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Posted on 08/09/2006 8:23:57 AM PDT by MikefromOhio
The NCAA rules committee approved eight rules changes in May that will take effect for the 2006 college football season. And while the amendments range from the mundane (shortening halftime) to the marked (instant replay will be used throughout Division I-A for the first time), it's a rule change governing the game clock that has aroused some coaches' ire.
According to Rule 3-2-5, the game clock will start as soon as the ball is kicked in a kickoff situation. Previously, the clock would only start once the receiving team touched the ball. In addition, Rule 3-2-5-e states that, after a team gets a first down, the clock will begin running again on the ready-for-play signal. Previously, the clock did not resume until the team snapped the ball.
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Penn State coach Joe Paterno brought out another perhaps unintended effect of the new rule.
"When you kick the ball, [the clock] starts. Kick it out of bounds with 8-10 seconds to go, the game's over," Paterno said to USA Today. "We've got to expose our kids to it in preseason practice."
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There doesn't seem to be a rational reason for the time-clock rule changes.
There isn't.
Although I do kinda like the first down tweak to the rule, as the ready to play signal generally takes 10-15 seconds to get ready for, so they still have time to get a player in and out.
But the kickoff rule is absolutely STUPID.
It won't be around next year.
This is the way I remember the NCAA rule anyway. If they're changing to this, then they changed away from the old rule within the last 6 years or so and are changing back now.
But the kickoff rule is absolutely STUPID.
100% agreed. Not only stupid, but patently unnecessary.
It's been at the snap for at least 20 years and probably longer.
It's just that teams now use that entire time that they are setting the ball and the chains, and then using the entire 25 second playclock on top of that. In the past, they didn't use all of that time.
Maybe conferences have different rules. I remember a Purdue-Minnesota game just a few years back where after Minnestoa tied up the game with only seconds to go, Purdue got the kickoff and completed a long pass to past midfield, in-bounds, with only 1 second left on the clock. They rush the FG unit on and snap as soon as the ref signals ready for play, in order to get the play off before time expires, and kick the winning FG. The Minnesota bench was whining that Purdue couldn't have gotten the snap off in time.
hmmm....
what year?
No earlier than 1998, and probably later. The kicker was Dorsch, I believe, and it might have been Brees as QB.
I don't get it. Football has enough rules as it is. Why make more? (Although now that I think about it, Congress does the same thing).
Darn.....
That one didn't have much of a chance....
Again another stupid rule they debated.....
Yeah, that woulda been a great idea and coulda increased "attendance" (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Calypso Louie, etc.)!!!!!
Link provided rather than quote due to policy against posting from USA Today
Crap, how many college players can actually learn new rules in one season?
It's for Television... to fit the game into a nice, neat 3-hour time slot.
Most of them I think :)
Remember this only really affects the coaches and the quarterbacks...
and unless your name is Bomar, I think you'll be able to figure it out :)
I thought kicking out of bounds resulted in a penalty, and that the game couldn't end on a penalty.
You know, that's probably the justification they are using...
But you still only get the ball on your 40....that's still a hell of a throw to try to complete....
Unless they shorten the commercials, the only casualty will be the game itself. Of course, the networks would prefer not to have to show the pesky football game in between money making commercials. You know what CBS stands for right: Commercial Between Snaps.
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