Memo: National football league prospecting lower-division college ranks, semi-professional leagues for alternative refs

At the begining of June, because the National football league was settling using the referees union trying to iron out an offer to help keep game authorities working, the league's director of prospecting, Ron Baynes, sent a memo to any or all scouts. It had been essentially a contingency letter just just in case talks unsuccessful.

They did. Game authorities are locked out but this memo, acquired by CBSSports.com, which seems in the whole below, remains a amazing document. It essentially outlines exactly what the National football league wants in the alternative refs. And what they need is frightening.

The pertinent part happens when Baynes informs scouts what type of refs they must be attempting to recruit.

He creates:

"1. The Official who've lately upon the market from the effective career attending college officiating and it is still physically in a position to officiate at an advanced of competency.

"2. Lower division college authorities, professional league authorities and semi-professional league authorities whose strategic window for advancement has virtually closed but who be capable of work greater levels but simply got overlooked."