re: Why can't college football have replay booths on the field?

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Couldn't agree more. There have to be 45-50 guys in Montana or Idaho who would love to officiate SEC football on weekends in the fall.

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Do you know how expensive and time consuming that would be? The reason the SEC officials are all from the southeast is for travel considerations. It is easier (and cheaper) to live in the Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham, Jacksonville metro areas and fly/drive to the SEC campuses than it would be to do so from Boise, Cheyenne, Detroit, etc.

Also, as it stands right now in SEC rules, an official cannot be an alumni of either school on the field. What I would like to see happen is that an additional rule be put in place where an official cannot be an alumni of a big rival of either team on the field. Case in point this year - the referee in the Georgia/Tennessee game is a Vandy alum. Go back and look at the number of PI calls that could have been called against UGA and weren't. I'm not saying that the Vandy alum was the reason for that, but if he had not been there it would have taken away any appearance of impropriety.