Here's how to fix instant replay reviews

#26
#26
Seriously tho. Two things would be helpfulI IMO. #1 A time limit as mentioned. #2 Some sort of "Official Explanation" later in the week.

Maybe I have a utopian idea @ #2, but the mystery seems to make the conspiracy theories grow. But, who knows engaging it more may be like stoking the 🔥 already started.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I dunno. That is pretty bad, but the series against Bamma where they missed a facemask, late hit on the QB, and the late hit on the receiver after he ran out of the EZ pretty much sucked too.

Do you remember when that one was that you mentioned? I'd love to see that again.
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2012. Score was 10-7 us. 7:26 left in the 4th.

Lol.

The loss to break our win streak against them.

Small numbers at work caused me to need glasses. The glasses caused me to have a hard time remembering stuff.

It would be interesting to know what really happened.
 
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ClockworkOrange said:
Let it be totally interactive and the fans vote to uphold or overturn the call. No refs, no league office, no nonsense in the booth, just BAM, everybody has say 5-10 seconds to vote.

Benefits: near-instant results, the game can flow smoothly again like in the old days, getting right back to the action, and, best of all, the teams with the most rabid fan bases can nix calls that go against their team. Talk about an incentive to watch! And you know dang well advertisers and TV types would jump all over this.

Who decides what plays to review? Not the refs. Give each coach a certain number of freebies. Sure, Bama and others would try to stack the deck, but they'd also get flooded with underdog voters from all over the country who would love to see them go down.

Now, if instant replay ACTUALLY WORKED, the above idea would be ridiculous. But as the years have gone by, I've seen as much incompetence or outright chicanery in the reviews as there ever was in real time back in the "day." At least the above notion would speed things up and throw some fun into what has become tedious idiocy.
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Please don't drive, or vote, or have children.
 
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ClockworkOrange said:
Let it be totally interactive and the fans vote to uphold or overturn the call. No refs, no league office, no nonsense in the booth, just BAM, everybody has say 5-10 seconds to vote.

Benefits: near-instant results, the game can flow smoothly again like in the old days, getting right back to the action, and, best of all, the teams with the most rabid fan bases can nix calls that go against their team. Talk about an incentive to watch! And you know dang well advertisers and TV types would jump all over this.

Who decides what plays to review? Not the refs. Give each coach a certain number of freebies. Sure, Bama and others would try to stack the deck, but they'd also get flooded with underdog voters from all over the country who would love to see them go down.

Now, if instant replay ACTUALLY WORKED, the above idea would be ridiculous. But as the years have gone by, I've seen as much incompetence or outright chicanery in the reviews as there ever was in real time back in the "day." At least the above notion would speed things up and throw some fun into what has become tedious idiocy.
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Yeah, I think home field advantage might play a major factor in that.
 
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Let’s face it gambling in college football has made the game a farce. Officials,players and coaches all have a part in how the game will turn out. Now when you look at SEC refs they are either stupid or corrupt. I’m going with corrupt. Ohio State got a taste of what the SEC schools put up with our Alabama led officials. Too much money for this to come out in public but in the end the game will go away like NASCAR has vanished. Feel bad for the younger generation who will never know how great this past time was.
 
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TJVol95 said:
No it should be two geeks who have no dog in the fight who know the rules like the back of their hand.
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With the fact that disappointed play by QBs and other position players spark death threat phone calls and letters, and even stalked, you want to geek fans at risk? The other posts about gambling and other monetary influence are spot on. But you show a gross lack of understanding of human behavior in general, and fan behavior in particular. The answer to the idea is just NO NO NO NO.
 
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I do remember the Vandy game in question. That horses rear end of a Vandy coach challenged the spot of the ball and they moved the ball forward when you couldn't see where the ball was on the replay. I think they were right with the correction (I honestly thought he made the first down) , but if there has to be indisputable proof, there wasn't any there.
 
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There is always bias evolved always. There should be three guys watching replays one from each team and a independent. But what do I know look at our politics that system doesn't work either.....lol
 
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The speed of the game, and the crashing together of a dozen or more bodies makes it difficult for the on-field crew to get them all right, or even close it seems. A lead official in the booth, with the right to call penalties or overrule calls would help. And, of course, he couldn't be allowed to be from Alabama.
 
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ClockworkOrange said:
Not the fans at the game; folks would vote from home watching TV (or streaming, so yeah, I guess you could vote from your phone too at the game -- but home field wouldn't matter). Now teams like Vandy...yes, they would most certainly be screwed! Do we...um...care?? :)
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Let me just say I think the idea is terrible to begin with but just to play along, there would be no way to let fans at home vote. Not only is the game on a 10 second delay already but then there are different transmission delays depending on how you are watching it over the air vs cable vs satellite vs streaming.

Ever been watching a game and talking to someone else on the phone watching the same game and one of you is a play ahead of the other one?

You can’t even sync the radio broadcast to the TV broadcast anymore.
 
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rikberry31 said:
This the most terribleist ideas in VN history, maybe world history. You want a bunch of drunk mentality challenged Bammers deciding replay? Wait that’s what we already have.
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Bammers - - - Do they have the ability to use social media? Typing and computer skills are required for this activity. They would struggle with this sober much less drunk.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Fire Bama Steve Shaw, make referee evaluations public/transparent, and outsource the referee assignments and replay reviews to a unrelated third party firm that has no ties to any SEC school....
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I use you post to respond to what I have seen this year and so far in bowl season....

The SEC crews, to me are the best I have seen this year. I know we see them and all their short comings every week. But watch other leagues, man, they can and are for the most part really bad. Just to point out a couple b10 (unless you are OSU, PSU, UM) and the SWC (or what ever they call themselves now days - B12?-) these guys have allowed the whole dam- league to do whatever they want, unless someone jumps off sides, block in the back,etc. where everyone can see the foul with their own eyes. I know we have our problems but to me, they seem small as they stack up against the rest.

Regarding instant replay. The explanations being offered by the official doing color has open my eyes to some of the official interpretation of what a ruling is based on.
 
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#49
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Get rid of them, they don’t work. So damn convoluted given the ridiculous rules and half the time, at least, after they review the play they still get it wrong. Do away with it.
 
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