I was recently made aware that the Ohio High school athletic association has voted to make video review mandatory for all High School Playoff games. The review system has been a dismal failure on both the college and professional levels. Even with review they often get it wrong. It is expensive and delays the game. Come on Ohio!

***********UPDATE 2-16-2019

Joel Bigalke Update

The rule was approved by the NFHS which is the National Federation of State High School Associations.  The rule is not mandatory replay in High Schools.  It does how ever open the door for replay to be used.   The OHSAA – The Ohio High School Athletic Association said that they would adopt those rules.  The rules for replay are not going to be mandatory at every High School playoff game.  With the Number of schools and divisions in the state that means that there is over 250 playoff games in the state each year.  So the Ohio rule just says that if the video is available then it can be used for replay in certain situations.

This actually makes things worse.  Now you will have certain situations were replay could be used and other situations where it is not going to be an option.  The rule is not actually put in place yet so at least for this year replay will still not be permitted.  When it does go into effect you will possibly have teams in the same division playing with different rules.  This sets a very bad precedent and creates some issues.

Replay even when you have the best equipment still gets things wrong.  Replay in sport is not the end all to get things right that people thought that it would be.  Over the last few years the usefulness of replay has been suspect.  It absolutely interferes with the flow of the games.  We seem to get the same amount of bad calls that we got before.  If the top levels of all sports have trouble implementing replay.  There is no reason to believe that replay in High Schools will add anything to the games.