Instant Replay Next Year?

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:44 am

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1987994

Germainfitch1 · Post by **Germainfitch1** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:13 am

I have heard about this before and find it quite humorous. What are they going to do for the many games that are not televised? Will the referee run up to the one guy taping the game and ask him to rewind it really quick?

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:58 am

I can hear Chryst now: "Ok, you want us to do replay for every game? Pay for the cameras and crew." Who knows, maybe this means that the MAC will seek a TV deal?

Lord_Byron · Post by **Lord_Byron** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:25 am

From what I understand, the Sun-Belt Conference is looking in to getting one of those courtroom sketch guys to work their games.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:53 am

It seems pretty obvious that if replay is expanded, untelevised games would not be subject to the rule. I don't think any league gets *every* game on television... not even the Big Ten.

MI Falcon · Post by **MI Falcon** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:21 am

Doesn't matter if the Big Ten has every game televised or not. EVERY GAME has instant replay. Rules have to be consistent for all of the games. I guarantee that we tape all of our games and could do instant replay that way.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:47 am

Well, I'd be careful about "guaranteeing" something like that. Do you have an idea what goes into making instant replay work? We might have one camera--up high--taping the game, but how many angles do you often look at to review a play in a televised game. Furthermore, those great shots of exactly the right think don't happen by accident. They come from quality, professional camera operators at good angles, with good tape ops and multiple tape machines. You can say you have instant replay wherever you want, but I don't believe that college football is willing to bear the cost of this at all I-A games.

goBG · Post by **goBG** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:09 pm

some angle in the replay is better than no angle at all. so what if we dont get every angle tv gives at televised game. If we use replay and cant tell then the ruling would be no conclusive evidence and the ruling on the field would stand. and if the angle is good enough then the replay did its job. plus it brings some closure to questionable calls. go replay! no matter what angle. at least the refs will be able to get a second look at the play in question.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:33 pm

goBG wrote:some angle in the replay is better than no angle at all. so what if we dont get every angle tv gives at televised game. If we use replay and cant tell then the ruling would be no conclusive evidence and the ruling on the field would stand. and if the angle is good enough then the replay did its job. plus it brings some closure to questionable calls. go replay! no matter what angle. at least the refs will be able to get a second look at the play in question.

But what's being said is that "any angle" is sometimes so worthless that it wouldn't be worth the time, effort or money to even try to check it out. If a game isn't televised, likely the only angles you'll see are those shot by local news guys, who may or may not have even shot that play, or don't have nearly the angle you need, and the coaching tapes, which are shot from up high, and get the whole offense and defense into the shot as much as possible.

Remember how wide the Purdue highlights were? If we're lucky, the coaches tapes would be shot that tight.

So what you end up having is A) running around trying to find out who shot what and if you can get the tape loaded for a moment. B) Everyone shooting on a different format of tape. C) The equipment involved to get a decent look would be ridiculous, or else you could have a referee looking through a camera's viewfinder at a 2" B&W screen, HOPING to have some kind of better angle on a play. D) A whole lot of other stuff that would just make replay in non-televised games either useless or a ridiculous chore just to hope you got it right.

I don't see it happening.

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:13 pm

I am all for instant replay if they do it the way the Big ten did it last season. It is so stupid that in the NFL that you can be sitting there and watching and be like "that was a bad call" but the only way it gets reversed is if the coach takes a gamble. It makes no sense to have instant replay and only reverse bad calls when they are challenged. If it's a bad call, then reverse it.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:42 am

MI Falcon wrote:Doesn't matter if the Big Ten has every game televised or not. EVERY GAME has instant replay. Rules have to be consistent for all of the games. I guarantee that we tape all of our games and could do instant replay that way.

Your logic is why I think instant replay is a bit silly for college football. We will never see the day when every game is televisied.

That said, I don't see any way that the NCAA is going to force schools to tape games for instant replay. I have to assume the rule would not be in effect if a television network with replay capability isn't airing a game.

Also: I thought I had seen where the NCAA is simply allowing conferences to choose whether to allow instant replay.

I'm not sure whether it makes sense for us. On the one hand, our officials aren't always strong, and we've all seen some *major* bone head calls on national television (a certain uncalled fumble in DeKalb, Ill. comes to mind).

On the other hand, so few of our games are on television, I wonder if it would be tough for the referees to figure out how to handle.

goBG · Post by **goBG** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:17 am

good point TG but I am not sure on this but dont typically have instant replay on the video board of big plays during all the games? Maybe they were just the televised games but I swear they had replays up every game. Those replays on the video board seemed like pretty good angles so someone must have a camera linked to the board. But like I said I wasnt sure if these were televised games or not. But I have a another idea. If TV crews can link multiple cameras to the video board I think some VCT students should go out there and shoot. That way we would not thave to pay them and they could possibly get class credit. Just an idea. maybe someone can improve that idea.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:23 am

Poor judgement and missed calls are part of what I call the Human Element of the game.

Omare misses check downs, Steve Sanders will drop a ball, and a back judge will call a ball a catch when it was clearly trapped- "clearly"- when you watch it in slow motion from 3 different angles.

If the cows can't eat it, we shouldn't be playing with instant replay.

Yeah.