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John Collins

John Collins

NCAA National Coordinator of Men's and Women's Soccer Officials; U.S. Soccer National Referee Coach with 35+ years of soccer officiating experience.

May 28, 2026

19:49
Ooh.
19:49
So when you use video review, mostly Division I conferences use it.
19:54
Some Division II and some Division III use it, but for the most part, it's mostly Division I.
19:59
And so we're, the, the rule has now been changed on who can initiate the video r- uh, review.
20:06
Uh, prior to this season, the referee would be re- responsible for the initiating the video review, and under a certain amount of things, a penalty kick, no penalty kick, a red card, no red card for violent conduct or serious foul play, and those kinds of things.
20:21
And offside that leads to a goal, those kinds of things.
20:25
So n- now, to get in line with the rest of the NCAA, in also acknowledging, I think, the fact that we don't have a, an automatic designated video match official, although that's been added this year as well as an option, um, we are moving to the challenge system.

24 MINS LATER

44:40
Yeah.

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