SEC coordinator of football officials Steve Shaw said Wednesday that he and commissioner Mike Slive share concerns about college football's controversial targeting penalties and will work this offseason to adjust the rule.

Specifically, Shaw believes the sport's rules committee should address the 15-yard penalty that remains even after a targeting penalty is overturned by the instant replay official.

Ramik Wilson's ejection was overturned for Georgia on Saturday but the 15-yard penalty remained, allowing Vanderbilt to keep the ball en route to a key fourth-quarter touchdown. SEC officials want to fix that so that the penalty can be overturned, too. Don McPeak/USA TODAY Sports

"I think that's where we probably get the most concerns, and I would tell you even our commissioner has serious concerns about the penalty philosophy around targeting fouls when they're overturned," Shaw said at the end of the conference's weekly coaches teleconference. "So he and I have talked. He's challenged me, and together we're going to work with the rules committee to revisit the penalty if a disqualification is overturned for targeting."

Shaw said there have been 52 targeting calls at the FBS level this season, which is actually down from last season. He believes players are beginning to get the three-pronged message regarding hits to the head and neck area of defenseless opponents: keep your head up when making a tackle, lower your target and wrap up on the hit.

"The rule is working as the rule's makers wanted it to," Shaw said. "As we all know, the game is under attack, and we're getting more and more information about concussions and the impact -- short term, long term -- but there's a lot we still don't know. So the rule was intended to modify player behavior."

However, the new penalties attached to a targeting call have been sources of major controversy. On Saturday, SEC officials threw four flags for targeting, resulting in immediate ejections to Florida's Cody Riggs, South Carolina's Kadetrix Marcus and Georgia's Ray Drew.