With ESPN hemoraging cable subscriptions partly because of such obvious officiating fixes by conference officials and even the NFL (most officials are lawyers, who by the nature of their jobs suppress factual evidence, making them perfect "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" candidates), the four letter better start demanding as unbiased officiating as humanely possible with their rights payments.
Every referee should have in depth (and periodic) background investigations, be required to submit to monthly in season polygraph tests to expose existing and evolving biases against teams, coaches and players, and be required to submit to monitoring of all their accounts and other financial dealings (real estate sales ala Tony Resco for example). Referees would paid a huge premium to undergo this and ESPN will save a business model starting to teeter due to wide spread apparent corruption.
Seth Blatter and the IOC are not the only sports authority figures with skeletons, much closer to home the likes of Dim Delaney, Mike Slive, Marky Mark Emmert and his NCAA Funky Bunch, Roger Goodell and yes, John Swofford all have dirty hands that only the money of something like ESPN can fix now...Or ESPN will see their golden goose die and themselves along with it.
