Sarah Thomas seems to have boned him here. Rookies make rookie mistakes. The white hat gets the blame, that’s the way it goes.

Harvard needs to start an NFL Officiating degree. NFL provides scholarships. Starting pay for graduates is $200,000K a year, full-time. Problem solved. Even if their judgment is for shit, put them on the sideline holding the chains and let them chime in when someone fucks up.

The NFL rakes in billions of dollars and hires people who have dedicated a career, education, MBA, etc. to run every facet of the league but it hires officials who throughout their entire existence as a sports official have been part time employees.

NCAA and NFL rules are pretty similar for the most part, but there are differences for several reasons: