September 23, 2004

Instant Replay On the Horizon?

How quickly things can change.

In July, most SEC coaches showed "no interest' in instant replay becoming part of the game. Now, just three weeks into the 2004 season, that feeling may be changing--especially in light of the controversial finishes in two high-profile SEC games.

In today's edition of The Nashville City Paper, Mississippi State head football coach, Sylvester Croom said the following:

“With so much riding on these games, there is [room for] a mechanism, and I think the NFL [mechanism] is probably as good as it possibly can get … to give teams a fair opportunity to appeal decisions,” said Croom, an assistant with the Green Bay Packers for the previous three seasons.

Posted by Michael Hickerson

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1. schmed says:

   posted on September 23, 2004 01:53 PM — link

   Fat lotta good it woulda done for LSU because no replay review system I ever saw allowed the Zebes to overtune a penalty.

2. Kevin Donahue says:

   posted on September 23, 2004 04:56 PM — link

   I think replay will be the norm in the next few years. The Big 10 has shown that instant replay can be somewhat effective in college football. It's a different circumstance than fans expect, though, because you have fewer tv cameras to capture the action.

3. John Ludwig says:

   posted on September 23, 2004 05:23 PM — link

   I don't know that the Big-10 experiement has proven that instant replay is somewhat effective -- but it has certainly shown that it is not a disaster, it has introduced no significant delays and has not engendered any additional controversy.

4. Ben Prather says:

   posted on September 23, 2004 11:53 PM — link

   Replay will probably expand through the BCS conferences, and possible some of the stronger non-BCS conferences. The Sun Belt just doesn't get the week in and week out TV coverage needed to have views of the field.

   One thought... I have always assumed that replay used the TV feeds, and learned that official game films are produced for, again assuming, all games. If replay is to become a part of college football, a system that uses the official game films instead of TV feeds will be needed.