Alanda
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(03-18-2023 11:40 AM)TigerBill Wrote: (03-18-2023 11:25 AM)Eagleonpar Wrote: Well what’s really needed here is a cooling off period. Imo. Plus I think a lot of us and I’ll throw myself in there take sports too seriously. It’s become a sort of false idol for me for sure. I know I need to focus on other things like my faith and my family. And I will try to do that from now on.
Sports in societies always evolves, as it did in Ancient Greece, Rome, etc. It begins as something done for exercise and entertainment, and becomes something done solely for reward. That's where we are now.
Pro sports is unwatchable now. College sports is getting that way. It's hard to view some of the horrific officiating and not believe it is influenced toward a certain outcome. Given all of this, I now view team sports differently.
There is little doubt in my mind that the terrible officiating was not also influenced by money. However, it's not just our games, it's across the board. So for me, such crushing and inexplicable performances like yesterday hurt far less than they used to, because the sport is not what it once was.
My biggest problem with officiating is that they are independent contractors in college. In college basketball if they're flying around doing as many games as they "think" they can handle (I've seen it said as many as six games in a week) then there is plenty of reason to believe that fatigue will affect their awareness and decision making.
(This post was last modified: 03-18-2023 03:32 PM by Alanda.)
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Haven’t posted or commented in years.
