They’re talking about letting replay officials work games virtually this season due to the coronavirus, which makes sense, given that replay officials are largely older, retired former on-field referees. That’s not really what I want to highlight in this post.
This quote from Steve Shaw, on the other hand…
“Today, the model is you work on the field until you’re kind of at the part where you’re ‘used up,’ so to speak,” Shaw said. “Then you transition to replay.
That explains so much.
Get The Picture 
It doesn’t really matter if the replay officials are in the booth or in a remote center. They are just looking at a screen and need a method to buzz down to the field.
On the topic at hand, only the best should be allowed to move to replay when their on-field days are past them. How Al Ford got another game much less a replay spot after the 1999 Fech game is still beyond me.
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It is called “cronyism. “
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I only hope never to that Penn Wagers is a replay official in a game involving UGA.
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My bad, i thought the “used up part” was that the official has used up all the bad calls that the replay booth could stand and then they transition…..
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I think Agent Smith put is best in the Matrix when he said, “Penn Wagers is the most dangerous man alive.”
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“Use Me” is also on Mick Jagger’s Wandering Spirit album (with an assist from Lenny Kravitz).
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Saying the quiet part out loud…
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Shaw, perhaps the best living example of the Peter Principle; now doubly, publicly proven beyond reasonable doubt.
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