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Published: September 18, 2006
Replays become crutches for refs
By Berry Tramel
The bosses called and wanted my take on replays. Easiest assignment of autumn. I say what I've always said about the replay system.

It stinks. It's always stunk. It has no other choice. It's designed to fail.

Even if replays right wrongs, the system fails because it produces "poorer officiating. Passive officiating. Castrated officiating."

That quote is from me, last November after the Texas Tech fiasco. Wh...

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