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[QUOTE="spo023, post: 915140, member: 3443"]
I know it sounds ridiculous, but covering the cost of all these officials is extremely expensive.  The big power conference schools can easily afford it, the middling BCS schools barely turn a profit, and the non-BCS schools have a ton of problems not creating a deficit.  Think of the schools in the Sun belt, Mountain West, Conference USA, FCS, that have to not only pay a few hundred dollars for a kid to fly to their school, but then would have to double that to pay for a parent.  The costs of officials seems like it would easily cost $100,000+ with travel, food, lodging.  So if a small school pays all that money for officials and most of those kids decide to commit to another school, thats a gigantic sunk cost that is hard to make back.  You'd basically have to double the budget for officials and put a lot of smaller schools that much closer to a deficit.  I know it's easy to think of the SEC, PAC, BIG, and ACC schools as being able to afford this, but for every big school, there are two small schools that have problems funding their athletic departments.
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