LESS FOOTBALL, DESPERATE GAMBLES

We never had a 4 point lead. A 10 point lead, yes. A 3 point lead as well. Never a 4 point one though.

If we did have one, I’d hope we flash it like gold plated tits, that’d be the first pair seen on campus all night.

Count me among the contrarians, but I like the new clock rules. If I wanted to spend four-plus hours watching ONE sporting event, I’d watch the Yankees foul off ten pitches per AB against some tomato can throwing for the D-Rays — or get a big ol’ satellite dish and take up watching cricket.

For the folks who actually attend a game instead of watching on tv, it’s great. For instance, last year we sat through four hours in 95 deg+ temp in Knoxville to watch a game. A good game it was, but, four hours? This Saturday, in Norman, the game was crisper and quicker and much more tolerable for the attendees.

I think attributing the decrease in number of drives to the clock rules alone in one game might be a bit much. Once teams get their acts together (either by getting the offenses better organized to get their butts on the field or teaching the defensive players how to line up and spike the ball after fourth down in “two minute drill” situations), the clock rules should only shave off a few seconds per change of possession.

Plus there’s some bogus misinformation going around; Mike Patrick was going on about how the first down rule had changed, but it’s the same as it always was in college: on an in-bounds play that results in a first down, the clock stops while the chains are being moved and resumes when the ref signals “ready for play.”

In no way shape or form do I want to see less college football.

The new rules suck.

That was a great movie by the way. A classic.

Again, the reason for the length of games isn’t the clock rules, it’s purely the advertisers and needing to have 5 minutes of commercials at every opportunity. I haven’t heard one TV commentator with the cojones to point out the elephant in the room with regard to game length. Gold plated jorts to the first one to do so.

It will let teams that have difficulty running out the clock and maintaining posession off the hook because the clock effectively takes away a time out from the team trying to get the ball back. Punting with less than 4 minutes on the clock (as Miami did) will be considered idiotic. This may not be a bad thing.

Given the state of the Gator running game and the difficulty the Gators had in running out the clock against Iowa, Urban may come to enjoy the rules, however, while nursing leads this season.

They should waive the rule if the game is less than 10 points and under 5 minutes left — thus meeting the objective of speeding up most games but not depriving the fans of close game comeback drama.

More to the point — who was complaining about games lasting too long anyway?

The problem is the insane amounts of ads that make the games four hours long. Less football more ads. Why not just charge more per 30 second spot and fewer overall spots.

Gailey would be pimping a four point lead if each quarter was a fortnight long.

Dammit, I just fired off a too-long comment that’s not showing up- rather than double post, I’ll just say screw the NCAA and their rule changes, anybody who doesn’t want to watch as much college football as possible can go watch the latest episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos. Oh yeah, I went there.

And another thing, it’s better for the players. Oh yeah, that’s right, they’re not that important.

Why not just forgo football altogether and show a 3 hour infomercial? Players won’t get hurt, and they’re sure to graduate. Plus, you could have a 15 game season plus a playoff!

Changes scare people. Sometimes it’s good.

I agree it’s all about the advertisers.. nothing worse than the seemingly eternal TV time-out lulls when attending a game.

Makes you long for the non-stop action that is the Copa Mundial..

Urban better watch out. The media owners won’t tolerate that for long. I think bigmike said it the best.

“..nothing worse than the seemingly eternal TV time-out lulls when attending a game.”

yes, yes there is something worse:

when your game isn’t even televised and you’re waiting on a damn RADIO time-out.

I think people just need to get used to how a minute on the clock this year doesn’t equal a minute on the clock last year. The risk-adverse and arena football teams still will have their same nature, but will put their respective strategies into place sooner. For example, risk-adverse teams might start trying to milk the clock at 6:00 instead of 4:00, but it’s still the same strategy that they’ve always employed.

We’ve also got a reverse-Maris situation in regards to stats and points. With less possessions in each game, look for scores in general to look lower. Also because of less posessions, Reggie Bush’s all-purpose yards mark against Fresno State now will probably never be broken.

I dunno, Bush’s record could fall. Colorado hasn’t played a Div 1A team yet….

While I agree that we could gain time back by cutting the stupid advertisement, I am a little pissed that we lost playing time and gained instant replay time.

I love replay, but how many freaking minutes of my life did we lose because the officials were afraid of making the wrong decision in the FSU/Miami game? I believe that it’s one of the unfortunate aspects of our blogified/YouTube world where everything can be dissected online immediately- if you can cover your ass by going to the video, you do.

Bottom line, I’d rather the game was solved on the field rather than in the commercial break or the replay booth.

I wouldn’t mind the new rules if they limited the number and length of TV time-outs. A faster game all-around, with more momentum and more action but in less time, would be fine with me. What I don’t like is less football with the same amount of commercials. I’m sure someone has mentioned it before, but soccer manages to get by in most of the world without obnoxiously long commercial breaks.

Also, why not shorten half-time?

http://wehatethenewclockrules.com/

A college football game should be like Parker Posey’s career: so long, you can’t really remember a time when it wasn’t taking place. And something about gold-plated tits.

ESPN has to be behind the rule change. They were afraid games were running too long, and didn’t want Sportscenter coming on at midnight.

As I posted in another thread, I didn’t notice a difference at the Ohio State-Northern Ilinois game. Bad game to judget the difference though since it was 28-0 after 15 mins 5 secs.