January 12, 2006
Standard replay, other changes coming
The American Football Coaches Association is wrapping it's meeting in Dallas and will present several new recommendations, including moving to one uniform standard for instant replay.
"What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set," AFCA executive director Grant Teaff said. "What'll most likely happen is that they'll put in a rule: Here's the standard. You either accept it or you don't accept it. And I think nationally they'll accept it."
Personally, I'm hopeful that the NCAA will adopt the Mountain West replay format, which includes a coach's challenge system, a la the NFL.
The AFCA is also polling the coaches on going with an NFL style play clock and tinkering with an early signing day for spring enrollments. The Coaches also gave their blessing to use the Coaches Poll for the BCS calculations for the next four years.
Comments:
posted on January 12, 2006 11:22 AM — 156.56.73.201 — link — abuse?Pete Holiday said:
I hate the NFL replay system. I'd rather not have replay at all, to be honest, than to have the challenge system.
Senor Pez said:
posted on January 12, 2006 11:57 AM — 63.162.183.2 — link — abuse?
I have to agree: I hate the NFL replay system. Getting the calls right shouldn't be a tactical game of how many replay challenges you have left and how many timeouts you have. Getting the calls right should be the JOB of the refs.
I'm not opposed to implementing the standard "Big Ten" style replay. The problem, as we saw in the Alamo Bowl this year, is when officials from a non-replay conference officiate a game in which replay is an option. They just don't have the experience or training to stop the game when a replay should occur.
I think the standardization of replay will go some distance to helping this issue. It certainly can't hurt.
posted on January 12, 2006 12:44 PM — link — abuse?
What about a hybrid system?
Replay officials can review any play but the coaches also get a challenge flag (with an established # per game - probably 1 a half) so they no longer have to waste timeouts on plays the replay officials are having trouble making their mind up on?
posted on January 12, 2006 1:13 PM — link — abuse?
Jeff - If I'm not mistaken, the Mountain West system works that way. Replay can review what they want to (Big 10 style) but the coach does get one challenge flag per half.
It's the best of both worlds because a coach shouldn't have to call a time out just because the replay official has yet to review the play.
schmed said:
posted on January 12, 2006 3:29 PM — 208.248.231.58 — link — abuse?
That'd be great if everything else stayed the same, but the NFL refs have become a little reluctant to blow the whistle when there's a close fumble/ground call. Their logic is that if the play's dead, it can be reviewed and fixed, but if they blow the whistle and it's really a fumbelle, they can't allow whatever potential runback might've occurred because the play was dead & unreviewable.
That works out ok if the coach has a challenge left, but if he doesn't (or has a challenge but no TOs), they just shrug it off and it doesn't get reviewed, and THAT's screwed up.
Elder Mars said:
posted on January 13, 2006 7:53 PM — 67.107.200.249 — link — abuse?
Hopefully they adopt the only good replay system- that of the Mountain West Conference. It would suck to punish the MWC and reverse the progress they have made because all the other conferences in the nation can't get it right the first time.Terry Webb said:
posted on January 14, 2006 6:57 PM — 24.210.221.156 — link — abuse?
My concern is not with the replay system, it is more with using the coaches poll for the BCS. We've seen over the past couple of years how coaches influence one another for polling .. a la Texas leapfrogging Cal in 2004 as well as many of the inconsistencies posted in the final coaches poll for this year.
Robert Green, Jax, Fl said:
posted on January 16, 2006 6:05 PM — 24.129.111.33 — link — abuse?
After watching the college bowl games and just recently the NFL playoffs it is becoming obvious the officials are either incompetent or are attempting to "fix" the outcome of the games.
Officials....both college and NFL need to be held accountable for their inefficiency....... many fans are starting to believe the point spread is becoming important to those calling these games.......
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rob said:
posted on January 12, 2006 10:14 AM — 65.170.177.150 — link — abuse?I don't mind replay, but I hate how some do it (at least the ACC). I think it's stupid that a coach would have to call a time out in order to "buy" time for a ref to take a look at a replay.