Because the football-following world continues to course of the implausible end result of Saturday night time’s Western Michigan-Michigan sport, it is sensible to think about any and all concepts for avoiding an identical end result — on the faculty stage or within the NFL.
Present NFL guidelines would haven’t given Michigan a mulligan, as a result of issues of clock timing cannot be reviewed except two or extra seconds stay.
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One other NFL rule would have slammed the door on an additional snap for the Wolverines; as former NFL senior V.P. of officiating Mike Pereira instructed The Athletic, the professional soccer protocol entails counting on the stadium clock that’s seen to everybody — not a separate clock seen in the course of the replay-review course of.
“It’s my understanding that if there’s a discrepancy between the video and replay command middle versus the tv community video that everyone sees, that replay is to make use of the TV video,” Pereira instructed The Athletic. “And that’s the identical protocol within the NFL, within the UFL. It is the identical. You employ the footage that everyone sees if there’s a discrepancy.”
There’s one other potential safeguard that might be employed in such conditions, at each ranges: clocks exhibiting tenths of a second, when the time slips beneath one minute.
The Eagles proposed this method twice lately, in 2023 and most lately in 2024. The trouble failed in 2023 as a result of most of the present clocks weren’t able to exhibiting tenths of seconds, and groups did not need to spend the cash to adapt to the brand new rule. The proposal failed in 2024, too.
Pennywise. Pound silly. If/when the NFL experiences a scandal much like the one which performed out in Ann Arbor, the house owners will want they’d written the checks for brand spanking new clocks.
