Bill Stewart, as West Virginia’s coach, knows college football’s instant replay rule.  He watches the replay on the stadium big screen. He knows he can challenge calls and ask officials to look at a play. He’ll call a timeout to give the officials or his staff time to look at a play or he’ll hurry his offense to get the next play off so the previous one can’t be reviewed.He makes one admission about the rule.

“I don’t understand it,” he said. “I don’t understand it because in the third quarter (last Friday night), Alric Arnett, on third-and-10, ran a middle route. There’s contact. It’s evident.  “I’ve watched the film. There’s contact. I asked the back judge, ‘Did you not see it?’ He said, ‘I saw wham-wham.’ If there’s going to be replay on every play, then why not on that?”

Arnett, who was open when quarterback Jarrett Brown threw the pass, was bumped by a Cincinnati defensive back and couldn’t catch the ball, but it was close and there was no penalty.  Yet, in Stewart’s eyes, if Big East Conference replay official Donald George can review nose guard Chris Neild’s fumble recovery at WVU’s 1-yard line and overturn the on-field call to award Bearcat running back Isaiah Pead a touchdown, then a possible pass interference that impacts the game should also be subject to review.

Full Article at: Charleston Daily Mail