually only for a limited time, but the cycle endlessly replicates. The system never changes much over time, especially in the B!G Ten. The continued employment as officials proves the Big Ten approves of the guys like Larry Scriotto-the modern archetype of the dishonest official.
Nor is this a "conspiracy" in the sense you suggest. Its a shared and common belief in a system; a system that is working and does not require reform. Sparty is supposed to beat Iowa, every time every year. Its news when Iowa upsets Sparty. It isn't Tommy, you know the deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard, officiating these games. The officials know the history and the standings when they officiate games. The refs would necessarily have a preconception of whose team has better players and who is supposed to win. That effect would be largely subconscious in most of the officials but fairly overt among some, like Teddy V who more or less admitted a preference for MSU-and now he has returned to Big Ten games. Then there are the gamblers. Again, not many but undoubtedly some. Its the lure of easy money. I hear it has a pretty strong appeal.
What I've typed is an argument. I have explained the reasons I think my opinion is right and yours wrong. I could have done that without insulting you but, given your post, I chose not to do so.
Now we could go down the road of exchanging increasingly venomous attacks but I'd prefer not and I'm sure the other members share my preference. So if you want to argue about officiating, fine. Just make your argument and don't call me names. If so you will find I will do the same.
