Here's how to fix instant replay reviews

[ClockworkOrange]

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.

 

[Volunteer_Kirby]

No

 

[JOHN ROCKER]

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.

Yeah some bad calls do happen. Your idea isn’t great tho. That’s being nice

 

[rikberry31]

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.

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.

 

[VFLCodyGBO]

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.

Soooooooo, the home team gets all the calls their way while the away team gets screwed?

 

[Iam4utalways]

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.

The worst review I can remember is the one against Ky. They fumble, we recover and hand the ball over to the ref. Replay said they fumbled and recovered. They went on to score and win. Worst review I can remember.

 

[GAVol]

Lol... read our football forum For 5 minutes and you know how well this idea would work.

Take the ref on the field out of the equation. Stick 3 replay officials in separate places. Show replays for 45 seconds. Immediately have them vote to confirm or overturn and then tell the referee the correct call. If the call can’t be judged in 45 seconds, the ruling stands.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

NO. Especially with the insanity of people in today's society. In addition to a logistics mess for implementing this, you'd be inviting inter-fans riots and maybe worse. Just look at what dimwits are doing at malls, middle and high school football games, in churches, and evening weddings. Stay away from invitations to insanity.

 

[TJVol95]

No it should be two geeks who have no dog in the fight who know the rules like the back of their hand.

 

[NorCalVol67]

So turn football into The Voice?

 

[rickyyrs]

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.

lol So if you think a call goes against your team, you going to vote in favor of your team. Right.

 

[hmhawk]

Lord have mercy on us, please. It ain't even the off season yet.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Awwwww, man....another genius proposal shot to Hades....can I go back and retroactively color the text blue and pretend I wasn't serious?

Seriously, though, I wish they would just can replay altogether. The call in the Vandy game a few years back where you couldn't even see the ball under the mass of humanity in the replay is the one that really did me in. The refs just basically made something up on the spot. Also, sick of hearing about "indisputable evidence." They ignore that rule (or fail to apply it) with gusto.

 

[GAVol]

Awwwww, man....another genius proposal shot to Hades....can I go back and retroactively color the text blue and pretend I wasn't serious?

I can’t blame you. A lot of times I wonder if they’re looking at the same thing I am. They need to either get system fixed or just limit it to scoring/boundary plays and a couple of coaches challenges a game.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Soooooooo, the home team gets all the calls their way while the away team gets screwed?

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??

 

[Smokey X]

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.

or....take away instant replay altogether and let it go back to the way it was prior to replay and the call on the field is just a part of the game, right or wrong...get rid of the momentum killing BS reviews....length of game gets more reasonable as a side benefit
after the game the front office reviews all potentially questionable calls(as submitted by the coaches), and grades each official and team of officials....enough bad grades gets them replaced

 

[ClockworkOrange]

or....take away instant replay altogether and let it go back to the way it was prior to replay and the call on the field is just a part of the game, right or wrong...get rid of the momentum killing BS reviews....length of game gets more reasonable as a side benefit
after the game the front office reviews all potentially questionable calls(as submitted by the coaches), and grades each official and team of officials....enough bad grades gets them replaced

Ding ding!! Just might have a winnah here.

 

[rikberry31]

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??

Actually I prefer the drunks at the stadium voting than the ones in Birmingham

 

[Zues1]

I have an idea. Eliminate them and the slow mo play backs.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

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....

 

[Iam4utalways]

or....take away instant replay altogether and let it go back to the way it was prior to replay and the call on the field is just a part of the game, right or wrong...get rid of the momentum killing BS reviews....length of game gets more reasonable as a side benefit
after the game the front office reviews all potentially questionable calls(as submitted by the coaches), and grades each official and team of officials....enough bad grades gets them replaced

The refs should get graded with ties to them having a job. When in doubt, refs should let a play keep going

The use of technology to get calls right is a good idea in my book.

When it takes awhile for them to confirm or deny a play it does interfere with the flow of the game, but is welcomed by the team it benefits.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Lol... read our football forum For 5 minutes and you know how well this idea would work.

Take the ref on the field out of the equation. Stick 3 replay officials in separate places. Show replays for 45 seconds. Immediately have them vote to confirm or overturn and then tell the referee the correct call. If the call can’t be judged in 45 seconds, the ruling stands.

I like this idea of a time limit -- I've often said that they should be able to determine whether to overturn or not in less than a minute -- that if it takes longer, it should be considered inconclusive and the call automatically upheld. Makes too much sense for them to ever try it, probably.

 

[Rickyvol77]

or....take away instant replay altogether and let it go back to the way it was prior to replay and the call on the field is just a part of the game, right or wrong...get rid of the momentum killing BS reviews....length of game gets more reasonable as a side benefit
after the game the front office reviews all potentially questionable calls(as submitted by the coaches), and grades each official and team of officials....enough bad grades gets them replaced

No. I can think of at least ten games off the top of my head we lost because there was no instant replay. Refs may blow it still but I’d rather them have to view the play and have the balls to call it then

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

The worst review I can remember is the one against Ky. They fumble, we recover and hand the ball over to the ref. Replay said they fumbled and recovered. They went on to score and win. Worst review I can remember.

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.

 

[livefaith]

I bet the Texas El-Paso fans would love this idea when playing USC, or Troy v Alabama, or EMU v tOSU or.... Let the fans vote ... what could possibly go wrong. ;-)