On Further Review of the UGA game

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If the ball was tipped, could our coaching staff have challenged it? (It wasn't pass interference anyway.)

If our QB was (obviously) speared to the head by the UGA goon (done it before), then could our coaching staff have challenged it? Can they challenge it now as far as after game reviews to determine availability of a player?

Our QB was clearly concussed, dropped the football, got up woozy. How does he come back into play the game? Did this have something to do with pretty high and inaccurate passes in OT? Could our coaches have done something about this?


Regarding referees, Tech has terrible issues hurt us in this game and it happens pretty often. For the amount of money involved, for the sanity of college football (read the internet, there is a lot of frustration out there on this), for the fairness of the game, why do we allow SEC refs to handle our games? Tech should step forward and offer contractually to use NCAA refs next year, not ACC (who suck in a different way), not SEC. The SEC is a protected conference by ESPN/ABC and the refs do this too frequently. Take the power out of their hands and push for National Refs.

We should have Div 1 NCAA refs just like the pros have their own refs.
 
BuzzCzar said:
NFL refs all have other jobs too, just like college
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Very true although there is frequently a push to make them full time employees of the league. I do think they will happen eventually. Basically there would meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to review weekend calls, work on consistency, have peer review, etc. Probably further away for college although with the amount of money in the game now, I could see some national panel, etc.
 
legallybuzzed said:
Very true although there is frequently a push to make them full time employees of the league. I do think they will happen eventually. Basically there would meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to review weekend calls, work on consistency, have peer review, etc. Probably further away for college although with the amount of money in the game now, I could see some national panel, etc.
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The NFL did make a number of them full time for a while and it didn't improve anything and no one was happy with the situation so they shut it down.

I think there are two main issues:

1. You mention meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, but what do they do during the off-season? They mostly just sit around? There's only so much film and rule studying you can do. Which leads to...

2. The biggest challenge is making calls at real game speed in live situations, and that's not something you can really practice, so making officials full time won't help with that.

I think the biggest advancement in officiating quality will come when they figure out how to incorporate a video official to help make calls immediately. The NFL has started to do that a bit with "expedited reviews" but I think they can go even further.
 
I wasn't aware of that. Regardless, you do make some good points. Always going to be hard to imitate game speed. I suppose you could attend some practices, mini-camps, spring college ball [which college officials do] but even that is in a bubble.

It isn't like there are tiers of football (like soccer). You have a couple of rough matches in EPL then you are referring in the league below a couple of weeks later).

Perhaps we will see some expedited reviews in college soon as well, at least in the Power 4 since everything is on TV now. Certainly seems they could do some things quicker than waiting 38 seconds and then having a review call 2 seconds before the next snap.

Anyway, F the Head Linesman last night. What a clown.
 
The game does make me wonder though if there are penalty analytics available tied to certain crews or certain refs. I’m sure the data is collected, but it’s likely not publicized. Would be interesting to see, for example, if certain crews have a penchant for ignoring holds. And of course, if someone had access to that data they might adjust the level of dirty bullsnot they try to get away with.

It works in baseball. Certain umps being exploited based on the generosity of their strike zone. What about the NFL or FBS/FCS?
 
The results of the game should be vacated. Getting the DPI wrong and missing the obvious hold are bad. I would, rightfully, be complaining about those bonehead calls today, but that would be the extent of it. Regular bitching about excessively bad calls

Swallowing their whistles on the blatant targeting after reviewing the play is inexcusable. That no-call convinced me that the officials got a call from Sankey at halftime, explaining the conditions of their future employment. I've completely lost any semblance of trust in the game itself. Might as well be WWE at this point.
 
BuzzCzar said:
NFL refs all have other jobs too, just like college
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They also all are employed and get paid by the same entity. Therefore they have no real persuasion one way or the other, unless it comes from the very top. This needs to happen yesterday in college. What is the point of conference refs anyway? Make one NCAA referee "league" and divide them by region.
 
Look - I'm tired of talking about the refs (it was B$) but forget that and I'm not bringing it up anymore. We may not have won the game on the scoreboard but we sure as heck won it on the field. I'm dropping the mike and moving on and will not take any crap from some nadlicker.
 
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