I Hate the New Clock Rules
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I’ve never met a person that thought the game was too long. Except for one game … the freaking B1G championship vs Wisconsin. THAT game was too long.
I thought the estimated 8 plays. Will be curious how many the average comes down after the first week vs last year.
I thought the estimated 8 plays. Will be curious how many the average comes down after the first week vs last year.
exactly
you think George Washington and Stonewall Jackson were worried about injuries when they invented football?
f*ck no!
I think it’s a bit like baseball where TV networks want to speed up the game. They don’t want games running over 3+ hours anymore.
Yeah they last too long because of all the media timeouts. But since the networks overpaid for the rights, we know they won’t be cut out.
Yes ,it has to do with the TV timeouts . Obviously they aren’t changing them. So they go to shorten. the game another way. If you can control the ball on offense the clock should run.
Less plays means yearly/career records will be much harder to break.
Unintended consequences for “progress” to keep the younger generations engaged in sports… LOL
Unintended consequences for “progress” to keep the younger generations engaged in sports… LOL
I was just going to say this. There will be untouchable records now due to the less plays.
I can think of a Big12 championship game verses Texas that was literally one second too long.
I tagged your response although it doesn't address your post, but since you, scarlet, Tuco and others play a lot of college games, I just wanted to put this out there early.
Obviously, I'm a really experienced horse gambler, but only made my 2nd bet on college football in 40 years.
I'm not a newbie to the "concept" of football wagering, but I think, in my world, I'm going to be more apt to take points rather than give them in certain type spreads.
Some teams like Tennessee, I don't think will be that affected when they have the ball because they're snapping it with 20 seconds on the play clock, but, it allows some of their opponents to maybe cost the Vols 6-8 plays a game due to the clock running on first down. The way they score so fast some times, it could cost them a couple possessions.
At any rate, I'm gonna play it by ear because it sure didn't hurt Dame today giving 20.5 they easily covered.
Not to insult anyone's intelligence, but the gambler in me says to watch how games the first couple weeks play out and see what type of matchups or spreads be might affected and give a guy a measurable angle.
I'm probably gonna be more of a 5-6 team parlay guy anyhow.
Eliminate instant replay reviews to shorten the damn games. The sport survived for over 100 years without replay. Or… allow each coach one challenge per game. But this crap of the replay folks in the booth stopping ten plays a game for review is a ******** time waster.
I can get onboard with 1 challenge per game, maybe increasing it to 1 challenge per half for CCG's and postseason play. The excessive use of instant replay certainly eats up considerable time and disrupts the flow of the game.
Not being able to stop the clock briefly after a first down would seem to punish a team with a young QB. I'm sure the college game already feels like it's going 100mph for some young QB's.
True, but I think even with the new rule that the clock will stop after a first down during the final two minutes of each half. So at least a young QB will have some pressure removed while running end of half offensive plays.
Where was this rule change 5 years ago? How many games did we lose in the final seconds/minutes of the game these past few seasons. Frosty would still be here if this rule change was incorporated then 
But you’d still have the jackasses in the both running the replay several times, keep replay but shorten the review time, if they have to slow it down and go frame by frame to see if it’s a catch or fumble to me that ruins the spirt of the game the on field official sees the play at full speed unless it really glaring the call should stand by the call on the field
I think the games are way too long, but it has everything to do with excessively long media timeouts and unlimited replay reviews. Changing the clock rules is a stupid way to try to address the problem.
The NFL has actually implemented some creative solutions to not only make the games shorter, but also better-paced. Fewer and shorter media timeouts and 12-minute halftimes, to name a couple. Those split-screen, in-game commercials during huddles are also fine with me. Who cares about watching a huddle?
After a bigger sample size would like to see average number of commercials in each scenario.
When you have networks paying BILLIONS of $$$$$ for the rights to televise the games, you have more commercials to reimburse the networks. When there are longer commercial breaks to reimburse the networks, you have longer games. The companies that reimburse the networks expect something in return for their money. The companies will only spend what they can afford so the networks need multiple companies to reimburse them. You want shorter games, then have fewer commercial breaks... There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza
Ok, that's genuinely funny. Can't wait for the NCAA to brag that "We SAVED 5.5 plays and 3 whole minutes!".
Looking forward to seeing the numbers after a larger sample - but a handful of plays may not seem like a lot but it’s close to 8% - after more samples will it get to 10% … that’s a big deal with records etc. Would be great if the powers that be flipped it back but I. Sure there are a lot of egos on the line. Also to masquerade this as a safety issue is so ridiculous.
The reason you have replay is to get the call right. But it’s frustrating when I can sit in my living room and look at a replay once and see what the call should be but the guys in the booth take forever.
Nebraska would have 2 more National titles if replay existed in the 80s and 90s
I'm still for instant replay, but the people in the booth should not be allowed to slow the reviewed play down so much that it takes five minutes to watch a play frame by frame and ruling it not a catch because the ball touched a microscopic piece of grass first. They should get three views of the play and then have to make a call like the refs on the field.