Sure, there’s a replay booth… but what if there’s more?
A proposed rule change would allow conferences to appeal targeting fouls that were called in the second half of games in order to avoid the carryover penalty of sitting out the first half of the next game, the NCAA Football Rules Committee said Friday.
The committee, which began meeting Wednesday, also proposed a reporting and investigation process to address teams that are awarded an injury timeout when a player is believed to have faked an injury.
If the Playing Rules Oversight Panel approves the rules changes at its April 20 meeting, the new rules will begin this season.
If a team believes a targeting call was erroneous, its conference would be allowed to submit a request to Steve Shaw, the NCAA’s national coordinator of officials, for review. If it’s obvious the player was incorrectly penalized, the call would be overturned and the player would be cleared for the first half of the next game.
The good news, I guess, is at least they won’t be wasting time during a game with this. But shouldn’t there be somebody to review Shaw’s review? (I keed, I keed… I think.)
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The Supreme Court of the United States could grant cert to Steve Shaw to, you know, make sure the ruling was accurate, I guess.
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Make the in-game penalty more drastic to affect the entire team rather than just the player. As I mentioned yesterday, make the penalty 25 yards (no half the distance garbage) plus a loss of down (if on the offense) or 5 downs to get the next first down (if on the defense). If it’s on the defense inside their 25 yard line, the offense is awarded a touchdown. If it’s on the offense inside their 25 yard line, the defense is awarded a safety. A 2nd targeting penalty in a game gets that player ejected. Further targeting penalties during the year get the player suspended for the next game.
All of this will get the coaches’ and the players’ attention. Keep the in game replay with the confirmed/overturned (no call stands) because of the impact of the penalty.
This is easy to fix … just do it.
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I’m sure Steve Shaw will uphold every 2nd half targeting call against an Alabama player.
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Couple of things here, do I smell a fake injury review booth in the near future, which means new fake injury camera angles, any past history of injury faking and last but not least, an individual/individuals who knows about faking calls…cfb referees for the win, cause that group can see or not see or even make calls that haven’t been called in 100 years…Tyler Simmons was still onsides!…GO DAWGS!
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We’ll be the first team to RECEIVE a retroactive targeting call, guaran-damn-teed!
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FTMF
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OK but the play is already reviewed by video before targeting can be called to begin with. If it’s “obvious” that it’s a bad call it’s overturned on the day of. So what is going to be different when that same video his Steve Shaw’s desk? I’m thinking that what we might think of as “obvious” aren’t as obvious in referee world. Unless they’re going to have additional angles that aren’t available on gameday or something, what are we even doing here? Maybe checking Twitter for a couple days to see how the viewing public felt? Checking the rankings to see if that player’s absence is going to hurt a contender?
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