Personally, I am tired of watching running plays turn in to rugby scrums 2 to 3 times each game. Between this being allowed by rule in college football and the SEC officials being entirely too slow to blow the whistle when plays are obviously over, players are going to get hurt. Thanks for letting me rant a little.
The rugby scrum needs to go in college football
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Yet I see it in the NFL every weekend. It happened earlier in the Saints/Bears game.
Yeah, but the threat is there so it is rarely done. In college football it is done at least 20 times per game.
What seems to happen in the SEC games is the ball carrier's forward momentum is clearly stopped for a long enough period for the dang refs to blow the play dead, but of course they don't....which gives time for the 300 pounders to come plowing through with a good head of steam to push the pile. Hate to pile on the refs(not really), but I think if they would just blow these plays dead when it is clearly obvious to the average fan that it should be, then we wouldn't have these type plays.
Unfortunately I was thinking the same thing. Last night we had the UTe RB stopped after two yards and the pile got pushed for an additional 10 yards. I was thinking only way to stop it is to submarine the pile to get the runner to on the ground. Then you’re increasing the injury risk to several players.
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In rugby, a scrum is a way to restart play after a penalty. In live play, what we’re really talking about is called (I kid you not) a maul...
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Not a problem if your interior defenders are strong enough to stop the guy before the pile gets there. We aren't this year, so it has been a problem for us a few times.
Not to be technical but, the term you are looking for is a rugby maul. A scrum is a set piece play like a down in football. A maul is where in open play a ball carrier is held up by contact and his teammates can bind to him and keep driving forward until stopped or collapsed to the ground. [emoji16]
In the Tennessee game I saw a lot of plays that should have gone for three yards extend for a First Down. The Refs are very slow to blow the whistle.
It wasn't a rugby scrum but I'm still torqued about a high school game we lost 0-7 in the late 1960's. A swarm of tacklers hit the other team's running back behind the line of scrimmage and drove him back about 10 yards but he wasn't put on the ground. We thought the ref had blown the play dead and turned the guy loose but they didn't and he ran it for a TD.
One of my problems with all of society and sports is looking the other way instead of repealing rules. If we are not going to enforce the rule then eliminate it.
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