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"Conference officials approved a measure to introduce instant replay at a limited number of conference games beginning this season, SeawolvesNation has learned. It is expected to gain final approval in the coming weeks.

During the CAA summer meetings last weekend, athletics directors and league officials agreed to begin contracting with DV Sport, the leading provider of instant replay in Division I college football. The initial rollout will focus on a select number of televised games, and conference officials have said that they will make an effort to provide as many schools as possible with the opportunity to host DV Sport personnel throughout the season.

DV Sport will also conduct audits of each member program throughout the season to determine whether or not they have the resources needed in order to introduce instant replay full time beginning as early as the 2015 season.

The recommendations made by the athletics directors of the CAA will now move to the Council of Presidents — comprised of the university presidents of each member program — for final approval, according to Associate Commissioner of CAA Football Scott Meyer. It is expected the Council of Presidents will approve the measure.

CAA officials have yet to finalize the conference’s television schedule for the 2014 season, and the introduction of instant replay could sway the decision-making process. According to Meyer, part of the goal of this year’s rollout will be to assess the readiness of each CAA program to implement a replay system full-time next year.

“Part of the goal is to get an understanding of the infrastructure at each school for this season,” Meyer said. “So that in the future, TV will not be relied upon for instant replay.”

The CAA would join a growing number of FCS-level conferences that have adopted the same instant replay system that FBS programs have been using for years. Last month, the Southland Conference became the first FCS league to approve full use of instant replay, while a handful of other conferences have begun testing the system in televised games.

“The system will utilize the same college football replay rules as the FBS level,” said Meyer. “It would be the same as if we were in the ACC or the SEC or the Big 12.”

An NCAA-approved instant replay official will be on hand at each game featuring the new system to work with the referees in administering the right call. As is the case at the FBS level, coaches will have the opportunity to challenge any reviewable call so long as they have at least one timeout remaining. If the challenge is successful, the team keeps its timeout and may challenge once more during the game. If the call is upheld, the team loses its timeout and remains unable to challenge again.

For the Seawolves, instant replay has been used before in at least two home contests: Stony Brook’s first-round FCS playoff games in 2011 and 2012."
http://www.imaseawolf.com/caa-instant-replay/

BOOOOM! The announcement we've all been waiting for! Finally, way to go guys, we did it.

Hopefully CAA refs will be a little less terrible now.

(06-06-2014 10:03 PM)5000DOLLARBILL Wrote: [ -> ]BOOOOM! The announcement we've all been waiting for! Finally, way to go guys, we did it.

Lol. This

(06-06-2014 10:59 PM)Potomac Wrote: [ -> ]Hopefully CAA refs will be a little less terrible now.

I doubt it, they are simply atrocious partiularly on;
- Pass interference
- Personal Fouls

CAA refs. this always cracks me up. there are no CAA refs. there are just refs that are contracted by the leagues to work games. the CAA draws from the same pool of refs as the ACC. These guys just work games, not leagues. Granted, the ACC is going to pay more and get the top guys for the top games, but the caa uses most of the same guys the acc does.

(06-06-2014 10:03 PM)5000DOLLARBILL Wrote: [ -> ]BOOOOM! The announcement we've all been waiting for! Finally, way to go guys, we did it.

Evidence that people here are so salty about our conference situation that they can't even read an informative thread without talking trash. Thanks for the update BDK I found this interesting.

(06-09-2014 09:27 AM)PGJMU Wrote: [ -> ]CAA refs. this always cracks me up. there are no CAA refs. there are just refs that are contracted by the leagues to work games. the CAA draws from the same pool of refs as the ACC. These guys just work games, not leagues. Granted, the ACC is going to pay more and get the top guys for the top games, but the caa uses most of the same guys the acc does.

Same is true with basketball refs. I get amused at the comments about a particular "CAA ref" and how horrible he was and then see the same guy doing an ACC game the next night. Yes, there are a few bottom feeders that get assigned CAA games, but more often than not these guys are doing games for a bunch of conferences including the ACC, CAA, etc.

(06-09-2014 09:45 AM)Oldduke Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-09-2014 09:27 AM)PGJMU Wrote: [ -> ]CAA refs. this always cracks me up. there are no CAA refs. there are just refs that are contracted by the leagues to work games. the CAA draws from the same pool of refs as the ACC. These guys just work games, not leagues. Granted, the ACC is going to pay more and get the top guys for the top games, but the caa uses most of the same guys the acc does.

Same is true with basketball refs. I get amused at the comments about a particular "CAA ref" and how horrible he was and then see the same guy doing an ACC game the next night. Yes, there are a few bottom feeders that get assigned CAA games, but more often than not these guys are doing games for a bunch of conferences including the ACC, CAA, etc.

yea, the real criticism that should be aimed at the refs is that they work too many games.

there was an article about that on ESPN or some new outlet in the past few years that many conferences are concerned about this.

a guy does a Big East game Monday, ACC Tue, SEC Wed, CAA Thu, takes Fri off then does two more over the weekend.

many feel that is too much and the quality is going down because these guys schedules are too hectic and they are tired. But, what can you do? They are all independent contractors and want to cash in as much as they can. Can't really blame them for trying to make a living.

(06-09-2014 09:58 AM)Duke Dawg Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-09-2014 09:45 AM)Oldduke Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-09-2014 09:27 AM)PGJMU Wrote: [ -> ]CAA refs. this always cracks me up. there are no CAA refs. there are just refs that are contracted by the leagues to work games. the CAA draws from the same pool of refs as the ACC. These guys just work games, not leagues. Granted, the ACC is going to pay more and get the top guys for the top games, but the caa uses most of the same guys the acc does.

Same is true with basketball refs. I get amused at the comments about a particular "CAA ref" and how horrible he was and then see the same guy doing an ACC game the next night. Yes, there are a few bottom feeders that get assigned CAA games, but more often than not these guys are doing games for a bunch of conferences including the ACC, CAA, etc.

yea, the real criticism that should be aimed at the refs is that they work too many games.

there was an article about that on ESPN or some new outlet in the past few years that many conferences are concerned about this.

a guy does a Big East game Monday, ACC Tue, SEC Wed, CAA Thu, takes Fri off then does two more over the weekend.

many feel that is too much and the quality is going down because these guys schedules are too hectic and they are tired. But, what can you do? They are all independent contractors and want to cash in as much as they can. Can't really blame them for trying to make a living.

It could be argued that the more games one officiates the better he/she gets. I'm not sure, never been one. Only the actual people doing the job would really know.

I had no idea. I think I always hear announcers saying things like "an AAC officiating crew". Maybe I'm making that up or those tv announcers don't have a clue.


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Good thing you put the thread title in all caps to highlight how important this completely unimportant issue is. Thanks.

(06-10-2014 09:21 AM)JMU_Degenerate Wrote: [ -> ]Good thing you put the thread title in all caps to highlight how important this completely unimportant issue is. Thanks.

I think that was his point. CAA makes big things out of little ones. But, I guess they all do, to some extent anyway.

(06-10-2014 10:40 AM)BleedingPurple Wrote: [ -> ]

(06-10-2014 09:21 AM)JMU_Degenerate Wrote: [ -> ]Good thing you put the thread title in all caps to highlight how important this completely unimportant issue is. Thanks.

I think that was his point. CAA makes big things out of little ones. But, I guess they all do, to some extent anyway.

No, I didn't put the thread title in caps. The article's title in the link was already in caps, which I simply copied and pasted...
http://www.imaseawolf.com/caa-instant-replay/

Through the first 3 halfs of the world cup, the officials are mucking it up big time. Game altering calls.

Come on, it's just a few games of kickball, does it really matter, lol.

(06-09-2014 08:22 PM)GeoJMU Wrote: [ -> ]I had no idea. I think I always hear announcers saying things like "an AAC officiating crew". Maybe I'm making that up or those tv announcers don't have a clue.


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An "ACC officiating crew" and a "CAA officiating crew" are not necessarily mutually exclusive phrases. While doing a UNC-UVA game, Moe, Larry and Curly are at that moment in time an "ACC officiating crew" while that same crew doing JMU-W&M game, the next day, at that moment is a "CAA officiating crew."

Here's a little more about this topic from today's RTD.

http://m.timesdispatch.com/sports/colleg...l?mode=jqm

Its too bad this is probably only going to happen once at each school. It may be jarring going from one game that has replay to a game the next week that doesn't.

(07-15-2014 11:31 AM)bridgeforthduke Wrote: [ -> ]Here's a little more about this topic from today's RTD.

http://m.timesdispatch.com/sports/colleg...l?mode=jqm

Its too bad this is probably only going to happen once at each school. It may be jarring going from one game that has replay to a game the next week that doesn't.

This sounds ridiculous. For league games (CAA) you either have replay or you don't you don't implement a replay plan where you have it for 1-2 games per week. What a joke, this truly shows how 'small-time' the CAA is. Serioulsy if you cannot do something consistently for all league games just don't bother at all.

That would be like saying in basketball, let's dabble with a 24 second shot clock in league play but not in all CAA games, maybe like one on Tuesday night and one on Saturday night.

Some of those stadiums are simply not capable of giving a good view that can be used for replay purposes. I can see replay at those places being a non-factor or simply a waste time. I think back to our "Hail Mary" game at Villanova. There was no good replay of that one play at all and it was a televised game.