As noted in the morning coffee, Mack Brown held an interesting, if belated, press conference on Tuesday. Among the topics that came up in the transcript was whether Mack considered challenging the ruling on the field after Texas' first two unsuccessful goal-to-go plays on the opening drive:
When you consider that only one out of six coaches' challenges is resulting in an overturned play, the smart move is probably saving the timeout, especially in situations like the one Brown faced. The low number of overturned calls across the country, though, is surprising. From the October 20th USA Today article:
<parenthetical>This article did, I'd like to note, inspire one of the single stupidest comments of the entire year, from blogger College Football Resource, who wrote, and I quote, "This says a lot about the coaching in these leagues, in some ways."
And what would that be, CFR? That Big 12 coaches are stupid? More aggressive? Blind? Greedy? Bad with TiVo?
Think before you speak, people.</parenthetical>
I only bring up Mack Brown's thoughts on this because the college football replay system isn't working. It's not so much that the replay systems can't work, it's that the process by which plays get reviewed is a loony one. BON joins SMQ in calling for a replay system modeled after the one currently in place in the NFL: coaches are allowed a limited number of challenges; under two minutes in the half and only the booth may instigate review.
--PB--