College Football Rule Changes

[Let'sGoZips94]

Big news. The helmet communication especially should help make the overall product better. 

 

[GP1]

5 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Big news. The helmet communication especially should help make the overall product better. 

 

I hate the two minute warning because nothing happens. Instead of this money grab, theu should institute a 20 to 25 second play clock in the final four minutes to force actual, you know, football. Fewer commercials, more plays. 

 

I like helmet communication. It's 2024 for crying out loud. 

Edited April 19, 2024 by GP1

[ClevelandZip]

4 hours ago, GP1 said:

I hate the two minute warning because nothing happens. Instead of this money grab, theu should institute a 20 to 25 second play clock in the final four minutes to force actual, you know, football. Fewer commercials, more plays. 

 

I like helmet communication. It's 2024 for crying out loud. 

I guess they saw everybody complaining about the 4 hour college football games last year and decided to make them 4 and a half hours!

[Blue & Gold]

1 hour ago, ClevelandZip said:

I guess they saw everybody complaining about the 4 hour college football games last year and decided to make them 4 and a half hours!

I have been a HUGE Zips football fan for about 30 years but I don't enjoy attending the games nearly as much as I used to.  A 1-hour game shouldn't take 3&1/2 hours to complete.

 

Of course winning would probably help more than anything. lol

[GP1]

31 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

I have been a HUGE Zips football fan for about 30 years but I don't enjoy attending the games nearly as much as I used to.  A 1-hour game shouldn't take 3&1/2 hours to complete.

 

Of course winning would probably help more than anything. lol

Two things. 

 

First, I don't enjoy going to games as much either. They are too long and too much dead time. 

 

Second, and worst of all, the people who run college athletics don't care if I go or not or not as long as more commercials are sold catering to degenerate gamblers and drunks. 

 

My question is this. Do the people at universities know they are killing the sport? 

 

There was a time in the past 80 years when professional boxing was the number one sport in the USA. Then it became a gross representation of a sport and is an afterthought. Is that where college athletics are going?

[GP1]

15 hours ago, ClevelandZip said:

I guess they saw everybody complaining about the 4 hour college football games last year and decided to make them 4 and a half hours!

Close.

 

They hear the complaints and don't care about what the average fan wants. They want to sell their souls to television networks so they can afford facilities with solid gold toilets.

 

The TV networks will destroy football and find something else for degerate gamblers to gamble on while eating and drinking everything that is shown to them during commercials. The longer the time of the game with more commercials allows degerate gamblers the time to place more bets in line. 

 

Am I wrong?  I'm open to being wrong and open to another opinion. 

[zippy-claws]

On 4/20/2024 at 9:46 AM, GP1 said:

Am I wrong?  I'm open to being wrong and open to another opinion. 

You are not wrong, IMHO.  Not equivalent, but they'll totally destroyed professional golf for the money as well.  In person, you have to be an Elite with BIG $$$ to get anywhere near a spot to actually watch the play, and at home, you get to see 5 or 6 golfers who might be in contention, while listening to hours of conversation between a player, his caddy, and the talking heads.  And the commercial time is horrendous.  Your comments on boxing were spot on, as well.  Golf commercials all appeal now to the investment-class, the high-end liquor and beer class, and the sports-betting parlors...

[GP1]

3 hours ago, zippy-claws said:

You are not wrong, IMHO.  Not equivalent, but they'll totally destroyed professional golf for the money as well.  In person, you have to be an Elite with BIG $$$ to get anywhere near a spot to actually watch the play, and at home, you get to see 5 or 6 golfers who might be in contention, while listening to hours of conversation between a player, his caddy, and the talking heads.  And the commercial time is horrendous.  Your comments on boxing were spot on, as well.  Golf commercials all appeal now to the investment-class, the high-end liquor and beer class, and the sports-betting parlors...

It makes me want to barf every time I have to hear Jim Nantz blabber on about what "gentlemen" the guys are.

 

It's so common for a player to yell at a caddy. How come they never show that?

[Spin]

On 4/19/2024 at 7:18 PM, Blue & Gold said:

I have been a HUGE Zips football fan for about 30 years but I don't enjoy attending the games nearly as much as I used to.  A 1-hour game shouldn't take 3&1/2 hours to complete.

 

Of course winning would probably help more than anything. lol

Me too. But we have to remember the tv commercials that come along with the highly lucrative (🤪) tv contracts. If a QB takes a second too long calling cadence it’s a penalty. If the network hack wants to go to commercial…

[kreed5120]

A two minute warning in college football is completely unnecessary. You already have the clock stopping on first downs. The last two minutes of a college game already feels like it takes 15-20 minutes.

[LZIp]

1 hour ago, kreed5120 said:

A two minute warning in college football is completely unnecessary. You already have the clock stopping on first downs. The last two minutes of a college game already feels like it takes 15-20 minutes.

Clock does not stop on first downs anymore for the most part if I recall correctly. Change went into effect last year.

 

i think the changes last year to shorten the games went a little too far. Don’t have much opinion on a 2 minute warning itself, but do like that it should add 1-2 more plays a game to give us some back of the 6-10 plays they took away last year.

[kreed5120]

15 minutes ago, LZIp said:

Clock does not stop on first downs anymore for the most part if I recall correctly. Change went into effect last year.

 

i think the changes last year to shorten the games went a little too far. Don’t have much opinion on a 2 minute warning itself, but do like that it should add 1-2 more plays a game to give us some back of the 6-10 plays they took away last year.

The clock still stops inside of 2 minutes after every first down. Before it was any first down throughout the entire game. The stopping of the clock inside of 2 minutes to reset the chains already functions as mini timeouts. That makes a two minute warning redundant.

[GP1]

Instead of finding ways to stop the clock, they should be implementing ways to increase the number of plays or actual action. 

 

With helmet radios, they can now shorten the play clock. 

 

Instead of the team ahead standing around bleeding the clock at the end of the game (zero excitement), they should be forced to run plays and get more first downs. 

 

I'm too lazy to look it up, but in the last 3 minutes of a half the CFL has clock changes that force the leading team to run more plays. It's better than watching the QB kneel down.