[NU Sports] Q2: Columbus

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> You are right that technically, all plays are
> reviewed.  But it is obvious 
> that is not the definition of "reviewed" that ABC
> was using for their 
> statistic, so my point still stands.

Except that by using a percentage, you are getting an
equal representation of all the conferences. If it had
said that 200 calls were overturned in the Big Ten and
50 in the SEC, we'd have no idea what the pool was or
whether that was a high or low percentage.

But the stat said percentage -- so whether it's a
large pool of reviewed plays or not, the fact remains
that more calls in the Big Ten are overturned by
replay than in the other BCS conferences (i.e. Big Ten
refs get it wrong on the field more often so thank
goodness we have replay:) ).

> technical advisor remains silent.  But there is no
> way that 40% of all 
> reviewable -- and thus technically, reviewed --
> plays were overturned.

No - just 40% of close calls that went to the booth.
Where in other leagues, the percentage overturned was
lower. That's all the stat said and that's all review
does - look at close calls on the field, and in the
Big Ten's case, those calls weren't correct in a
higher percentage of instances.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT



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