Rule Changes Intended To Shorten Games

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

1 and 2 are fine. 3 I don’t love but could live with it. CFB is NFL junior now anyway so may as well follow their timing rules.

4 is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

 

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

1 and 2 are fine. 3 I don’t love but could live with it. CFB is NFL junior now anyway so may as well follow their timing rules.

4 is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

Pretty much agree with you on all counts.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

1 and 2 are fine. 3 I don’t love but could live with it. CFB is NFL junior now anyway so may as well follow their timing rules.

4 is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

IMO 4 is thrown out there purely as a negotiating tactic so 3 will be accepted as a "compromise."

These all (except for #1) reduce the amount of football being played - I notice there are no serious talks about reducing the amount of non-football activities during a game.

Over 1/4 of a broadcast is commercials, and less than 1/4 of the actual 60 minutes is there actually a live play happening. Just flat-out gaslighting to pretend that the increased game time is anything other than media-driven.

 

[Jay Bilzerian]

I’d rather limit the length of time spent on replays/reviews than anything else.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I’d rather limit the length of time spent on replays/reviews than anything else.

Like 3 angles, 1 real time, 1 slow mo, if it's not egregious just fucking leave it

 

[iruletheskool]

Please no to all 4

 

[Carm]

This will never happen, I know, but wouldn't it be simpler to have four 30 minute quarters with a running clock, time stoppages only for timeouts (and officials' time outs to accommodate commercials), with much more limited review of officials calls? The average game is 3 hours and 22 minutes now - it seems this would get games back to 3 hours total time for sure.

I realize it guts a lot of late game milk the clock techniques; that just means you go into the two minute offense earlier.

 

[doublewing]

CFB is NFL junior now anyway so may as well follow their timing rules.

This is all they need to do. Most NFL games are done within 3 hours and 15 minutes. No need to experiment on something that already works for the NFL.

 

[Bootleg11]

I would suggest going to listen to the Cover 3 Podcasts take on these rule changes.

Very interesting. It's all in the name of "safety"

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I would suggest going to listen to the Cover 3 Podcasts take on these rule changes.

Very interesting. It's all in the name of "safety"

SaFeTy

 

[CornFed Gregger]

IMO 4 is thrown out there purely as a negotiating tactic so 3 will be accepted as a "compromise."

These all (except for #1) reduce the amount of football being played - I notice there are no serious talks about reducing the amount of non-football activities during a game.

Over 1/4 of a broadcast is commercials, and less than 1/4 of the actual 60 minutes is there actually a live play happening. Just flat-out gaslighting to pretend that the increased game time is anything other than media-driven.

Shorten games & maybe they open up enough room for an extra time slot

 

[LoudHogRider]

Just flat-out gaslighting to pretend that the increased game time is anything other than media-driven.

It’s kind of hard to look down your nose at the media companies that will be dropping $80M/school each year under the new contract structure. It stopped being a game for the fans in the stands a while ago, IMO.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

It’s kind of hard to look down your nose at the media companies that will be dropping $80M/school each year under the new contract structure. It stopped being a game for the fans in the stands a while ago, IMO.

I more have an issue with the gaslighting about why games are longer. It's the media.

Maybe it's worth it, maybe it's not, but cutting away more of the game is killing the golden goose by 1000 cuts.

IMO, they'd be able to charge more for commercials if they were during a shorter, more captivating TV production; and they'd also be able to monetize their production in a lot of other more tenable long-term ways if they got creative about how to advertise without holding up the game as much.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

1 and 2 are fine. 3 I don’t love but could live with it. CFB is NFL junior now anyway so may as well follow their timing rules.

4 is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

This is exactly the way I think about it.

 

[Ext. 55]

I guaruntee that somewhere in all this, there is a person from Cockeye involved…how can you tell you ask??? Cause most of this is dumb as shit!

 

[nja13]

I've never left a college football game and thought, "You know what would have made that better? Less college football."

 

[alt f4]

4 is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

The same thing was said when the NCAA changed the clock to run when spotted when previous play was out of bounds.

 

[alt f4]

Even in games I do without media timeouts we're seeing game times of 2 hours 45 minutes to 3+ hours and most range between 175 and 200 plays per game. I've been a part of games of pass happy teams which ran 3 1/2 hours and nearly 300 plays.

One clock stoppage for first down or incomplete pass increases game time by 8 seconds.
Clock not stopping on incompletions would reduce 4 minutes of game time.
Clock not stopping on first downs would reduce 2 1/2 minutes of game time.

Combined that's around 20-25 plays per game reduced.

 

[redzoner]

If they really cared about player safety they would start by making them wear their helmets properly and actually putting their mouthpiece in their mouth.

My guess is we will have less plays but the game will be the same amount of time so they can make more revenue on advertising.