Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 22:17:01 GMT -5
I have often wondered with the changes in philosophies towards officiating with the use of instant replay, if officials are becoming too reliant upon the eye in the sky and missing seemingly easy calls. An example of this was the UGA/GT game. GT runs a QB sneak from the two, QB hits the line goes forward towards the goal line then the pile gets pushed back to the 5. At that point a UGA player takes the ball from the QB and runs 95 yards for a TD. So my question is what happened to forward progress? Is the philosophy in a replay game not to blow the play dead when it is obvious that forward progress has been stopped? I know that you must see the ball before killing the play, but because forward progress wasn't ruled to have been stopped, even though the pile moved 4 yards back, it gave a cheap td to the D.
There are other examples of were it seems officials are being trained to rely on replay instead of making the call when it needs to be made.
There are other examples of were it seems officials are being trained to rely on replay instead of making the call when it needs to be made.