Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
But they didn't miss the call on purpose. Firing experienced refs won't do anything but create a toxic work environment and less experienced officiating crews.
If firing people for being incompetent pisses of their fellow remaining refs, then the whole league of refs should be fired. No profession I've ever worked in tolerates this type of incompetence. And I fired a guy last week. The work environment didn't become toxic afterward. Instead, his coworkers said to me "glad he's gone because he wasn't good at his job." It actually improved the environment.

Any referee who has pride in his job realizes that this is a smear on their profession and would want these guys gone. I've never been upset when an incompetent coworker is fired. Never. I've always been glad to see them go.