Q&A with David Parry, national coordinator of football officials
By Jon Solomon -- The Birmingham News
November 09, 2009, 2:06PM
David Parry, the former supervisor of Big Ten football officials, is the national coordinator of College Football Officiating (CFO). He serves as the national spokesperson for college officiating issues, creates and develops national training programs, assigns and evaluates postseason officiating crews, and coordinates discussion with the officiating community.
Parry talks about the latest SEC officiating controversy...
Q: Did you get a chance to see the Alabama-LSU play in which LSU thought it had an interception late in the game? And if so, was replay correct in keeping the call an incompletion?
"I looked at it. It's a humdinger. But by the standard of indisputable video evidence, I don't think you can reverse it. I think that's what the replay officials felt. I'm looking at it from my TV at home and didn't spend a lot of time going back and forth reversing it. It was extremely tight, as I remember it. I saw that play and thought, 'Boy, whoever is upstairs has to make a tough, tough decision.'"
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