Pac 10 Changes Standard for Replay Reversal to "Having a Good Feeling"

In an interesting move, Pac 10 Head of Officiating Dave Cutaia has eschewed the easy road of admonishing the terrible replay reversal made in the Notre Dame-Stanford game and instead has elected to rewrite the rules of replay. Cutaia sent out an e-mail that explained the justification for the Pac 10 replay crew's unbelievable ruling:

The replay official felt he had a shot that showed the point of the ball hit the ground... This is basically a judgment call on his part, as an on-field official might judge defensive pass interference.

And with one fell swoop of the... well, keyboard, I guess... the Pac 10 has completely changed its benchmark for overturning plays with instant replay. I guess it's time for them to update their website, which still has the outdated standards for video reversal... you know, "indisputable video evidence" and whatnot. The site needs to be updated to reflect the new, completely opposite standard: "having a good feeling" and "making a judgment call irrespective of video evidence".

All sarcasm aside, Cutaia, in what appears to be an attempt to defend the video official's ruling, has essentially publicly admitted that they made a mistake. Maybe he should have a chat with Verle Sorgen, the Head of Replay Officiating in the Pac 10. Sorgen, I'm sure you'll remember, was fired from Cutaia's job after the Oregon-Oklahoma replay fiasco last year and was admonished by Pac 10 commish Tom Hansen for his comments after the Oregon State-Washington replay disaster of two weeks ago.