Depends on the info. If you say "NPPL is actually spending $100,000 per event on reffing, because they have to pay for this, this and that...", and those are smart things to spend money on, I'll say 'My bad'. Or if Missy can actually demonstrate NPPL is generally paying $250/ref/day in compensation (even including travel/hotel/etc).
But I'd be extremely surprised if either were the case.
I should have been more specific in the original post - I used the generic word "reffing" to refer to reffing wages. You've taken that to mean reffing in it's entirity, and argued that I'm an idiot to think NPPL only spends $18,720 on reffing each event.
Of course, that's silly, but it's beside the point - $18,720, less than 3% of the event budget, is far, far, far too little to be spending on referee compensation. Even if you tack on some extra bodies for the Pro fields to get you up to $22 or $23k it's far too little.
And while I'm sure there is other money spent on the reffing effort, beyond paying Dan, NPPL seems to have done a very "good" job of making sure it's as little as possible. No cold water provided for refs, no food provided for refs, and seemingly (according to Shamu and folks I've talked to) no hotel or other travel reimbursements. Plus hitting refs with things like greater tax burden and "recertification fees".
NPPL *USED* to do things like bring entire crews of refs in from Europe, back when NPPL reffing was much, much, much better. Is anyone arguing with this? That NPPL isn't spending nearly as much as they need to or used to to provide good refs? What happened?
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? I say that NPPL is in charge of referees, so NPPL must be responsible. You say I just have an anti-NPPL agenda. If so, who has actually bumbled the reffing?