I was thinking about this a little today. What if all penalties had to be "approved" by the booth. Almost like taking the referee off the field and having him in the booth. A flag would just be an indicator for the booth to review whatever the on field official saw. EVERYTHING would be correctable. Kind of like waving flags off now, except they could watch the replay instead of just talking about what they saw.

 

Most plays wouldn't be any different than now.

 

Penalties shouldn't take longer either. It may even be quicker for the referee to watch the play for himself than to listen to another official give a description. If the booth agrees, they communicate it to the field, or announce it directly over the speakers.

 

I know it will never happen (or at least not anytime soon), but I think it could easily be done with existing technology and without slowing the game down any. Everybody at home sees all the replays anyway, and penalties stop the game anyway.

I was thinking about this a little today. What if all penalties had to be "approved" by the booth. Almost like taking the referee off the field and having him in the booth. A flag would just be an indicator for the booth to review whatever the on field official saw. EVERYTHING would be correctable. Kind of like waving flags off now, except they could watch the replay instead of just talking about what they saw.

 

Most plays wouldn't be any different than now.

 

Penalties shouldn't take longer either. It may even be quicker for the referee to watch the play for himself than to listen to another official give a description. If the booth agrees, they communicate it to the field, or announce it directly over the speakers.

 

I know it will never happen (or at least not anytime soon), but I think it could easily be done with existing technology and without slowing the game down any. Everybody at home sees all the replays anyway, and penalties stop the game anyway.

It takes the some replay officials 5 minutes to make decisions on some plays that are so obvious that you and I wonder why they're even being reviewed. You think reviewing every penalty would be fast?

I was thinking about this a little today. What if all penalties had to be "approved" by the booth. Almost like taking the referee off the field and having him in the booth. A flag would just be an indicator for the booth to review whatever the on field official saw. EVERYTHING would be correctable. Kind of like waving flags off now, except they could watch the replay instead of just talking about what they saw.

 

Most plays wouldn't be any different than now.

 

Penalties shouldn't take longer either. It may even be quicker for the referee to watch the play for himself than to listen to another official give a description. If the booth agrees, they communicate it to the field, or announce it directly over the speakers.

 

I know it will never happen (or at least not anytime soon), but I think it could easily be done with existing technology and without slowing the game down any. Everybody at home sees all the replays anyway, and penalties stop the game anyway.

 

I usually agree with most things you post, but not here. Why even have officials if it's all going to be decided in the booth.

It takes the some replay officials 5 minutes to make decisions on some plays that are so obvious that you and I wonder why they're even being reviewed. You think reviewing every penalty would be fast?

 

COULD be. Really just a random thought, but I think its possible. 20 million untrained fans can make the right decision in 10 seconds. Officials could do it if they wanted.

I usually agree with most things you post, but not here. Why even have officials if it's all going to be decided in the booth.

 

Because you still need them for on the field stuff, and you can't have camera men running around on the field. If college football really reviews every play, its all decided in the booth already. I'm just thinking if you throw out "unreviewable" situations, and let the booth review it all.