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Cincydawg

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If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« on: December 12, 2019, 05:36:23 PM »
What would it be?

Rules change?

Recruiting?

Playoffs?

Bowl selection?

Paying players?

More cheerleaders?

Better bands?

A 110 yard long field?

Safeties worth 4 points?  Field goals worth adjusted by distance?  (A 50 yarder would be 5 points, 40 would be 4, etc..)

Practicable means it could sort of happen, unlike say eliminating commercial delays during games.  We'd be ALL over that one.

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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2019, 05:43:33 PM »
legit refs.  maybe even professional refs.  

i didn't watch a lot of B1G games this season, but i can tell you the SEC was terrible- absolute mockery of 'regulating' the game.  without shame in many cased.  betting is now legal in many states and CFB is second only to NFL, and i strongly suspect there a correlation.  i can't tell you how many time this season i thought to myself "no. freakin. way. did they just call that", and just to say in the same game "how did they miss that?".  
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2019, 05:45:42 PM »
Cheerleaders can't wear winter coats and snow pants. If they want to wear 20 layers of tights under the uniforms, fine. But the outer layer should always be the traditional cheerleader uniform.
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2019, 07:36:24 PM »
I don't care for the rule that if a defensive player jumps into the neutral zone, without making contact and causes an offensive lineman to jump, it is a penalty on the defense.  The offensive lineman knows that snap count and is protected by a helmet and shoulder pads. I would eliminate that rule if possible. 
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2019, 07:41:57 PM »
yup, go back to 70s rules for the O-linemen

gotta be on the line of scrimmage and ya gotta be set and stay set

NO HOLDING!!!  NO grabbing with your grubby fat fingers
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2019, 08:28:53 PM »
At least once per broadcast each announcer should be required to say something derogatory about the Wolverines.
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2019, 08:29:40 PM »
No playoffs, old poll system, sugar and orange opposite each other in prime time on 1/1.
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2019, 08:37:20 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 12, 2019, 07:41:57 PM
yup, go back to 70s rules for the O-linemen

gotta be on the line of scrimmage and ya gotta be set and stay set

NO HOLDING!!!  NO grabbing with your grubby fat fingers
Love it
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2019, 08:37:50 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on December 12, 2019, 08:28:53 PM
At least once per broadcast each announcer should be required to say something derogatory about the Wolverines.
If it's a big game, they usually do.  :88:
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2019, 08:44:58 PM »
Reduce the roster volatility.

Close the transfer portal, but still allow transfers, but with no waivers.  Grad transfers can still go without sitting a year, and no rule about only if your school doesn't offer the program.

But on the flip side, formalize the offer process.  Offers are written and comfortable, and you can never have more official offers out than the max number of allowable scholarships.  Only limitation would be pending academic acceptance.  The scholarship offers are also valid for the entirety of your eligibility, even if it's 5 or 6 years.
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2019, 08:47:02 PM »
And if it had to be an in game rule, Id go to a 100% coach's challenge replay system.  Unlimited challenges, but each one wrong costs a timeout.
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2019, 09:14:07 PM »
I can't believe I'm saying this, but bring ties back.  
Sudden death overtime genuinely isn't fair (despite there being a nearly 50/50 outcome).
The current overtime rules are video gamey.
Ties suck, yes.  But you earned that tie.  You weren't good enough to win.  They feel deserved.
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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2019, 09:43:56 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 12, 2019, 09:14:07 PM
I can't believe I'm saying this, but bring ties back. 
Sudden death overtime genuinely isn't fair (despite there being a nearly 50/50 outcome).
The current overtime rules are video gamey.
Ties suck, yes.  But you earned that tie.  You weren't good enough to win.  They feel deserved.
Yes.  There was something satisfying and illuminating about the discomfort of a tie.  Sort of a nobody deserved to win moment.  My favorite was when Pat Tie Dye managed to salvage a tie vs Tennessee coming back from down 26-7.  Tenn fg missed a GW fg, and a player was filmed chucking a water cup at the kicker on the sideline after the miss, while Dye's team was celebrating.  That was Pat Dye, no balls.  Need to find video of that.  Think it was 1990 or 1991.
Conversely that final tie, 3-3, Ill at UW, the game deserved it.

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Re: If you could change one practicable thing about CFB ...
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2019, 09:45:33 PM »
Plus I hate OT.  The whole concept is very unsatisfying.  
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