Valley Football teams to experiment with replay
CARBONDALE, Illinois -- Missouri Valley Football Conference schools could be mandated to use instant replay in as soon as the next two years, according to commissioner Patty Viverito.
Two schools, Northern Iowa and North Dakota State, plan to use instant replay in all their games after the league approved experimenting with the process for televised games this fall. Before this year, Valley Football teams could only use replay during games against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents or in the playoffs.
"I think it's an expense that everybody anticipates taking on, eventually. I just think it happened a year ahead, or two years ahead of where we anticipated, in terms of the investment," Viverito said. "But, you don't have to buy the equipment. You can rent the equipment on a game-by-game basis, so, I think that's why a couple of the schools are looking to see, to do just a game or two with rented equipment and then determine if it makes sense for the investment."
Instant replay has been steadily growing at the Football Championship Subdivision level over the last four years. The MEAC used it in televised games through its package with ESPN networks in 2011. The Big South and SWAC experimented with ...
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