Re: Mandatory time between plays as a possability with the HUNH?
Another option would be to open up certain penalties to automatic video review, such as 5 men in the backfield and 12 men on the field. Since those aren't really judgement calls like holding, pass interference, etc, and can easily be called from the booth, that would relieve the wing officials from their pre-snap duty of counting players on/off the line as well as the deep officials from counting defense and referee/umpire counting the offense.This is what I was saying the other day. The officials cannot keep up. To do so they really have 3 options:
1 - Slow the game down with a rule change (not a big fan of this)
2 - Slow the game down by having the official that sets the ball keep the offense from snapping it until all officials are set and ready
3 - Add additional officials - may even take 3 or 4 of them to truly be able to keep up with the pre-snap reads and maintain the hectic pace.
Personally I think CFB would probably prefer the 2nd option because of the additional cost involved with adding the officials.
If nothing is done - they might as well adopt arena or Canadian rules because right now the officials just cannot keep up with the pace of the game.