NFL To Go With Full Time Officials

[haleyrules]

Ha! Part time or full time incompetence...its the same, maybe worse!!

 

[Doomsday101]

I promise that I will be neutral

You would throw a flag on the opposing team for walking to the locker room at halftime. lol

 

[zrinkill]

About time.

 

[Melonfeud]

He Was an inspirational ball of fire whose laidback qualities exhibited while addressing life's adversities are truly blah,blah,blah,and exceptionally noteworthy!
Thanks Zimmey for starting off my day with the proper perspective,,,

 

[MRV52]

Let me get this straight. They are supposed to work fulltime which means only 3hrs a week. What do they do with the rest of the week, play Madden?

 

[xwalker]

I have no problem with full time but I think there will be some good and bad overall as with most things in life. Found this article interesting

You’d lose some quality officials if you asked them to choose between the officiating job and their other jobs. A veteran official with 20 years experience can make as much as $215,000 a year. A young official in year one or two would make approximately $78,000. Would Walt Coleman remain an NFL ref if asked to turn away from running his dairy farm in Arkansas? What about successful lawyer Ed Hochuli? Or Gene Steratore, who has a lucrative side job reffing NCAA basketball games? Further, if you told a young official on the verge of getting tenure in his main job as a teacher or school administrator he had to choose between that and his $78,000 NFL job, how many of the young officials would you lose? Former NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira estimated to me Tuesday that maybe 25 of the 135 officials would leave the NFL. That’s a lot of turnover. Add in the normal turnover of four to six officials in a season, and adding 17 more officials if the league went to an eighth official on every crew … that’s potentially up to 45 to 50 new officials, about three rookies per crew. Imagine the adjustment if the 17 crews have to work in three new members. For at least a season, it could be a nightmare.

https://www.si.com/mmqb/2016/11/09/nfl-officials-refs-full-time-bills-seahawks-mailbag

Those are current numbers based on part time salaries. I think full time refs will make more than 78k. The NBA refs make over 300k.

 

[links18]

$78,000 to start? That's more than most people make, but couldn't even buy a shack in most major metro areas right now with that.

 

[Bullflop]

I imagine they'll have one full time official assigned to every game to oversee the other ones. If so, it should be interesting to see if it helps.

 

[Alexander]

 

[RomoFor6]

Finally. About time this multi-billion dollar business decided to invest in some key employees whose performance can determine the outcome of its events.

Players stopped having to work a second job in the off-season at least 20 years ago.

refs didn't actually NEED to work a second job... they get paid over 150 K a year. A lot of them did anyways. Only thing that is different now is it is probably written in the contract they can no longer be employed elsewhere.

 

[diefree666]

Amuses me those that keep complaining about the officials and then immediately say this will not make a difference. Also laughing at those saying it will be harder to fire officials. How many have been fired say in the last 10 years under the current system?
This is a change which makes it an opportunity. Now it is up to the NFL to do something right for a change.

 

[erod]

About time. I wonder how many refs would prefer having a part-time job though?

Pretty much all of them.

Many of them are lawyers and businessmen that make good money. This would be a massive pay cut.

 

[erod]

refs didn't actually NEED to work a second job... they get paid over 150 K a year. A lot of them did anyways. Only thing that is different now is it is probably written in the contract they can no longer be employed elsewhere.

Several referees make a lot more than 150K at their primary job.

(And by the way, $150K ain't squat to these guys.)

 

[Nightman]

All the other major sports play 7 days a week and the refs and umps work all week

Most NFL refs work one game a week.... big difference

Let me get this straight. They are supposed to work fulltime which means only 3hrs a week. What do they do with the rest of the week, play Madden?

I like the Madden Idea

 

[Jake]

Awesome! Now they'll never miss a call, like those full time MLB umpires.

 

[Ranched]

Ha! Part time or full time incompetence...its the same, maybe worse!!