Comments on: GO LIVE, PART TWO: NEW RULES SUCK.

By: me

me — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:53:16 +0000

Let’s find a way to complain to the NCAA or whoever made this rule change. Then, lets get everybody (since everybody knows this is a stupid rule change) to continually call/email or whatever and give them hell about this crappy rule. We can see if we can have an affect and maybe they will change the rule back for next year.

By: DawgsOnline » How long does it take to play a 60-minute football game?

DawgsOnline » How long does it take to play a 60-minute football game? — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:05:09 +0000

[...] EDSBS suggests something like this today, in their own way of course. Their conclusion is exactly correct: "The rules don’t innovate; if anything, they point to a failure of imagination on the part of advertisers and the rules committee." You can tell us that television revenue is the fuel of this exploding cash cow and that the NCAA and the schools that benefit from TV money will do what it takes to keep the money coming in. (Ironic given the lip service paid to amateurism, but that’s another post.) EDSBS’s bottom line still stands – the NCAA through its lack of creativity has spoken clearly and chosen to gut its own product instead of reign in advertisers. [...]

By: ohiodawg

ohiodawg — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:13:56 +0000

All of these rule changes are bs.

Anything that tends to make CF look more like the NFL is bad. Definitionally.

By: Hokie Andrew

Hokie Andrew — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:33:04 +0000

Steve,

I suspect the answer has something to do with the desire to run more ads in the same, or possibly shorter amount of time. ie lets say the current model has games that are 3.5 hours long with 30 minutes of commercial time. If you can squeeze that down to 3 hours with 45 minutes of commercials, people in advertising boardrooms will make bank.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:06:25 +0000

What the hell is the problem with long games anyway. If two big games coincidentaly overlap espn/abc usually does a good job of brodcasting kickoff for one game on espn or espn2 while the first game is in running long; this extinguishes the need for a more strict daytime game schedule.

As for primetime… Are they worried the games will cut into the local news (Carl Monday grilling helpless gas station attendants as to why it costs three bucks for a gallon of gas as if the minimum wage employee has anything to do with the pricing scheme of Exxon and, of course, posting up at public libraries…) I mean what else is going to be televised on Saturday that would worry the stations about game length?

I mean ads suck but we’re all used to them. If it means so much , just add more of them during longer TV timeouts. Don’t shorten the length of the actual game by altering the rules!

By: Aerobab

Aerobab — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:01:37 +0000

The sweaty dancing girl in the Old Spice commercial is okay to stay, however.

Correction, Tom: I believe she “glistens”…not sweats.

By: Boston Dan

Boston Dan — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:34:17 +0000

There’s more:

kicking tees down from two to one inch

halftime down to 20 minutes

instant replay

http://www1.ncaa.org/eprise/main/playingrules/football/2005/6-9-2006RulesChanges..pdf?ObjectID=39324&ViewMode=0&PreviewState=0

By: Rome

Rome — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:57:11 +0000

Hey TV douschebag, how about we skip the 5 minutes of comercials after a punt or a kickoff?

Why not make each quarter 6 minutes long. Works for me in my NCAA2007, and I still managed to put 56 points in Tennessee….. using ARMY.

Here’s an idea, compliments of George Carlin. No player substitutions. Leave the injured on the battlefield. I wonder how well Tommy Frazier runs the option when he has to hurdle one of his running backs, and both offensive tackles while the opposing team is at full strength.

By: Orson Swindle

Orson Swindle — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:39:04 +0000

Also good suggestions.

By: Bruce Ciskie

Bruce Ciskie — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:36:02 +0000

–>Then if this does not fall on television, Bruce�we�re not suggesting that it falls on advertisers�how do you get to the NFL model, if that�s what you�re aiming for?

Orson, I don’t know that we need to get to the NFL model, which is far from perfect.

But the game clock needs to run more often than it does in college football, because four-hour games are going to get old in a hurry.

To illustrate what I’m talking about with TV not being a problem, there are eight scheduled media timeouts in each half of a college football game, for a total of 16. The NFL has 23 scheduled media timeouts during regulation.

These totals do not count timeouts taken that do not affect the flow of the game (i.e. a network running a :30 or :60 break during a timeout).

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:31:21 +0000

Then if this does not fall on television, Bruce�we�re not suggesting that it falls on advertisers�how do you get to the NFL model, if that�s what you�re aiming for?

You keep the clock running when the officials are moving the chains on first downs and you limit the amount of time available for video replay. The first one fundamentally changes the game, and I’m not wild about it. The second is just common sense.

But I tend to also be from the “stop having a touchdown – TV timeout – kickoff – TV timeout sequence” school of thought.

We’ve all sat in the stands and felt the life drain out of a rowdy crowd when there’s one play in six minutes. It’s not like the nice folks at home are really gaining anything by watchign the ATV spot, stupid Applebee’s commercial, and TWINS! sequence one more time.

The sweaty dancing girl in the Old Spice commercial is okay to stay, however.

By: Orson Swindle

Orson Swindle — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:15:04 +0000

Then if this does not fall on television, Bruce–we’re not suggesting that it falls on advertisers–how do you get to the NFL model, if that’s what you’re aiming for?

By: ohiodawg

ohiodawg — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:56:58 +0000

For the same general reason (if it ain’t broke…) and for many, many reasons of its own, I encourage everyone to spread the gospel of SCRAPPING INSTANT REPLAY in all of its ESPN/Advertiser/Sportstainment-driven forms.

To paraphrase the silver surfer, what the NCAA has done, the NCAA can undo.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:54:11 +0000

YEAH! if dinosaurs went extinct, then why do we have ALLIGATORS?

By: Cool Hand Mike

Cool Hand Mike — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:51:38 +0000

Hell yeah Adam. I bet they believe dinosaur bones are real too.