New rules

[azgreg]

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The NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight panel on Friday announced a significant change to how kickoffs are treated. Moving forward, kickoffs that land inside the field of play between the goal line and the 25-yard line can now be fair caught and taken to the 25 as touchbacks. The move essentially extends the end zone out 25 yards on kickoffs, a significant and obvious attempt to limit the number of runbacks.

Other rules changes:

– The 40-second play clock will now start before PAT or 2-point conversion attempts, and the 40-second clock will start more quickly after kickoffs.

– Collaborative replay reviews (such as in-stadium officials communicating with the conference office) may continue on an experimental basis.

– Leaping rules on field goals and extra points were adjusted to mirror those on punting plays, where leaping over the frame of the body of an opponent is illegal.

– Penalty enforcement on field goals will now be treated the same as extra points, where unsportsmanlike calls on the defensive team can now be accepted on the ensuing kickoff.

[ASUHATER!]

That will eliminate almost all kick returns then

[PHXCATS]

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1 The NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight panel on Friday announced a significant change to how kickoffs are treated. Moving forward, kickoffs that land inside the field of play between the goal line and the 25-yard line can now be fair caught and taken to the 25 as touchbacks. The move essentially extends the end zone out 25 yards on kickoffs, a significant and obvious attempt to limit the number of runbacks.

Other rules changes:

2 – The 40-second play clock will now start before PAT or 2-point conversion attempts, and the 40-second clock will start more quickly after kickoffs.

3 – Collaborative replay reviews (such as in-stadium officials communicating with the conference office) may continue on an experimental basis.

4 – Leaping rules on field goals and extra points were adjusted to mirror those on punting plays, where leaping over the frame of the body of an opponent is illegal.

5 – Penalty enforcement on field goals will now be treated the same as extra points, where unsportsmanlike calls on the defensive team can now be accepted on the ensuing kickoff.

1=Awful but get why they are doing it
2=Good rule
3=Good
4=Good
5=Good

I heard that there will be a runoff of 10 seconds for failed challenges. Thats good as well

[ALASKACAT]

http://footballscoop.com/news/ncaa-chan ... uchbakcks/

1 The NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight panel on Friday announced a significant change to how kickoffs are treated. Moving forward, kickoffs that land inside the field of play between the goal line and the 25-yard line can now be fair caught and taken to the 25 as touchbacks. The move essentially extends the end zone out 25 yards on kickoffs, a significant and obvious attempt to limit the number of runbacks.

Other rules changes:

2 – The 40-second play clock will now start before PAT or 2-point conversion attempts, and the 40-second clock will start more quickly after kickoffs.

3 – Collaborative replay reviews (such as in-stadium officials communicating with the conference office) may continue on an experimental basis.

4 – Leaping rules on field goals and extra points were adjusted to mirror those on punting plays, where leaping over the frame of the body of an opponent is illegal.

5 – Penalty enforcement on field goals will now be treated the same as extra points, where unsportsmanlike calls on the defensive team can now be accepted on the ensuing kickoff.

1=Awful but get why they are doing it
2=Good rule
3=Good
4=Good
5=Good

I heard that there will be a runoff of 10 seconds for failed challenges. Thats good as well

When does leaping come into play during punting plays? Leaping over the personal protectors to attempt to block a punt?

[PieceOfMeat]

That will eliminate almost all kick returns then

seriously at this point they should just remove the play from the game.

it's stupid to have it in the game and yet allow any kick inside the 25 to be fair-caught and taken to the 25.

Also, the speeding up when the clock starts is stupid too. How about if you wanna speed up the game, you take out a few fucking commercial breaks ncaa? Oh, that would eat into a little of your fuckload of cash? well can't have that then.

[azgreg]

[Sage&Silver]

That will eliminate almost all kick returns then

seriously at this point they should just remove the play from the game.

it's stupid to have it in the game and yet allow any kick inside the 25 to be fair-caught and taken to the 25.

Also, the speeding up when the clock starts is stupid too. How about if you wanna speed up the game, you take out a few fucking commercial breaks ncaa? Oh, that would eat into a little of your fuckload of cash? well can't have that then.

I assume they kept the kick in the game to preserve the on-side kick. The possibility of recovering a kick makes a late nine-point deficit not entirely hopeless.

[Spaceman Spiff]

That will eliminate almost all kick returns then

seriously at this point they should just remove the play from the game.

it's stupid to have it in the game and yet allow any kick inside the 25 to be fair-caught and taken to the 25.

Also, the speeding up when the clock starts is stupid too. How about if you wanna speed up the game, you take out a few fucking commercial breaks ncaa? Oh, that would eat into a little of your fuckload of cash? well can't have that then.

I assume they kept the kick in the game to preserve the on-side kick. The possibility of recovering a kick makes a late nine-point deficit not entirely hopeless.

Well, I can see teams still returning kicks. If you have a dangerous return man, he can easily average beyond the 25 as a starting position plus the occasional TD.

[azgreg]

[catgrad97]

Desert Swarm says what?!

[PieceOfMeat]

how business and professional, near-nfl standards even, the "amateur" ncaa is getting.

[ASUHATER!]

NCAA sure knows how to pick its battles

[TucsonClip]

F*ck off. Some ref threatened to give me an unsportsmanlike like penalty, in a freaking state playoff game, if I didnt pull my knee pads over my knees. Im also 6'5" and they dont exactly fit that great, not to mention... no... plus screw that ref. Screw the NCAA.

[Spaceman Spiff]

"The N.C.A.A. did not dispute that the University of North Carolina was guilty of running one of the worst academic fraud schemes in college sports history, involving fake classes that enabled dozens of athletes to gain and maintain their eligibility.

But there will be no penalties, the organization said, because no rules were broken.

In a ruling that caused head-scratching everywhere except Chapel Hill, the N.C.A.A. announced on Friday that it could not punish the university or its athletics program because the “paper” classes were not available exclusively to athletes. Other students at North Carolina had access to the fraudulent classes, too.

Noting that distinction, the panel that investigated the case “could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated N.C.A.A. academic rules,” the N.C.A.A. said in a statement."

Good to see the NCAA is still locked in on the stuff that matters.

[ANGCatFan]

Freshman can now play 4 games without burning their redshirt!

College athletes competing in Division I football can participate in up to four games in a season without using a season of competition, the Division I Council decided this week at its meeting in Indianapolis.

Division I student-athletes have five years to compete in up to four seasons of competition. The new exception allows football players to preserve a season of competition if, for example, injuries or other factors result in them competing in a small number of games.

[UAEebs86]

Is it any four games?

[Merkin]

Is it any four games?

Yes.