Time for replay in major FCS conferences

[LDopaPDX]

At this point, every Big Sky Conference game is televised somewhere and somehow. Referees have the ability to put a video analyst in the booth. Hell, we always play a couple of regular season games and all the playoffs with replays already... so clearly, FCS refs understand the protocol.

It's time for the major FCS conferences to install replays. There is no excuse for the bad calls against Cal Poly yesterday. The receiver who "fumbled" was lying flat on the ground, and even the ball hit the ground before coming "loose." There is no excuse for not making a correction on a call like that and it only leads to conspiracy theories, many of which are hard to disagree with when it's often the same team(s) that benefits from the calls.

For the sake of fairness and accuracy, make the change so the calls are correct.

 

[LDopaPDX]

Also, I'm the first to admit Eastern has benefitted from a whopper this year... the fumble we took from North Dakota when the receiver had stopped and fallen on his butt before losing the ball was a crap call. Fairness applies to all.

 

[EWURanger]

Also, I'm the first to admit Eastern has benefitted from a whopper this year... the fumble we took from North Dakota when the receiver had stopped and fallen on his butt before losing the ball was a crap call. Fairness applies to all.

When I watched that on TV a couple times, it looked like he was on top of another ND player and never actually touched the ground before the ball came out. But I agree, replay is long overdue in the FCS.

 

[clawman1]

If replay was to be utilized there should be adequate camera shots to make good decisions. It seems currently there are 2 view angles at most. If that is the case is it adequate to get it right?

 

[LDopaPDX]

If replay was to be utilized there should be adequate camera shots to make good decisions. It seems currently there are 2 view angles at most. If that is the case is it adequate to get it right?

You may not get a great view of everything, but you could get enough of a view to get a handle on the majority of calls. I look at a couple of glaring end-of-game calls Eastern has had in Missoula, and both would have been easily corrected by one or two views of replay.

 

[Seattle Eagle]

I agree that this would be a good thing. My guess is that cost is the reason it's not employed at the FCS level.

 

[grizfnz]

If replay was to be utilized there should be adequate camera shots to make good decisions. It seems currently there are 2 view angles at most. If that is the case is it adequate to get it right?

You may not get a great view of everything, but you could get enough of a view to get a handle on the majority of calls. I look at a couple of glaring end-of-game calls Eastern has had in Missoula, and both would have been easily corrected by one or two views of replay.

Keep your opinions to yourself please......if information like this gets out that the Big Sky Officials have been paid to make sure Montana always gets the calls in Missoula it could have disastrous consequences. They may start investigating how we manage to always have cold weather during the playoffs (part of the cloud seeding program offered at the U) or how we manage to create so much noise in the North End Zone (sorry can't let you in on that secret). I'm just glad no other team in the BSC has ever benefited from a controversial call......if it did, I'd bet we'd hear calls of conspiracy by teams with Bison mascots and such.

 

[EWURanger]

If replay was to be utilized there should be adequate camera shots to make good decisions. It seems currently there are 2 view angles at most. If that is the case is it adequate to get it right?

You may not get a great view of everything, but you could get enough of a view to get a handle on the majority of calls. I look at a couple of glaring end-of-game calls Eastern has had in Missoula, and both would have been easily corrected by one or two views of replay.

Keep your opinions to yourself please......if information like this gets out that the Big Sky Officials have been paid to make sure Montana always gets the calls in Missoula it could have disastrous consequences. They may start investigating how we manage to always have cold weather during the playoffs (part of the cloud seeding program offered at the U) or how we manage to create so much noise in the North End Zone (sorry can't let you in on that secret). I'm just glad no other team in the BSC has ever benefited from a controversial call......if it did, I'd bet we'd hear calls of conspiracy by teams with Bison mascots and such.

Apparently you've never heard of "The Great Bill Fette Conspiracy" theory. It's kinda like the Great Pumpkin, only different.

I appreciate the humor but we're talking about games with questionable calls made in which no replay existed. In the NDSU game the Bizun claim to have gotten the shaft in, there was replay (it was the playoffs), and the play was reviewed several times until they concluded that they couldn't over-turn the call made on the field. Based on the video, you just couldn't tell one way or the other.

 

[eaglesfootball]

I agree that this would be a good thing. My guess is that cost is the reason it's not employed at the FCS level.

yessir, its the $$$$

 

[Seattle Eagle]

I understand that not every 1AA conference would have the capability to to instant replay due to lack of resources, but why wouldn't the NCAA approve it on a conference by conference basis. Say, the Big Sky schools all agreed that it's something they'd like to implement. Is there some sorr of NCAA rule that says you can't? It seems almost evey game is televised in some form and that most schools have video boards.