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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 84716" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Competition: fair/unfairTechnology has had a beneficial influence on modern sport. The application of video replay to improve referee decision-making eliminates a lot of bad decisions that teams and player had to live with before. Now even these are still evolving as video reviews, inadvertently give coaches free time-outs, often at the end of close games where they may not have had an unused time-out saved up to use, but they will figure this out too. Hearing the players, refs, or coaches grunt in real time is not really enhancing the sport. Referees mastered hand signals a long time ago. Giving coaches the ability to whisper into the athlete&#039;s ear in real time seems almost un-sportsmanlike... the players are supposed to do some decision making for themselves. While all sports engage in an information competition of sorts. Well not sure whether that is good or bad, or just is... JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 84716, member: 126"] Re: Competition: fair/unfair Technology has had a beneficial influence on modern sport. The application of video replay to improve referee decision-making eliminates a lot of bad decisions that teams and player had to live with before. Now even these are still evolving as video reviews, inadvertently give coaches free time-outs, often at the end of close games where they may not have had an unused time-out saved up to use, but they will figure this out too. Hearing the players, refs, or coaches grunt in real time is not really enhancing the sport. Referees mastered hand signals a long time ago. Giving coaches the ability to whisper into the athlete's ear in real time seems almost un-sportsmanlike... the players are supposed to do some decision making for themselves. While all sports engage in an information competition of sorts. Well not sure whether that is good or bad, or just is... JR [/QUOTE]

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