(01-02-2020 02:06 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  The thing I like about JR's idea of feeding the replay to the officials on the field: it allows them to fix their own mistakes (and you can remove the "enough evidence to overturn" thing - just let them make their best call after seeing the replay and be done with it).

It's more difficult to persuade a person to admit and then correct his or her own mistake than it is for someone else to make the correction. The inevitable result of feeding replay to the officials on the field would be that reversals would be extremely rare, even when the call on the field was obviously wrong.

(01-02-2020 02:06 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  I've always preferred "coach challenge" over automatic review as well - keeps the number of replays down to just the important ones (in the minds of the coaches), and even introduces another layer of strategy (should he challenge now or save it?)

Coaches hate that. They don't want to add something else to the game on which they will be second-guessed. "Coach Jones should have challenged that terrible call with 4 minutes remaining in the game, but he couldn't because he foolishly used his last replay challenge in the 3rd quarter."

(01-02-2020 02:55 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(01-02-2020 02:06 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  The thing I like about JR's idea of feeding the replay to the officials on the field: it allows them to fix their own mistakes (and you can remove the "enough evidence to overturn" thing - just let them make their best call after seeing the replay and be done with it).

It's more difficult to persuade a person to admit and then correct his or her own mistake than it is for someone else to make the correction. The inevitable result of feeding replay to the officials on the field would be that reversals would be extremely rare, even when the call on the field was obviously wrong.

(01-02-2020 02:06 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  I've always preferred "coach challenge" over automatic review as well - keeps the number of replays down to just the important ones (in the minds of the coaches), and even introduces another layer of strategy (should he challenge now or save it?)

Coaches hate that. They don't want to add something else to the game on which they will be second-guessed. "Coach Jones should have challenged that terrible call with 4 minutes remaining in the game, but he couldn't because he foolishly used his last replay challenge in the 3rd quarter."

If fans love it and coaches hate, that's PROOF it's good for the game!