Not nearly enough.
Having grown up with Arizona State and attended USC, I can attest to the Pac 10's officiating as famously, historically atrocious, probably worse than some Texas 5A high school conferences, probably enough to impugn the quality of football in the conference as a whole.
That crew should be fired, and about four or five others should follow them out the door.
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Having attended close to 200 PAC 10 games, I agree with your take on the officiating. It's been consistently bad. However, while I understsnd why Sooner Nation lost its collective mind after the officiating fiasco, the Oklahoma reaction has become an overreaction. In fact, it has transitioned from righteous indignation to outright insanity.
Oklahoma president David Boren called for the OU-Oregon game to be eliminated from the record books.The actions of school president David Boren make you wonder whether he isn't actually the booster club president instead of the guy running an institution of higher learning. (Some of these words were liberally "borrowed" from Pat Forde of ESPN.COM)
I agree the death threats, etc., are going overboard. And Boren, as the saying goes, just wants a university the football team can be proud of.
But, as the saying goes, heads should roll. I had no idea that conference crews still worked inter-cnference games; I assumed some trading was involved, as they are in bowl games.
No, the game won't be wiped away (or how many Arizona State-Arizona games are removed? A dozen?). But the latest proposal, the officials' pool, should be looked into if conference trading during the regular season is unworkable.
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