Poor Officiating Rears Its Head in Black College Football
We’ve seen this before, and we’ll likely see it again. Bad calls in black college football games. It was a significant issue last season, and it came up again in last weekend’s nail-biter between Jackson State and Fort Mississippi Valley State.
You can suspend officials until the blind mice begin to see, but will there ever be a fullproof solution to biased or unknowledgeable officials? Referees make mistakes across the spectrum of college football, but for an incomplete pass on a 1st and 25 to transition into a 2nd and 10?
No excuse. That’s just cheating.
No one is saying to get every pass interference or every holding penalty right on the nose. The game moves too fast for 100 percent accuracy. But calls that are obvious enough to a live crowd or a television viewing audience need to be made on a level of exactness. To do anything less, diminishes the sport, and damages the hard work schools put in to put black college athletics on the map.
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