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Originally Posted by kubrickfan
The officials may be independent contactors but the BT still signs them, they can release them or just not re-sign them. It is the BT's league, I just wish they would wake up and realize that its bad enough on the fans who have to put up with what IMO are mediocre teams in this league, its even worse to know that many of their contracted employees can't seem to follow a rulebook either.  |
Exactly. The "B10 officials are contracted" argument doesn't hold any relevance to the issue of bad calls. If you hire a temp to work at your company, he still has to do what you tell him right? If he doesn't do what you tell him, you have the right to fire him, correct?
Regardless of whether the officials are full-time employees of the Big Ten, the conference is still responsible for what they do or don't do. Either the Big Ten has instructed them to call in favor of certain teams (which seems far-fetched, but there's a lot of anecdotal evidence for it, this season and last) or the Big Ten isn't holding their contracted workers accountable for the piss-poor job they're doing.