Illinois 28, Ohio State 21 (final)

[Thump]

Originally Posted by lvbuckeye

i can handle the loss, but this is the part that is really sticking in my craw. why? because no one on the staff monitors the replay. they don't even have a monitor in the coaches' booth, and that's from coach Tressel's own mouth. it is incredibly frustrating to me to learn that our staff has not taken advantage of the replay innovation some three years after it was initiated.

How about blaming our scoreboard crew who never shows any replays during the game?

It's called a home-field advantage, we should look into it.

[Jaxbuck]

I thought it had been established the official called the play dead and so it wasn't reviewable?

[sandgk]

Originally Posted by Thump

How about blaming our scoreboard crew who never shows any replays during the game?

It's called a home-field advantage, we should look into it.

I agree wholeheartedly with that - even if the play is not controversial it is good to get a review of the action.

[buck1973]

Originally Posted by lvbuckeye

i can handle the loss, but this is the part that is really sticking in my craw. why? because no one on the staff monitors the replay. they don't even have a monitor in the coaches' booth, and that's from coach Tressel's own mouth. it is incredibly frustrating to me to learn that our staff has not taken advantage of the replay innovation some three years after it was initiated.

Per NCAA rules, the coaches are not allowed to have monitors in the booth.

Prohibited Field Equipment
ARTICLE 9. a. Television replay or monitor equipment is prohibited at
the sidelines, press box or other locations within the playing enclosure
for coaching purposes during the game. Motion pictures, any type of
film, facsimile machines, videotapes, photographs, writing-transmission
machines and computers may not be used by coaches or for coaching
purposes anytime during the game or between periods

http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2007/2007_football_rules.pdf

[lvbuckeye]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

I thought it had been established the official called the play dead and so it wasn't reviewable?

if that's the case, then they need to revise that part. it was clear that the ball was out before he was down.

[buck e]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

I thought it had been established the official called the play dead and so it wasn't reviewable?

Maybe I'm wrong on this, and maybe this is an NFL rule and not college, but when a play is blown down by mistake, I thought an opponent could still recover a fumble when blowing the play dead didn't make a difference in hindsight. In other words, like yesterday, the play was (maybe?) blown dead when it shouldn't have been... yet OSU was clearly going to and did recover the fumble. Nobody from Illinois had a play on the ball. If that's not the rule, it needs to be.

Also, in 2004 it became a point of emphasis for Big 10 officials to NOT blow plays dead immediately. The refs clearly blew it in that regard. That's not a judgment call... that's forgetting/ignoring a league office mandate.

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by lvbuckeye

if that's the case, then they need to revise that part. it was clear that the ball was out before he was down.

agreed. The official on the field made a huge error. Our coaches and the replay official did not.

[lvbuckeye]

Originally Posted by buck1973

Per NCAA rules, the coaches are not allowed to have monitors in the booth.



http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2007/2007_football_rules.pdf

since that is the case, i wholeheartedly agree with Thump that they need to show the replays on the scoreboard.