FishDuck Article Administrator No. 1 Share Posted October 10 Conferences are in charge of hiring, training, and assigning their referees to games. This is a dated approach that hasn’t changed in college football. It creates inconsistency among the conferences’ referees and leads to often inconsistent calls and drastically different ways of interpreting the same rules. Mr. FishDuck took some time away from his fun at stay casino 20 free ... It’s Time for a Centralized Authority on Officiating | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM Conferences are in charge of hiring, training, and assigning their referees to games. This is a dated approach that hasn’t changed in college football. 2 3 2 Two Sites: FishDuck and the Our Beloved Ducks forum, The only "Forum with Decorum!" And All-Volunteer? What a wonderful community of Duck fans! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haywarduck No. 2 Share Posted October 10 One would think there would be a way to have sensors on the ball to locate where it ended up as the whistle blows. This also seems like technology that will come about. Seeing the random placement of the ball is often frustrating, and would seem to be ripe for making it technologically driven rather than prone to human error. Great idea to bring officiating forward, rather than seemingly backwards at times and few attempts to really bring it forward. What else would be a great move to bring officiating along, rather than negatively impacting the game we all love. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Moderator No. 3 Share Posted October 10 On 10/10/2024 at 5:52 AM, Haywarduck said: Great idea to bring officiating forward, rather than seemingly backwards at times and few attempts to really bring it forward. What else would be a great move to bring officiating along, rather than negatively impacting the game we all love. Great idea about the ball having a sensor, a less technology based change that would help is to have a 1 minute limit on reviews. If irrefutable evidence can't be found by then, the call stands. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kamikaze Kid Moderator No. 4 Share Posted October 10 Bravo David great topic and article I have a couple thoughts on rules and refs. First I think targeting to should be a penalty with multiple levels. Sometimes by the letter of the law a player may commit accidental targeting do to how the offensive player positions himself before impact. I think to eject a player from the game and suspend them into the next game should have some sort of intent to harm associated with it. It seems to me that the term targeting by definition should require malicious intent. Replay should have video specialist assisting the refs in finding out key information ASAP. How long would it take for a trained professional to find the best camera angles to focus on if viewing them all together on one monitor? Seems like thirty seconds should be enough to figure that out. After that freezing and zooming in should be done in another thirty seconds max. After that, syncing multiple angles to find answers to more complex plays may take up to a minute more. That would be two minutes max to find information that would overturn a call. This could be done either at the game or remotely from a central location. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonDucks No. 5 Share Posted October 10 (edited) I agree that all college referees should be hired, trained, evaluated and paid for by the NCAA (and not individual conferences). There are too many examples of favoritism to protect the top teams/programs in college football. Edited October 10 by OregonDucks 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckFan93 No. 6 Share Posted October 10 Makes sense, just like having one big league for the power-4 and another for G5, etc, with divisions. Basically NFL model is the way to go, now that athletes are paid like pros already... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Marsh No. 7 Share Posted October 10 I agree there should be levels of targeting. The top most being flagrant targeting that also has a level of intent. This would be the hardest to prove but it would carry the most severe penalty. I do believe that anyone officiating should be able to flag targeting. Though what we are seeing more and more is that not everyone has their own definitions. So to standardize it there should be a team of replay officials in an office somewhere that gets forwarded the plays for targeting so they can review them. This could slow the game down a bit. I'm sure but less from a tech stand point. Most replay officials are already remote. But if there is a que for targeting reviews... Which would just mean they'd have to hire more people. But that would also mean that targeting was consistent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Marsh No. 8 Share Posted October 10 On 10/10/2024 at 9:09 AM, OregonDucks said: I agree that all college referees should be hired, trained, evaluated and paid for by the NCAA (and not individual conferences). There are too many examples of favoritism to protect the top teams/programs in college football. I thought about going into pay but it felt tacted on. But refs should absolutely be paid as professionals. Many do this as a second job or have a second job at least. They should really be paid and trained and make this a full time job that pays enough for it to be their job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Marsh No. 9 Share Posted October 10 On 10/10/2024 at 7:46 AM, The Kamikaze Kid said: Seems like thirty seconds should be enough to figure that out. After that freezing and zooming in should be done in another thirty seconds max. After that, syncing multiple angles to find answers to more complex plays may take up to a minute more. That would be two minutes max to find information that would overturn a call. This could be done either at the game or remotely from a central location. I know it's TV analysis but I feel they do a very good job getting all the angles and slow mo to the fans in no time at all. And the standard is so high to overturn something I'd think they could have the answer if it can even be reviewed in seconds. I mean the Minnesota game winning TD against USC was effectively non-reviewable and the previous play before it. It's a mass of bodies and you can barely see the QB let alone the ball. I feel the refs should just be honest and say. "The play cannot be reviewed as there is no video evidence that can determine ball placement" bam! Moving on. I know it was mentioned earlier about getting a sensor in the ball... The reality is that it'd probably just need a chip and it'd probably be easiest to have a system set up at the goal line. You'd basically need something to create a virtual barrier that can detect the ball breaking the plane. Anywhere else on the field would probably be too difficult for the NCAA to pioneer so we'd probably see this whole system developed and executed at the NFL level first. In truth I don't mind as much about refs placing the ball and making most of those calls. But it would be nice for plays like that Minnesota one if the ball broke the plane. But would refs want visual evidence as well? Probably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittDuck No. 10 Share Posted October 11 I like it! Pay the refs and hold them accountable through a transparent system of performance reviews. Full-time Professional Referees who have to get critiques and training every week Oh, but where would they come up with the money to do that, you ask?? How about .0001% of the salary of each and every member of the coaching staff of every team? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
