Teams that play 12 regular season games, a championship game, and 3 rounds of playoffs will appreciate it
BREAKING NCAA proposes new rules for college football in 2023
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I like all the proposed changes. The first down rule takes at least a little bit of the air out of “basketball on grass,” which I hate. Puts at least some emphasis back on a sound running game.
Basketball on grass won’t truly end until the OL downfield rule goes back to the NFL’s 1 yard. But I fear that ship has sailed for the college game — it’s the only thing that allows about 2/3 of teams to have at least a puncher’s chance against better talent.
No problem with the elimination of untimed downs at the end of the 1st and 3rd quarters.
Like the rule against two consecutive time outs. Icing the kicker with multiple time-outs gets tedious.
Basketball on grass won’t truly end until the OL downfield rule goes back to the NFL’s 1 yard. But I fear that ship has sailed for the college game — it’s the only thing that allows about 2/3 of teams to have at least a puncher’s chance against better talent.
No problem with the elimination of untimed downs at the end of the 1st and 3rd quarters.
Like the rule against two consecutive time outs. Icing the kicker with multiple time-outs gets tedious.
I fully agree. Playing time will be shortened, but the TV coverage time will expand to increase the commercials IMHO.
The NFL is the best proof of concept. Commercials have indeed steadily expanded. But the clock rules still produce a shorter, more predictable, game window.
If you want to be bored, watch a golf tournament on NBC. They only cover about the top 3-4 golfers and then mostly putting. Every hour of coverage includes at least 20 minutes of advertising.
TV does not exist to entertain us..it exists to sell us something...even if we are already paying for the privilege of viewing via cable or streaming fees.
I am not making this up or exaggerating.
In 1988, NBC showed the Summer Olympics from Seoul, South Korea (that's the one where Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis got caught doing illegal drugs but only Johnson got his name besmirched and Lewis acted like the arrogant hypocrite he is) and some reputable TV watchers with their clocks timed the coverage throughout.
For every hour of coverage for which they'd paid billions, NBC showed 26 minutes of actual Olympics and 34 minutes of commercials. One pundit quipped, "It was nice of NBC to give us a break from all those commercials with a real quick sporting event here and there."
Those commercials along with the insufferable and never-ending "life stories" segments, NBC's over-the-top broadcasts, lack of actual event coverage until primetime, and professionalism in most sports make the Olympics unwatchable anymore.
NBC decided decades ago that they had to market the Olympics to women, who tended not to be sports fans. So, they focused on the two least sports-like sports---gymnastics in the summer and figure skating in the winter---and a lot of soap opera-like human interest stories.
(Not that gymnasts and figure skaters aren't great athletes. But judge-based competitions are inherently less sporting than those where a clock or a scoreboard determine the winner.)
As I noted above - coaches should not get to call the timeout a nanosecond before the ball is snapped on the late game/game-ending FG.
True story: it took 24 full minutes off the real world clock to play the final minute of the first half of the 1981 Alabama-Penn State game. I have that game on DVD and it is UNBELIEVABLE how long it took.
YouTube has a 45-minute clip. I probably watched it live but don't remember for sure; I had just moved to the state and had only a passing interest. I know I watched the next game, where Bear beat Auburn and got the all-time record of 315 games. (We played Penn State in the week before the Iron Bowl---my, how times have changed!)
You can add hockey, soccer and racing to that list.
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Since this game was brought up I'd just like to let everyone know if they are interested in seeing the sequel to "The Goal Line Stand" then watch this game since it might be just as impressive as the original with the Bama defense stuffing the Penn State runners 4 consecutive times on the 1 -yard line. I was surprised Paterno tried it again after what happened in the Sugar Bowl but I know he was a very stubborn man who I guess thought history would not repeat itself. It did.
I’d make a rule that you can’t call time on a kick once the play clock reaches five seconds.
The purpose has nothing to do with the broadcast time. It is about the number of plays which impact the players.
That's what they'd like us to believe...Commercial time wins...
That may be. But what do you think TV will do with the extra couple minutes gained from game shortening?
Without a doubt. It will still shorten the game and reduce the number of plays.
If the NCAA is so concerned about player safety and length of game I'd sure like to know why they made rule changes over the years to encourage so much passing. This has resulted in a lot of injuries to QB's and WR's after taking a lot of nasty hits, along with ridiculous scores with both teams in the 40's or 50's. If they made a couple of rule changes to make passing less attractive they'd have less injuries, a shorter game and football scores more in line with historical norms.
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