The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel tossed out a few new rules changes yesterday. The change in overtime (mandatory 2-point conversion in the second OT; alternating 2-point plays after the third OT) got the most attention, but there’s a bunch of stuff that’s more like Miss Manners.
Unsportsmanlike tactics
In an editorial change to the rules book, video board and lighting system operators have been included in those personnel who may not create any distraction that obstructs play.
Points of emphasis
- For the 2021 season, it will be a point of emphasis for officials to penalize any taunting action directed toward an opponent. Committee members think these actions reflect poorly on the game and can lead to unnecessary confrontations.
- Officials are directed to be alert to players who are significantly in violation of uniform rules and to send violators out of the game to correct the issue. This will include specifically the pants, jerseys and T-shirts that extend below the torso.
- Coaches should not enter the field of play or leave the team area to debate officiating decisions. Those who do so will have committed an automatic unsportsmanlike conduct foul.
I guess the NCAA feels like on field officials don’t have enough to keep track of already during a game. I can’t wait to see what happens the first time Nick Saban violates that last bullet point.
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where is the violation for the post game presser, “lord helmet” costume
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So if the videoboard operator in Auburn or Columbia gets two in a game (easily obtainable on the opponents first drive), will they have to turn the damn thing off for the rest of the game???
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As long as they toss that silly sumbitch responsible for the incessant banty rooster crow in the quivering dead cockroach USCum calls a stadium then I’m behind that new rule 100%.
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Throw in Sandstorm and I’m with you.
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Its ticky tacky but not really that big of a deal. I really dislike the removal of Oklahoma drills and the shortening of some of the fall practice. That seems like its more worrisome if that trend continues.
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The Oklahoma drill doesn’t seem to serve any real purpose anymore, and anything to minimize impact and collisions during the week was gonna move through.
The OT rules are the ones that are so stupid. OT is lights out exciting as it is, but it’s a completely different game than the one we were playing in regulation, so it makes no sense to make it even more different.
Just give us the tie back, and no one will be happy.
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One of the best football games in the modern era came down to a coach’s decision to go for 2 at the end of regulation rather kick for the tie. Nebraska likely wins the national championship in the ‘84 Orange Bowl if Osborne kicks the extra point (remember 10-9 knocked out #2 Texas earlier that day) for the tie. He decided to go for the win to end all doubt. The Miami run began that night when they defended the 2 point play.
That decision no longer is in play.
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Nothing stopping a team/coach from going for 2 late to win.
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Are you kidding? If Kirby had gone for 2 in the Rose Bowl and not made it, he would have been absolutely roasted.
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Minimizing contact is the issue I have. The removal of it is a slippery slope and has a trickle down effect through all the age brackets. It starts with the pros, goes to college, and then finally to high school/middle school. Eventually, players will get to college that have no idea how to block/tackle properly since the only place they ever had a chance to perform it was in live games. The product on the field will be sloppy and injuries will go up because their bodies aren’t used to live contact. I really don’t like the trend of removing contact in practice that we are witnessing.
As far as OT is concerned, I’d just take the sudden death version that the NFL does.
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(This comment is not directed at you, Biggen, but in general!)
I hear you, but if the Oklahoma drill is what I remember (two people running at each other full speed), that’s not a great teaching moment, either.
And I know this is anathema to say, but if we get to things like “fast break football” and we no more guys in the trenches with blunt force collisions multiple times a game multiple times a year, I’m kind of okay with that.
And let’s be real: the size and speed and strength of these kids today is so much great than when any of us might played, throwing themselves against each other constantly is likely a very bad idea.
It makes me wonder if we’d complain about NCAA mandated water breaks, too.
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You’re spot on in the decreasing contact in football!! You’ll see more injuries and targeting fouls since tackling will no longer be taught. Th e Oklahoma drill and the Bull in the Ring brought real football to the training player in a matter that prepared him for the game big time! Maybe flag football is the game of the future…with minimal blocking!
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I detest the changes to the overtime rule. It sounds like college football is going the way of penalty kicks and hockey shootouts to break ties. I hated the overtime rule before, but it’s not football now. I would rather see them go back to the days before overtime or adopt the NFL’s rule except that each team gets one possession.
On the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, this is ridiculous. How about making offensive holding, ineligible receiver downfield or offensive pass interference a point of emphasis?
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Read that last night, “just like in hockey” comment gave me cause for one more adult beverage….
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Should mandate no kicking points, field goals or extra points, after regulation. That would shorten it up in a hurry…and let the dominate team on the field win.
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Once again, that’s not football. That’s the reason I like using the NFL overtime but with the tweak that both teams get one offensive possession regardless of the outcome of the receiving team’s first possession. I want to see the kicking game and field position be part of it.
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The NFL’s rule, to me, is silly. I like that they tweaked it so that if the first possession only gets a FG that the other team gets a chance to tie or win, but having a sudden death situation dependent on the outcome of a coin flip is ridiculous after playing 60 minutes of football to a tie. At least in lacrosse SD OT, play is started with a faceoff so it comes down to something that the players on the field control. The new college rule takes an already gimmicky system and makes it worse and it reeks of the baseball rule to start extra innings with a runner on second base.
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In football, there is no better way than a coin flip to determine who gets the ball first in the NFL overtime. I think both teams should get the ball once regardless of whether the receiving team scores a TD. If it’s still tied, finish the quarter and play sudden death. I want an overtime that looks like the game rather than something gimmicky.
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I’m not saying that there is a better way than the coinflip in the NFL (and it is how the game is started in regulation…so I guess that it is consistent). But I agree that the college system is a total gimmick. The new rule about conversions is terrible. Why not back the ball up to the 50 at least? Or just play it straight up for another OT period even if shortened somewhat?
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I think the rationale is that after a 60 minute contest and and two complete overtime possessions each the rules committee sees a health risk to putting fatigued kids back on the field for a lot more plays. A lot of those players are freshmen who are going through a harder, longer grind than the ever had before by mid-November and are more susceptible to injury.
Agree with the validity of that rationale or not, I don’t care, but if you are suggesting an alternative overtime your suggestion will be a nonstarter if it doesn’t reduce the number of plays after 2 overtimes before a game is decided than we had before.
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I would be totally cool with playing a 10 minute period instead of a 15 minute overtime period as long as both teams get the ball once.
I think we’re on the same page. I would prefer an overtime period that is real football over what we have now.
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He’s the Nickanator, the Czar of CFB nothing will happen. It will happen to Kirby when he he is playing Bama and cause UGA to lose.
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“t-shirts below the torso”? Who gives a sh***….
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I agree. They already allow them to wear shorts so why complain about a t-shirt.
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The long T-shirt thing was starting to look ridiculous. Looked like a f’n skirt. Kirby kind of kept a lid on it, but I remember Pickens having an extra-long white T-shirt in the bowl game that the defense got away with grabbing a couple of times to slow him on his route. The bike shorts thing will get taken care of too because there’s a line in the referenced statement requiring the kneepad to actually cover the knee.
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“I want the refs to be paying more attention to taunting and uniform violations,” said no one ever.
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Unsportsmanlike penalties are pure cancer.
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I think it would have been funny as hell if they had used examples of taunting including throwing a shoe and simulating dog urination.
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I see a lot of “Playing while Georgia” penalties this year.
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We don’t get many of those anymore. They are like the illegal procedure penalty that we used to lead the country in that they have mostly disappeared except for one game when we had 2-3 in a row on a punt. The SEC protects its best teams.:)
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Probably because Penn(is) Wagers retired.
These just seem like a perfect chance for assholes like Wagers, Marc Curles and other incompetent boobs like them to influence the game based on their personal biases. You know, sort of like that prima donna AJ Green getting the unsportsmanlike penalty from Curles that cost us the LSU game. Or that hot head Mark Richt getting the unsportsmanlike from Pennis Wagers while Auburn was committing felony assault.
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There was serious discussion amongst rough men about teaching Curles a lesson for that stunt. Only potential repercussions against UGA saved him from a serious attitude adjustment.
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Saban already got flagged for it in the SEC Championship maybe? Or was it the semifinal?
He’s going to need one of those shock dog collars to train him to stay on the white line.
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Love the first bullet. It’s always bothered me how the refs stare down every player who just scored looking for any minor celebration (AJ v LSU).
And yet they miss much of the on-field taunting, which in my view is much poorer sportsmanship.
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This’ll kill all that Sandstorm/Scoreboard shit at Sanford West.
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I really don’t want to see a redux of 2009, where anything short of being a complete robot after a TD results in the opponent getting the ball on your side of the field. The AJ one was so egregious from an outcome standpoint, but also remember the Vandy guy vs. Florida who got flagged for scoring-while-black.
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Re Overtime: they’re going to have to adjust the player sideline box, otherwise we’re going to be treated to 44 players running 50 yards on and 50 yards off every 30 seconds. That will be a joy for O-Lineman, I’m sure. Probably a ploy for 3 minute commercials after every play.
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So, does this mean they’re going back to the days when a UF player doing the chomp was celebrating, but when an opposing player did it after making a play it got flagged for taunting?
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Fortunately, we’ve got Scott Sinclair to keep Kirby from getting on the field. Imagine if we gave that job to Boom.
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Auburn is the worst about flashing distracting symbols when the opponent is on O. I’m glad the NCAA did that.
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