No video replay at the FCS level = unacceptable

[SeattleGriz]

Exactly. As I previously stated, just need a filter to make sure the plays that need to be reviewed are first on the queue.

I was being sarcastic. Quality video isn't cheap....getting enough cameras isn't cheap...getting enough people who know what the fuck they are doing with their camera isn't cheap.

Any camera from Wal Mart isn't going to give a good enough video to use for a replay. The cameras that the NCAA and NFL use cost more than any school is willing to spend on 1 camera...let alone the 7-10 (minimum) required to get even decent coverage of all angles of the field. The standard F23 CineAlta style camer that does uncompressed HD rents for over THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY...FOR ONE OF THEM. The NFL and ABC/ESPN are using MUCH nicer cameras than that, with some of the best camera operators in America and you see how tough it is to make rulings with that kind of quality camera/camera work.


The standard $600 camera from Wal Mart with Joe Schmoe running it isn't going to cut it for replay. Couple that with getting the video sent real time, to a replay booth (which yep, has to actually be built for pretty much any school) isn't as cheap or easy as you want to believe. Plus there is the cost of paying for the extra officials, the extra telecommunication system, cost of training the officials on the use of the system, cost in installing the system in every venue, etc... The FBS pretty much all use the XOS HD Replay system. Do some reading on it....it's not as simple as you want to think.

Oh, and for a school that has to build a new booth, like our ODU fans have pointed out, it means having to meet a TON of new ADA rules that they have to meet....many of which won't be possible without tens of thousands of dollars in renovations to the stadium. If it was easily do able it would be in place right now. The first year of replay was 2005... the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West Conference, Pac-10, and SEC used replay in 2005 - the Sun Belt and Western Athletic did not. However, the WAC is gone after this year and the SBC (the WAC started using in it 2010, and the SBC started using it completely this year). Every FBS conference now uses it.




The fact is, that you don't understand it isn't as easy as point, shoot, rewatch.

Sounded much simpler when I was drinking yesterday!

[CAA Flagship]

Sounded much simpler when I was drinking yesterday!

I knew it.

[SDHornet]

Sounded much simpler when I was drinking yesterday!

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