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

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Do you know how expensive and time consuming that would be?

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Do you realize how many millions of dollars are made from a single football game? Surely the conference could afford a few hundred extra dollars to fly in officials that have no ties to the Southeast.

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Also, as it stands right now in SEC rules, an official cannot be an alumni of either school on the field.

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There are hundreds of thousands of fans of each school in the SEC, minus Vandy, who didn't attend the school they route for on Saturdays. Just because a referee didn't attend a certain school doesn't mean he isn't a fan of one of the teams playing. And there isn't really a way to police that, so the best way to minimize the chance of bias is to get officials from outside of the area.