Ran into a guy today who is an SEC Ref and I started asking him about the NFL Ref situation. He said that they were all told by their SEC officiating boss that any SEC refs that leave to go be a scab will not be welcome back into the SEC, and he thinks that similar "rules" were laid out in the other conferences. Also, and this probably goes without saying, that the scab refs will likely be blacklisted from ever doing NFL work again. That may help to explain why these scabs don't seem to be very good.