For As Much Money the Big Ten Takes in, the Quality of Officiating is Embarrassingly Awful
/Written By Alex Compton and Sammy Jacobs
The Big Ten Conference makes mountains of money every year. In the 2014-15 athletic season the Big Ten brought in $108,498429 in revenue according to an article in the USAToday. Business is great for the Big Ten and its member schools. However, there is one aspect that is a black eye for the conference and turning some fans off, especially in football. That black eye is the quality of officials. For an entity that rakes in that kind of cash, it is difficult to believe that they cannot find competent officials. Over the last couple of weeks and for the better part of four decades Indiana football coaches, players and fans have had to deal with hundreds of head scratching calls that seem to come out of "bizzaro" world.
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