Officiating: Should the NCAA Allow Immediate Overrules?

by **Ace Dad** » February 26th, 2013, 5:18 pm

Several posters have commented this year that an official's call or non-call directly influenced the outcome of a MVC game.

The KU Jayhawks probably won a game on the road last night because the officials screwed up:

http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/th ... owa-state/

I am old school and believe that we ought to leave the current system alone and if an official makes a mistake that impacts a game's outcome, let the conference and the supervising officials deal with it.

Are we at the point with replays that anyone believes that a supervising official at the table, or in the booth, or at NCAA headquarters should have the authority to overrule official miscues made in the last 60 seconds if the opposing coach calls for a review. For example, last night, if the ISU coach challenged the call, an official outside the officiating 3 man crew makes the call before the game goes on. If the challenge is not upheld, the coach who made the challenge loses 3 timeouts in his next game.

Again, I am not for changing anything, but officiating seems to be getting more attention nowadays.

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by **WhiskeySierraUniform** » February 26th, 2013, 5:20 pm

I think the right call should be made everytime. If that means they have to go to review to get the call right, so be it.

by **KingTut** » February 26th, 2013, 7:40 pm

Leave it as is.

It's bad enough that every single freaking time the clock stops in the last minute they have to look at the monitor and adjust the clock by 2 tenths. Never mind the fact that seconds are gained or lost by imprecise clock operation all game long.

At some point you have to draw a line and say "no more reviews." Errors are made. Live with them. If we're gonna continue down the road of everything being reviewable and correctable then games will take an extra hour.

by **pafan** » February 26th, 2013, 7:46 pm

I'm apparently even older school than Ace Dad. I think replay should be removed.

Games already move extremely slowly in the final minute or two. Take the CU/St. Mary's Braketbuster game, where the final minute took about 9 minutes of real time (without any replays, but plenty of timeouts and free throws)

Or, take the SIU-SIUE game from November, where the refs caused a 21 minute delay looking at the replay of a bench-clearing event over and over, and eventually ejecting 7 players (and effectively deciding the game by ejecting more than half of the SIUE team)

Or, just about any other situation where replay is currently allowed. How long should it take to determine if a shot was a two or a three? Surely not two or three minutes? But, if it takes two minutes to determine if the player was behind the line, it might take five to figure out a more complicated call, like whether a whistle was blown for a block or a charge.

by **agrinut** » February 27th, 2013, 9:07 am

I think they will add the review, if for no other reason than money. It is another timeout they can sell, simple as that.

by **unipanther99** » February 27th, 2013, 9:37 am

What if the wrong call is made with 1:01 to go, fouling out a team's best player? I think such a rule in the last 60 seconds is too much of an arbitrary time frame. If it corrections cannot be made throughout the game, they should not be made at all.

by **DUBulldog** » February 27th, 2013, 10:16 am

Allow each coach a limited number of challenges, like in the NFL. If the challenge is lost, you lose a time-out.

But, there are a lot of college games with no video feed.....nothing you could do there.

by **BCPanther** » February 27th, 2013, 10:37 am

Leave it more or less as it is.

A couple of changes-

1) Make shot clock violation reviewable

2) Put a time limit on reviews. Officials have 90 seconds. If the call isn't obvious in 90 seconds, you are reaching.

Unrelated to reviews but...

I am sick of coaches being allowed to be all over the floor and making huge gestures to show up officials (Jake does it too, so its not an everybody else thing). Its easily correctable and takes the 'gray area' out of it.

1) Two feet outside of the coaches box is an automatic technical. Doesn't matter if you are talking to the ref or coaching your team. Two feet out is two feet out.

2) Any gesturing after a close call in the direction of the official, any throwing of objects, or kicking a chair or scorer's table is an automatic technical.

If we clean up the coaching and referee interactions our game will be better for it.