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Musings for Friday - It's Time for Colleges to Own Their own Cameras for Instant Replay [1]

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Date: 2022-11-25  

This is a celebration, not a replay. I just needed a representative picture of collegiate football.

This is a discussion about a detail of college football, not a debate about anything outside of the topic in the title. If you’re here to discuss anything else please move on. Don’t play dumb, you know what I mean.

I don’t know about you, but when I watch or attend a collegiate football game I notice a big discrepancy on replays depending on network coverage and whether a game is national or regional. Without getting into the details of the rule for replay, let’s get into the inequality of national games versus regional games.

It comes down to the number of cameras and the angles of those cameras. Even whether or not there are pylon cameras or flying cameras. Why does this matter? Everybody practices as hard as anyone else but come gameday whether or not a touchdown counts may be determined by whether or not there are enough cameras to give the officials the proper angle as to whether or not a knee was down or a ball crossed the plane of the goal line. The number of those cameras are determined by the broadcasters.

I’m not beating up on the officials who can’t change a call to the correct call because the rules set the guidelines, but the number of cameras to determine an official has at their disposal to reverse a call on the field. The phrase they use is indisputable evidence. That means that even if they cans see a call should be reversed but there’s a but of if in making that determination because they don’t have the right angle to make the call indisputable, the call on the field stands.

The next thing that comes into play is cost. The number of cameras would be determined by the level of play FBS vs FCS etc. In other words all the big schools would have the same number of cameras and the same for the FCS and so on. And by owning their own cameras the schools could use them for other sports as well as instruction for degreed programs in broadcasting.

If you only watch pro football you won’t notice what I’m talking about because the coverage for all pro games are consistent. The college game? Not so much. I’ll be attending a game this afternoon that because it is will be treated as a national game will probably have the full compliment of cameras, but last week in the same stadium because the game was “regional” there were less cameras.

Okay, now you know one of my pet peeves. Can we get the word out?



Oh! If the networks balk on colleges owning equipment, then the comeback is to tell them to provide equal coverage via equal cameras.

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