CHARLOTTE, N. C. (AP) — Video panels covered the wall with crisp, high-definition images of Atlantic Coast Conference groups betting on Saturday’s first full list of the season. Alberto Riverón watched intently, observing every detail imaginable as the new manager of the league. Football officials.
That is, until a game stops to review the replay.
Riveron walked around the venue to sign up with staff who were doing replays and consulting with stadium officials about a marksmanship penalty. Moments later, a definite replay angle appeared on a wall monitor, with the organization reading and discussing the footage frame by frame. .
“It’s the only shot you want to see,” Riveron said with a bit of luck as a staff member communicated through the helmet with stadium officials confirming the call.
Each Power Five convention uses collaborative replay, which uses a centralized location to assist on-site managers. For the ACC, the event takes place here, in a high-tech gaming center, more than three times the size of its predecessor, in the league’s new headquarters, in a downtown tower overlooking the NFL’s Carolina Panthers Stadium.
Charlotte to Irving, Texas (12 majors); Pittsburgh (Big Ten); San Francisco (Pac-12) and Birmingham, Alabama (SEC); The purpose is the same: to make the right resolution and do it quickly.
“We’re not going to, halfway through the third quarter, move the ball a meter or a meter and a half, or put a moment on the clock,” Riveron said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Because once again, the players play, the coaches work out and the referees will referee. At the end of the day, we’re all going to make mistakes. It’s about catching the big mistake, the blatant mistake and being consistent throughout the process. “
Seven years ago, the ACC and SEC used collaborative review experimentally and reported their findings to the NCAA Rules Committee, while Pac-12 used it on a limited basis. This has an integral component of refereeing at the highest level of sport.
Steve Shaw, NCAA’s national coordinator of football officials, said the meetings monitor the accuracy of officials and report rates above 95 percent in all leagues. Data provided through Shaw or in strength meetings shows that replays run into many of the real-time calls that traverse chaos on the ground.
External review centers, Shaw said, play a supportive role. It starts with a stadium replay manager that prevents any review from being performed.
“People think collaborative review is the Wizard of Oz: smoking, knowing everything, being everything, trampling on everyone,” Shaw said. “Collaborative repetition is really the opposite of that. You let the others guilty of repetition do their job. You supervise everything. The only time you interfere is when things go in the wrong direction or if they don’t, they don’t have a reviewable facet of the game. “
For 2022, 820 games were canceled by reviewing replays of 1,927 saves (42. 6%) on the FBS for normal season and league championship matches.
The average strength convention in 2022, with some leagues restricting their knowledge to the normal season, others adding balls, was similar (44. 5%). The big 12 had the lowest of this organization with 34%, followed by the SEC (35. 2%). the Big Ten (46%), ACC (50%) and Pac-12 (54%).
Doing so temporarily is challenging.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney needs “a good, streamlined process” in each and every game. North Carolina coach Mack Brown needs “more critical complaints in a shorter period of time. “For Shaw, the national purpose is much more specific: staying lower than the two-minute average, from the announcement of the exam to the resumption whistle of the game.
The average FBS review in 2022 was 1 minute and 55 seconds. For strength conferences, 4 out of five were in the 90-second range, while the Pac-12 was close to the target in 2 minutes and 6 seconds.
Despite the involvement of more voices in the process, Shaw said collaborative repetition improves speed. It’s about having more eyes looking for the most productive replay while co-piloting stadium officials by comparing replays and walking step-by-step to interpret the rules.
“Many, many criticisms end with the stadium’s replay manager leading the entire process and collaborative replay managers listening,” said John McDaid, Shaw’s successor as the SEC’s coordinator of football officials. “And in the end, just say, ‘Are you okay?’ And the worker says, “Yes. “And we move on. “