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Originally Posted by PIMking
I've been saying this on my CFB board since the UF LSU game.
Instant replay in CFB and NFL needs to be put to death. It causes the officials to make bad calls knowing the safety blanket of the instant replay is there. The officials in the UF vs LSU game were scared to call it a forward pass thus making the replay worthless with no "indisputable" evidence. Look at the Auburn VS Arkansas game two weeks ago.
Auburn RB clearly fumbled the ball before going into the end zone and every single official ruled it a FUMBLE except the official that makes the call came up and said it was ruled a TD. Then on to the replay, there isn't "indisputable" evidence that he fumbled the ball before he went into the endzone... But it did show not a single official calling for a TD but everyone one including the back judge and line judge threw the bean bag for a FUMBLE.
It's pathetic, they use the replay as a blanket to make calls. Get rid of the instant replay.
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I agree somewhat that it does take the accountability away from refs and they get a free ride but there are just too many mistakes and too many close calls impossible for refs to make. I do support using technology to help refs. It's really frustrating to watch sports like soccer and baseball where the entire world knows what happened and nobody can help the ref/ump. Do you think that if there was no replay the refs wouldn't have made these calls? They're not purposely being bad, they're just bad!
Without replay, Pittsburgh would have had a TD and Minnesota would have had a game winning touchdown when both of Harvin's feet were out of bounds.
They need to use replay still but they have to punish refs who make such obvious mistakes even with replay. If fact use replay as a tool to punish refs.