You hit the nail on the head in your last paragraph. Officiating is not going to improve until more people get into it. What is discouraging is for a young official to get started, and then have coaches and fans howling at him the whole game. I was pleased to see a couple of obviously young officials calling one of my son's games recently. I was also glad to see the fans and coaches lay off of them when they made a questionable call. We all need to accept the fact that officials are fallible, but are the only ones there that have no vested interest in the outcome of the game.
