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Football Officiating => NCAA Discussion => Topic started by: fbljuj on September 13, 2010, 08:41:15 AM
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Sorry if I missed it and did a search before the post but the new rule reference for eye shade is : In other news, the committee clarified several equipment issues for 2010, including an issue regarding “eye black.” The committee agreed that if a player elects to wear eye shade, it must be solid black with no words, numbers, logos or other symbols.
However, how much is too much? Our game Sat. had several of the players on the defense with the eye shade on most of their faces (from the bottom of the eyes to around their mouthes). Is there any wording in the rules that makes this illegal?
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I think the rule was about the little black stickers with logos or numbers on they used to wear last season, just like the ones Tim Tebow used to wear in Florida
http://drafttimes.playitusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TimTebow4.jpg
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I think the rule was about the little black stickers with logos or numbers on they used to wear last season, just like the ones Tim Tebow used to wear in Florida
http://drafttimes.playitusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TimTebow4.jpg
That's correct. The actual wording in the NCAA posting was "If eye shade is worn it must be solid black with no words, numbers, logos or other symbols." So there doesn't seem to be any "quantity" restrictions.
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So what we are saying is, they can paint their faces with the "eye" shade and no foul, interesting.
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We had several players Friday that their "eye shade" was down below their mouths.
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I've seen teams that looked like a bad impersonation of KISS.
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2 studies found the adhesive eye black strips did nothing for the wearer although eye black "grease" did:
A Univ of NH study on eye shade: http://www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal/05/articles/powers.htm
Another study: http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/121/7/997
And a Popular Science article on it: http://www.popsci.com/entertainment-amp-gaming/article/2009-01/power-darkness
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Key words are: "effort to intimidate their competition"
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If the competition is intimidated by too much eye black, they've already lost the game.
Excessive eye black is silly looking, not intimidating.
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Why do they face paint?
From a study of Apocalypse Now:
Masks are used at key points throughout the film to symbolize the anti-self—the new identity each character assumes in order to deal with the war, an act that requires a symbolic killing of the old self. Willard’s smashing of his reflection in the first scene suggests such an act of self-destruction. By the end of the movie, numerous characters have donned masks or painted their faces with camouflage, signs that they are no longer themselves. When Lance seems finally to reach his breaking point, he drops acid and hides his face in camouflage paint. Kurtz’s face is often obscured by shadow or darkness, and when Kurtz throws Chef’s severed head into Willard’s bamboo cage, he does so wearing face paint. Finally, when Willard prepares to kill Kurtz, he covers his face in mud. These masks underscore the dramatic transformation of the human self during wartime.
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That's deep Mike.
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Lance? must be a tight end ;D