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Message: [QUOTE="Dollar Dog, post: 4022539, member: 7597"] Another issue I have is the standard they use when executing replay. By official standard, the field call should ONLY be overturned if the replay is "conclusive". It seems that way too many times they try to employ a standard of "probable" or "more likely than not". When there is a field call of a catch out-of-bounds, officials should not be spending 6 minutes, looking at 4 different angles trying to determine if they can see a single blade of grass between the tip of a receiver's white-shoed toe and the white sideline. Then if they think there is [I]most likely[/I] 1/16th of an inch between the toe and the sideline (no matter it could be shadow, some dirt on the side of the shoe, or a video blur) they overturn the call and rule a catch. They are trying to use replay to call the perfect game. But that should not be the intention. It invites too much subjectivity. A perfect example from the VT game is Blackshear's 30-yard pass play in the 2nd quarter (upheld) versus Queeley's 1st down conversion in the 4th quarter (overturned). Both plays involved whether a pass was cleanly secured or barely touched the ground before that. There was an equal amount of doubt on both. Yet they gave Blackshear the benefit of the doubt but overturned the same kind of call on Queeley based on evidence that was no clearer. Honestly, the Blackshear catch looked a tiny bit better to me. But they should not be splitting hairs. The Queeley replay was not 100% and the replay official knew that. Heck, even a VT fan would probably admit that. But replay official felt [I]pretty darn sure[/I] and went with reversal. If I was a replay official and could not make a call after 1 or 2 views and less than a minute, that would be a big red flag that the video by definition is not conclusive and I should be leaving the field call alone -- instead of trying to be some all-knowing sky-eye because it might look good on my performance review. [/QUOTE]

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