I judged collegiately at the same time as Brandon Callis, have seen him judge many shows, great judge. I think most of these are great judges, people just tend to not like judges that dont like the type of cattle that person is bringing to them. I dont knock a judge for not liking my cattle as long as he is consistent with what he picks, and what he says on the mic actually matches the cattle.
We are hauling a heifer right now that is probably to long spined for her frame, I mean freight train long, and this weekend a judge said we really needed to make her longer bodied to make her competitive. I dont disagree with our heifer placing where she did, but I hate when a judge says something like that which completely doesnt match the animal he is talking about.
Again, I think most of these judges are pretty good, yeah a few of em have been known to be a little political at times, but its hard to find a judge these days that isnt political at least sometimes. I dont think any of them are overly political.