His job is the who, what, where, when, and how. So it falls upon the fan to bear the brunt of awful, over-officiated games. Players get frustrated when we don't rise to their arm-waving pleas of louder support when we know with statistical certainty that it's impossible to play 35 seconds of defense without an official calling another inconsequential foul. Administrators don't care because they get boatloads of cash regardless of the incompetence or deluded self-importance of the idiots with the whistles. TV doesn't care because ratings are okay, and besides, every stroll down the court is more time to promote the Sunday movie.
Nobody cares because everybody's making money.
So I'm just a grouchy old fart, pissing into the breeze of progress, making a mess of my trousers in the process. Of course not. However, from the depths of my heart I believe each of our major sports is in the process of killing itself. Baseball due to decades of administrative stupidity on a level impossible to collate, football and basketball from too many years in the whorehouse with television. Pro basketball's been humbled into acknowledging some of the weaknesses of its game.