Todd Dodge mentioned in Saturday's postgame that he called a timeout hoping to get a replay review on a Rice catch by Luke Willson that set up the Owls' winning TD. Dodge said he was informed that the nearest end zone replay camera had gone down.
A TMGR poster questioned why Dodge would call a timeout to seek a replay in a non-televised game. Associate athletic director Eric Capper told me a few minutes ago that Dodge's decision to burn a second timeout in hopes officials would go to replay wasn't a misinformed move.
I didn't remember this, but in 2008, the Sun Belt Conference bought and installed replay cameras (two for Fouts Field) for all member stadiums. In effors to be uniform with the rest of FBS, the SBC wanted all non-televised games to have replay capability. Fouts does, but on Saturday, the end zone camera nearest to the beer barn (that's my personal point of reference) went caput.
Two such cameras are each mounted at the top row of the visitor bleachers, looking down on each end zone. What looked like a Jamaal Jackson TD catch (at least from the press box) at the other end in the first quarter was not reviewed. Jackson must have been too far out of bounds to warrant a coach challenge or official replay. Either way, that camera was working.
Guessing both will be working for UNT's next non-televised home game, Oct. 9 vs. Arkansas State. Ah, Fouts.
So UNT officials didn't know until the 4th quarter that the camera wasn't working? Also, how would and endzone camera give a good view of a play that took place around the 20 yard line. Good grief.
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