Rules Committee Recommends Helmet Communication, Two-Minute Warning for CFB
Wow! I wonder where they got THAT idea?
The NCAA's Rules Committee has recommended several big changes for 2024, most notably helmet communications to one player on the field and a two-minute warning. They're also going to let teams use iPads/tablets on the sidelines.
Stallions has truly left his mark on our beloved sport. And he fell on his sword like a noble Michigan fan.
The internally developed protocol for encoding UM coms needs to be named Stalions 1.0, etc.
(Yes I understand that it's not how it works in the NFL and idk anything about encoding)
Stallions may have left his mark on the college sport, but as far as I'm concerned, he is not a noble Michigan fan. To me, he's either:
1) Blindly incompetent, in that he didn't know that what he was doing was wrong, could possibly be construed as wrong, or didn't think to ask anyone to be sure. Or:
2) He did know that what he was doing was wrong, outside the lines, or in a grey area, and he decided to do it anyway. Which would make him an arrogant, irresponsible narcissist.
I can't stop Stallions from being a Michigan fan, and I don't wish ill on him personally, but I'd be okay with him disappearing into the ether to never be heard from again. He almost single-handedly ruined Michigan's national title season, and the fact that he defrauded Blake Corum by signing his name as being a co-business owner with him was the final nail in the coffin for me.
F**k Conner Stallions. He's going to wake up one day, realize his fifteen minutes of fame are over, no one cares to get his stupid Cameo videos, and the only thing he's going to be remembered for is almost destroying the entire collective legacy of Team 144.
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Also, apologies if I'm not picking up on any potential sarcasm over the "noble Michigan fan" comment. I just freaking hate the guy. He's not a martyr. He's not a noble steward of this program. He's an idiot, and he has no business being associated with this program in any capacity, officially or otherwise, ever again.
we should make him film himself eating a lemon to atone
No, he would need to eat a piece of shit that contained a lemon that Thamel ate.
He knew. Of course he knew — that's why he used the fake names. He may not have known the extent to which it would all blow up, but he damned sure was trying to be sly.
I don't actually wish him ill. He is a young guy who was trying to get ahead, trying to impress his bosses, trying to be creative and get a leg up on the competition. We tend to approve of that in this country, most of the time. I doubt he self-identifies as a bad guy, and personally, I think young people make a lot of mistakes — I hope he learns from this one and takes those lessons with him going forward.
But ... yeah, he knew what he was doing was against the rules, obviously, and this would have a much more enjoyable season, for me, had he just stuck to doing his damned job.
I don’t care that he was “just trying to get ahead” or that he probably “doesn’t identify as a bad guy.” You can still get ahead in life and not break rules in the process. And he caused a world of hurt and distractions that this program frankly didn’t need.
Fact is what he did was against the rules. You can certainly argue that the rule itself is stupid and shouldn’t be a rule. Fine. But until it’s changed, it’s a rule. And he broke it. Knowingly. So yeah, fuck him.
Michigan was already a program under the microscope for everything it did, and he either lacked the foresight to see that what he was doing would cause a world of problems, or he did see it, and he just didn’t care. Or he thought he was the smartest guy in the room and could outsmart everyone in the process.
And all of this is before him defrauding Blake Corum. Which honestly should be a dealbreaker for anyone who is still left defending this piece of trash.
Fuck. Conner. Stallions.
The fact that he envisioned himself running the Michigan Football program just about says it all
OR he is going to be hired by the NCAA as a Frank Abagnale-type advisor and show how he did it to make strengthen the protocols.
But think about a scenario where Stallions wasn't caught. Would the team have been brought together in the same way and coalesced like they did? Was their response to adversity the push that got them over the top? Hard to know for sure, but it's possible that if this hadn't gone down we wouldn't be national champions.
Or, someone in the program did know what he was doing and either approved it or gave him tacit approval with a "don't get caught" winky winky. No matter which scenario, it was a mole hill turned into a mountain to act out a mob vendetta against the arrogant University of Michigan. How'd that work out for you fellas? Ryan? Tony?
I get pushing the envelope in a gray area but if he was going to do that, at least do a little something to cover your tracks a little bit more than what he did. At least give some credible thread to plausible deniability. The showing up on the Central Michigan sidelines, dressed as a CMU coach was way over the line. That falls directly into cheating and there is no excuse for that.
I know this is sarcasm, but I genuinely hope we never see or hear from that guy again.
He fell on his sword because he went rogue and hatched a ridiculous scheme that he probably knew is against the rules but provided no discernible advantage to the team on or off the field. It only caused everyone headaches and bad publicity. Oh, and he tried to profit from Blake Corum's name without his consent. And those are just the shenanigans of his that we know about.
So yeah, that guy can fuck off.
Without Stallions, perhaps the team doesn't become galvanized quite enough, and lose to OSU, Bama, or Wash. We will never know.
Disagree, the 2023 team was not going to denied. They didn’t a pseudo-scandal to motivate themselves. There’s no possible way the distractions/drama/loss of our head coach was net-beneficial.
How will Ryan Day give all of our signs to our opponents?
I wonder where they got THAT idea?
The 20th century?
Now let's not bring Hitler into this.
Boom! Godwin'd.
Yes, let's leave that to the professionals
I was about to make a snarky comment like "Hitler pioneered helmet communications?" but then I remembered the Panzer corps under Heinz Guderian in WWII actually did pioneer the use of helmet radios on the commanders so they could communicate and coordinate with the tanks in the field*. It gave them a huge coordination advantage over the Polish commanders who were standing on top of their moving tank with giant square placards of Alf, a golden retriever, Batman logo, and a pierogi.
I kid, Polish tank battalion. I kid.
*Cite: Battistelli, Pier (2011). Heinz Guderian: Leadership, Strategy, Conflict. United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing Ltd. at p14
So instead of stopping the clock for the chains we're getting a 2 min warning? The 2 min warning is fine but it has always felt so arbitrary. Stopping the clock for chains made sense to me, even if its effect in the first 2/3 of each half are minimal. It still remains for late in each half, right? Why the 2 min warning then? I don't really care so I'll stop whining and not be such an old man about this.
Justification for two more commercial breaks.
If it spares the back to back media timeout bull shit, I'm all for it. That seems to be the impetus, but if it creates some worse unintended consequence ...
I saw that line but don't know what it means - they're getting rid of TD-commercial-KO-commercial? I doubt it, right?
Oopps. Double post and I haven't even started the Friday drinking ...
They would still be stopping the clock after 1st downs in the final 2 mins of each half.
You can't show commercials when the chains are moved, but you can squeeze in 5,6,7,8 during a 2 minute warning.
This would have saved Harbaugh 3 games last year, not to mention all the safety for the players.
Fuck the rules committee. Always a day late and a dollar short. To be clear a do approve the changes.
Amazingly, his bogus punishments galvanized the team, and made for a unique and historic season will likely never be repeated
It ended up making the season more epic to me. JJ threw a dime to Wilson against OSU because of film study - but still they whine. Every time I see those whines I think of how soft and entitled their fanbase, program and AD has become. Their last trip to Indy this league changed its rules to prop them up. Then it changed its rules again to prop them up for their last CFP win. Meanwhile, the league changed its rules to hold us back and we had the best Big Ten season in 55 years at least.
It would be epic either way, but the way it went down made it even more.
That reminds me - I was re-listening to this episode of the Forever Saturday podcast (a Michigan podcast), and I really treasured the hostess' breakdown of the Top 7 Softest Things about OSU (starts at about the 12:20 mark though the whole ep is a fun listen)
I don't know what "soft" means, for fans. What fans don't complain when they lose to their rivals? We sure don't whine about the damned spot in 2016, no sirree! Michigan fans never complain about close calls going against them, or search for excuses ("the NCAA hates us!") when things don't go our way.
Whining that the other side cheated when you lose in close competitions, it turns out, is the American way.
Sure. But when your AD and Coaches are convincing the league commissioner to make it harder for your opponents, less than 3 years removed from convincing everyone to make it EASIER for yourself (and honestly they weren't wrong on the latter) - yea I feel comfortable saying that's whining. And when you still lose, it does make us look tougher. And since they already are sensitive to being called soft after Gattis said it in '21, that's the word choice I'm using for them.
Gloating over your defeated rivals whom you beat the heck out of twice and then have one close competition with is also, it turns out, the American way. And probably more universal than that too.
Be right back, going to go grab a few stocks in whatever company is the primary producer for NFL helmet comms.
Radio Shack
Can you pick up three extra sets of helmet communication units when you buy the stock? My buddies and I want to listen in.
Pretty soon the rules will be identical to the NFL.
I honestly hope they don’t go with the NFL’s two-feet rule for catches—but I think it’s just a matter of time before they do.
I love the one-foot rule in college, though.
They shouldn't. The one-foot-in rule is more consistent with the rest of the rules for when a catch is or is not in-bounds.
I for one would be happy if they adopted the NFL’s down by contact rule.
This is a semi-professional sport at this point.. I'm not saying it's a bad thing necessarily but it's a different thing. I wish they'd just drop all pretenses and call it what it is..
NFLite
NFL G league
Unconfirmed reports also indicate that the NCAA will now allow a forward pass.
Great - another commercial break. Is there any reason for that other than the networks to make more money?
Helmet communication takes some of the Cold War intrigue out of stealing signs. Now, we will just need to have someone stand on the sideline trouserless, occasionally making a bizarre hand gesture, and see if the other team becomes interested in what that person is trying to communicate.
NFL 2.0
We all know that this is primarily being done for the safety of Michigan State's football players.
welcome to the modern world