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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/f ... index.html

Coaches would be allowed to challenge close calls and officials in the press box could stop games to review plays with instant replay under new NCAA rules that all Division I-A football teams and conferences would use next season.

An NCAA panel decided Thursday that a uniform video review system should be implemented in college football.

Say goodbye to the Big 10 Shuffle!

What I never understood is if the officials were unsure of a call, or it was obviously a questionable call, why don't they hold up marking the ball ready for play?

I like the ability to challenge. Saves having to waste timeouts.

I like the concept of challenging the call. Good move.

I don't like it because it is too much like the NFL. CFB is not the NFL and shouldn't be treated or ruled like them. Giving coaches the opportunity to challenge is just going to slow down the game like it has in the NFL. And then we are bound to get some belichickesque coach who just doesn't like what happened in the last play and challenges even though he is not allowed to challenge.

I think there should be some improvment in the replay system (as in refs call the game as they normally would instead of relying on replay and have the booth officials get on the ball--when the entire TV audience can review a play before the next snap and see there is a reviewable play, I don't know why they can't) but I don't think this is the answer.

And as that article states, the MWC only overturned 5 of 35 calls. Thus, you have coaches stopping play 30 times for no reason. Think about when that gets to the real football conferences and guys like Fulmer who will be challenging 1 play per quarter.

Cicero wrote:I like the ability to challenge. Saves having to waste timeouts.

I hated that part of replay. The coach's challenge system works fairly well in the NFL. Good move by college football...something I don't say very often. :wink:

Sky,

I'm fumbling for the red flag as I type

Good to hear. Too bad Bill Snyder didn't have this option. Stupid A-hole challenged every point or big play Nebraska had in the past year's KSU/NU game and they let him, even if the play was obviously correct!

Also, now that it's clear, officials will know when the correct time to review calls would be so we don't have a situation where Michigan had to call timeouts in the Alamo bowl, one they got overturned and one they missed on.

There's going to have to be some sort of a mechanism to limit the number of challenges a coach can make though.

At first glance, this looks good, but could render a game virtually unwatchable. Not sure I wanna see Lloyd getting in a ref's face after every other play only to make the game 5 hrs. long.

PSUFAN wrote:Sky,

I'm fumbling for the red flag as I type

Dude, what are you bitching about? You won the game anyway and finished as high as you could have.

This is not that big of a change.

Think Big 11 model of replay as it has been the past two years. Nothing in place will change. Then throw on top of that the coach being able to initiate one challenge himself. The coach will call the timeout, then request a challenge. If the call is overturned, the timeout is charged to the officials and he can challenge again. If the play isn't overturned then he eats the time out and can't challenge again for the game.

More importantly lets make sure everyone understands what is going on in the replay booth. Just because the replay official doesn't stop the game doesn't mean he isn't reviewing the play before the next snap. The replay official only stops the game if he can't be certain of a call before the next snap. There is usually about 40 seconds between the end of one play and the start of the next. During that time the replay official can review a play, make a determination, and then shut down the game (or let the next play go).

Hundreds more plays are reviewed without stopping the game, which is how it should be. Stop the game only when necessary. This change if approved allows each college coach one unsuccessful challenge per game.

Sky wrote:

PSUFAN wrote:Sky,

I'm fumbling for the red flag as I type

Dude, what are you bitching about? You won the game anyway and finished as high as you could have.

I'm not bitching. I'm pointing that out as a call that needs to be reviewed. BTW, that was from the '03 game.

Lefty, to me there are two really meaningful aspects:


-refs should be able to stop teams from running up to the line and getting a play off - thereby avoiding a review. That's bullshit.
-teams being able to initiate review(s) should eliminate the crap where coaches have to call TOs to get a review. That also has to change.

PSUFAN wrote:

Sky wrote:

PSUFAN wrote:Sky,

I'm fumbling for the red flag as I type

Dude, what are you bitching about? You won the game anyway and finished as high as you could have.

I'm not bitching. I'm pointing that out as a call that needs to be reviewed. BTW, that was from the '03 game.

Gotcha, forgot/didn't remember that from this year. I just don't want this all to turn into NFL Jr.