FWIW, I recently had the opportunity to overhear about 15 minutes of verbal give-and-take at the end of a certification session, during which a visibly overweight "veteran" official whined about the poor work by teenaged ARs. in my opinion, poor officiating is the scourge of all youth soccer, and more often than not, it's the self-important veterans on cruise control who are to blame.
Want to clean up officiating?
1) Annual required minimal fitness test.
2) Annual on-site, in-game evaluation by fellow officials.
3) Random on-site, in-game evaluation by anonymous panel of club/high school coaches.
