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Football Officiating => NCAA Discussion => Topic started by: TXMike on February 04, 2016, 04:08:34 PM

Title: Look for some changes this year
Post by: TXMike on February 04, 2016, 04:08:34 PM

http://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2016-02-04/ncaa-football-health-and-safety-lead-rules-meeting

Much like politicians..the committee will likely feel compelled to act on health and safety rules so they can say "they did something".  Hopefully, unlike politicians, they will do things that actually DO have an impact, i.e. tweak the low blocking rule.

Title: Re: Look for some changes this year
Post by: TexDoc on February 05, 2016, 10:14:08 AM

CUSA didn't have a medical observer, not in our IR booth at least.  This could slow the game down a bit with more reviews, but probably a good move.

Title: Re: Look for some changes this year
Post by: xkath on February 05, 2016, 01:12:52 PM

Already eliminated blind-side and peel-back blocks, how else do you see the rules committee tweaking the low-blocking rules?

Title: Re: Look for some changes this year
Post by: TXMike on February 05, 2016, 01:22:40 PM

I have heard Dr Redding speak on it and if they let him write it I suspect it will follow the NFHS rule and only close line blocking is where blocking below the waist would be allowed

Title: Re: Look for some changes this year
Post by: TXMike on February 06, 2016, 07:01:10 AM

http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaaf/writer/jon-solomon/25474518/college-football-will-consider-expanding-replay-for-targeting-rule 

Some more detail.  The 2 types of severity of targeting is perfect for us without IR

Title: Re: Look for some changes this year
Post by: BrendanP on February 06, 2016, 02:36:53 PM

"Additionally, the committee will consider allowing the instant-replay official to stop the game and enforce a targeting foul that was not detected by the on-field officials."

Oh please no. Replay has already slowed the game down enough, and this is only going to make the targeting problem even worse. Same with the sliding defenseless player rule. Let's at least remove the "first half of next game" rule and adopt the basketball model the AAC has proposed. This is the perfect opportunity to fix the targeting rule.

Title: Re: Look for some changes this year
Post by: Joe Stack on February 12, 2016, 10:17:39 PM

Here is a writeup on the proposals:


http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/football-rules-committee-proposes-enhancements-targeting-rule (http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/football-rules-committee-proposes-enhancements-targeting-rule)