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Football Officiating => NCAA Discussion => Topic started by: TxSkyBolt on February 15, 2017, 08:55:25 AM
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http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-targeting-penalties-ejections-may-see-sizable-reductions/
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There is a god after all. I might be able to watch CFB again if this passes. Hallelujah!
This is what I've said needed to happen for a few years now. Let's hope they pass it and finally fix this rule.
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I don't think the rule is broken, it may need some slight fine tuning but it's an essential addition to lower people's target areas.
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I don't think the rule is broken, it may need some slight fine tuning but it's an essential addition to lower people's target areas.
And to eliminate the DBs looking for ways to "blow somebody up". That isn't football. Tackle the guy, hit a Receiver hard, all perfectly fine. Head hunting, not so much.
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This is where we'll disagree forever. Football is supposed to be hard hitting and tough, and that's why this rule was unnecessary and a bad idea. The only thing it succeeded in was making football unwatchable That's why I think the XFL was before it's time. If they brought back that brand of football in 2017, it'd succeed because it was football the way it was meant to be: a team and character building sport complete with family-friendly violence as my dad used to describe it.
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This is where we'll disagree forever. Football is supposed to be hard hitting and tough, and that's why this rule was unnecessary and a bad idea. The only thing it succeeded in was making football unwatchable That's why I think the XFL was before it's time. If they brought back that brand of football in 2017, it'd succeed because it was football the way it was meant to be: a team and character building sport complete with family-friendly violence as my dad used to describe it.
I realize most of the information on the following page was before you were born, but there is some pretty good stuff in there. Football used to be a very dangerous sport. With modifications in equipment and rules changes over decades, it's not nearly as dangerous as it used to be.
http://nocsae.org/about-nocsae/history-and-purpose/
Based on this article, I don't think there are many who think the sport is unwatchable.
http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2016/12/179-million-fans-watched-100-billion-minutes-college-football-games-espns-tv-networks-2016-college-football-season-15-million-unique-devices-streamed-espn-games/