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NCAA - slowly ruining football (rules changes - merged)

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Apparently, Mack Brown isn't much of a fan of the new clock rule. (Be sure to cast your vote on the poll) :osu:

Ticked off: Brown says clock rules hurt Longhorns
By Joe Schad
ESPN.com

Add Texas coach Mack Brown to the list of critics of the NCAA's new football clock rules.

Brown said Monday during the weekly Big 12 teleconference that the new rules, which were designed to limit the time of games, hurt the No. 8 Longhorns in Saturday's loss to No. 1 Ohio State.

SportsNation

"They scored with six minutes left and the game was over before we had a chance to do anything," Brown said. "I really hope whoever made these changes will go back and look them over."

Under the rule changes, the clock starts on a kickoff when the ball is kicked, not when the receiving team touches it; and after a change of possession when the ready signal is given.

Brown said while games are being shortened, the fans are being shortchanged.

"One of the great things about college football is a team's ability to come back," Brown said. "Now that's limited. Our game was 22 minutes shorter. That's a little under 10 percent of our game. That's not fair to our fans. We worry about them sitting there?"

Brown said, at worst, the old rules should be in place for the last two or five minutes of each game.

Of the new rules, Brown said: "I hate it."
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Link - http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2583128
 
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I think after two weeks we all can see that the college game has been
seriously screwed up by the new clock rules and need to go.

Can the NCAA really afford to let this shit go all season?
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I don't see the relevance of this statement. There is nothing in your post that relates to net profit.

TV changed the very nature of college basketball by inserting artifical time outs that interrupted runs and disrupted the flow of the game, We got used to that. Certainly we can become accustomed to college football-lite.

Go buy something from Taco Bell or watch an episode of Dancing with the Stars. It will make you feel much better.
 
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Oh8ch;603741; said:
I don't see the relevance of this statement. There is nothing in your post that relates to net profit.

TV changed the very nature of college basketball by inserting artifical time outs that interrupted runs and disrupted the flow of the game, We got used to that. Certainly we can become accustomed to college football-lite.

Go buy something from Taco Bell or watch an episode of Dancing with the Stars. It will make you feel much better.
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Shoot me now! :bonk:
This is why I have DirectTv. I get much less commercials.
I highly recommend it!
 
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http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/09/12/12leachtime.html

BIG 12 FOOTBALL
Leach calls new rules 'stupid, insane'
Tech coach goes off on clock rules for second straight week.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Every Big 12 football coach dislikes the NCAA's new clock rules to speed up the game. But nobody dislikes them as colorfully as Texas Tech's Mike Leach.

For the second straight Monday, Leach went off on the topic when asked about it on the weekly media teleconference with the coaches. Reiterating his claim that it's "the stupidest rule to come out in a significantly long time," Leach added, "This thing's insane and you know it's insane."

"I haven't heard any good reasons to do it," he said. "There are all these little dabble-around reasons: 'Some players might get tired.' Well, I don't care if they do get tired. This is football. 'Some fans might get tired of sitting there.' Well, if they do, get up and leave. I've never heard any fan anywhere suggest the game's too long."

Leach was just getting warmed up. He proposed what he modestly called "such a great idea."

"I think they ought to limit both teams to 20 plays," he said. "Then they can really get (games) over quickly and then everybody can go out and tailgate and the players and coaches can mingle with the fans and really share in the game-day type of activity."

? Randy Riggs
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:slappy: Leach is always a great quote!
 
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I dont think the clock running is going to effect the records because they play an extra game now. That should pretty much make up for the rule change on the clock running.

For the record I hate the rule. Games have been played in less than 2hrs and 30mins. Ticket prices are going up all the time but the games are getting shorter?? Thats where the true crime is. If a game is 3, 3 1/2, or 4 hrs I want my moneys worth. If the games are too long for ya to sit in the stadium and watch, dont buy them and let a true fan get them.

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crazybuckfan40;604160; said:
One thing that is really going to hurt is the records. Are they going to put an asterik by these guys and say that they were getting 10% less plays a game.
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No, because they're getting another full game with the 12 game schedule, plus conference championship games, plus bowl game statistics which have only starting going into the record books over the last three or four seasons.
 
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i read an article that qouted toimmy tuberville (on the rules committee) that stated the new rules were temporary and can be changed..obviously we all know that...but the way he described the changes, it was almost insulting to me....i wish i had the direct quote but it was along the lines of...it's not going to affect the game, fans will hardly notice the difference, it's a great way to speed the game up.....how is a "true" fan not going to notice teams having to call timeouts after they kick the ball off to stop the clock or the fact that teams have to sprint onto the field to get their play off after kick-offs? it really sucks, why mess with a good thing? watching the dynamics of the 2 minute drill and 4th quarter defensive stands get screwed so more commercials can be run is disgusting to me....at the very least, play the game out the way its supposed to be played under 4 or 5 minutes
 
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Gotta love Mike Leach

"I think simply stated that it's the stupidest rule to come out in a significantly long time," he said.
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Then he came up with his own way of shortening the game...Just give each team 20 plays!


"I think this is such a great idea, they should limit both teams to 20 plays, then it would really get them over quickly," Leach said. "Then everybody go out and tailgate. The players and coaches can mingle with the fans and really share in the whole game-day activity."
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Dryden;604336; said:
No, because they're getting another full game with the 12 game schedule, plus conference championship games, plus bowl game statistics which have only starting going into the record books over the last three or four seasons.
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True, but the individual game records are not going to be broken.
 
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At the beginning of the season, I hated the clock rules. Now I'm indifferent. People are talking about games as if the lower number of plays gives the team that loses a competitive disadvantage. That's bullshit. Both teams have the same amount of time to try to finish with more points than the other team. Teams that are losing are not "entitled" to a comeback. You earn the win either by making the other team try to come back, or by creating a sense of urgency in time to make the rally before time expires.

When it comes to gameplay, I'm over the clock rules. What I hate about them now is the fact that announcer just won't shut the fuck up about them. You'd think that this were a sea change or something - that while none of us were looking in the offseason, the took college football and turned it in to checkers. There are still four quarters, 60 minutes. The field is still 100 yards with two endzones, and the ball is still not round. At what point do people stop talking about the damn clock rules during game broadcasts and just announce the game. It's not as if this is the first rule change in college football EVER. I get a feeling we're going to be hearing about this for seasons to come though. I mean, every time there's a replay review, we're reminded that the evidence has to be "indisputable". We've had overtime for about a decade now, and every time there's an overtime we're explained the rules and the strategy as if we were witnessing the first-ever overtime.
 
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