Slightly OT: What's the one in-game rule change that you would make?
College football is considering getting rid of the clock stoppage after first downs.
The XFL has an interesting kickoff situation.
Banning the charge seems to be gaining momentum after the Ja and Giannis injuries this past weekend. I hope that they don't get rid of it altogether. They need to make sure you only get a charge if the defender is actually playing defense.
Taking the charge rule is the most Duke play I can think of. Shane Battier damn near became an all-American by stepping in front of people. Now it has become a staple of defense. The game rewards players for running to a spot with no intention of actually playing defense.
I just wish they would call traveling 🤷
Make the forward pass illegal. These shenanigans have gone on long enough.
You are so right, only 3 things can happen when you pass, and 2 of them are BAD!
You win. Hats off to you.
Challenges/reviews last one minute at the maximum, in every sport. If you can't find enough to change the play in one minute, it stands as called.
make it 15 seconds like the pitch clock
Love this. An addendum to it would be that any time-out within 1 minute of the end / start of a quarter is an automatic 30-second T.O. (so no 3 minute commercial break, followed by another 3 minute commercial break, followed by another 3 minute commercial break, and so on...)
Shoot the guy in the red hat the first time he sets foot on the field.
And the second time if he gets back up.
Dick.
Any timeout within min of the under 16, 8, 4 TO will become said TO instead of another commercial at the under 16, 8, 4 stoppage
Yes, maybe shorter. Enough of this Zapruder film stuff. These guys need to look up the word "irrefutable"
I think that if they stop letting Craig James Kill 5 Hookers the sport would get better
Remember the 5
And don’t let me mention Mark May while at Pitt…
"allegedly"
No drugs or alcohol for the refs before and during the game. The refs should be sober during the game.
3 minute clock for video review.
If it takes more than 3 minutes to make a determination, then it's inconclusive.
I don't get how they come back from these 5-6 minute reviews, and then the original call stands.
April 19th, 2023 at 11:01 AM ^
Other than this, I wouldn’t change anything. Yeah I think the refs don’t make the correct calls but most of the rules are fine. The NCAA trying to shorten the actual games with no clock stoppage on first down to preserve their commercial time is an absolute joke. Less commercials, leave the game itself as is.
The consequence of banning the charge is that you’d then just see offensive players plow towards the hoop recklessly over and over again since there’s be no recourse. I don’t see how this makes the game safer
Yup. There's not really a defense for Giannis driving other than establishing position so he can't have that alley to plow through. Take away the charge, and people will complain about the endless foul shots that guys like Giannis or Embiid will be able to draw.
April 19th, 2023 at 10:46 AM ^
The proposal isn't to ban all charges, it's to get rid of the practice of "drawing charges" by help defenders. That's the dangerous play because it almost always involves undercutting someone in the air (as happened in both the Ja and Giannis injuries) and IMO it's not really a basketball play, because it's not contesting the shot but just getting in front of a player and falling down. You'd still have the normal charging calls involving on-ball defenders, just not the slide in charges.
Playing actual defense and getting trucked by an out-of-control offensive player? Charge.
Standing with you arms at your side and taking a sac to the face while an offensive player dunks and hoping the ref bails you out? Block.
Even dipshit refs can distinguish between actual defense and lamely taking a sac to the face.
I don't get the reasoning behind this. Is it just that you want more dunks? Why isn't anticipating a drive and establishing position defense? Watching a bunch of oles would get old.
For me it's because the "establishing position" has become a mockery of what taking a charge used to mean. Swooping in while an offensive player has already picked up dribble and is near jumping towards the hoop and getting rewarded for "defense" sucks. In the college game, especially out beloved Big10, why are we not rewarding offense more and not crummy Wisconsin-style "defense".
I understand points above about defense still being a valuable component of the game and the need to somewhat inhibit non-stop bullrushing of the lane. But what the block/charge has become really irks me (again, this is mostly for the college game. I don't watch enough NBA to have an overall opinion).
You know what's funny? I actually would call more offensive fouls. I hate having offensive players pump fake, then, when they get the defensive players in the air, jump into them. I hate blocks on defenders who clearly have position established but because their "feet are moving" nonetheless can't get the call. I hate rewarding offensive players who sense contact and then throw up the ball to make it a shooting foul. Etc.
Not to mention ... I don't understand why basketball is the only sport where, if you're fouled while scoring, you not only get to keep the score, you get an opportunity at an *additional* score. Can you imagine in football, if there's a call of defensive pass interference or offsides on a TD pass, the scoring team gets to attempt a field goal as well? Or ... in hockey, if you score on a breakaway despite the defense's attempt to disrupt it, you also get a chance at a penalty shot?
It's bizarre. The defense is already punished by having the guy get the foul and the offense has scored. I've always wanted to check what the final score would be of games if you removed the "and one" free-throws.
Not to mention ... the game would move so much faster.
April 19th, 2023 at 11:25 AM ^
I would argue that a player in the act of shooting who gets fouled should not only get the points for the made shot but also get the standard free throw opportunities as well. 1-1 or 2 according to the total team foul situation. The making of the shot and the foul are two separate actions during play.
April 18th, 2023 at 10:47 PM ^
There would still be offensive fouls. You wouldn’t be able to lower your shoulder and plow into the defender. It would eliminate the help defender jumping in late and undercutting the player in the hopes of drawing a foul. Frankly it’s a shitty play in the first place — why get credit for running in front of someone instead of trying to actually play defense — and is rarely called correctly. Just get rid of it.
in the NBA I wish they would call the moving screens that they have just chosen to ignore. You can practically bear hug the defender and carry him down the court and the refs won’t blow the whistle.
in NBA and college they need to stop calling “non-natural” motion fouls in the defense.if you initiate contact by moving away from the rim, purposely/unnaturally jumping into an airborne defender on a shot or kicking your leg out that should be a no call or an offensive foul every time.
Allow excessive touchdown celebrations. They've earned it.
One of the best bits they did.
I love the idea of replacing kickoffs with an offensive down, 4th and 15 at your own 35 yard line. You can punt or go for it. I think a 4th and 15 would be converted more often than an onside kick, leading to more exciting multi-score comebacks in the last minutes.
Also, I think the alignment rules can be simplified without a material impact on the game. If Nebraska wants to cover up receivers, let them do it since the refs rarely seem to call it correctly anyway. Make the 5 OL ineligible, and everyone else eligible, whether lined up on the LOS or not.
Make the 5 OL ineligible, and everyone else eligible, whether lined up on the LOS or not.
Sounds reasonable. We just need a way to quickly and easily identify who the 5 OLinemen are...
By number and/or make those eligible (or ineligible, say on special teams) wear a vest or cap (covering like some teams do in practice) to identify them as such.
Shane Battier was an All-American you crazy asshat.
you should be able to drop kick the football through the uprights for 2 pts OR for a completed pass or interception on any down from any position on the field. I'd call it the moody rule.
The intent to deceive call!?
I know hockey purists will hate me but I would like to see the goals made two inches wider and an inch higher.
So often you see teams skate circles around another team only to lose to a hot goalie. Hockey goals are exciting and it would be fun to see high scoring games and big comebacks.
I know all the records and history would never be the same but I think the games would be fun.
Same with every hole in golf ( 2 inches wider)...or just count each putt as a half stroke. "Putting is not golf."
Craig Ellison
That's like saying taking a charge isn't playing defense. What makes games games is their arcane and often arbitrary rules. That doesn't mean tweaking them can't be fun, too. But--yes--taking a charge is defense, and it's neat because--at some cost to their nads--smaller players can gain position and stop points being scored. Likewise, putting--while often perfunctory--brings incredible drama to the close of many close golf matches.
As a medium handicapper I love this rule. Maybe the elusive eagle would finally happen.
I have made two shots over 125 yards before. Once for par and once for bogey.
Avatar fits.
Compare the equipment between these images. It's not just the players that have gotten larger. Why change the goal size first?
Size of players has ballooned in all sports. 300 lb OL used to be exceedingly rare in the NFL.
To be fair, the size and gear of all skaters has changed a lot, too. With the composite sticks and stronger players, shots are coming in way faster than they used to. It does offset the change in goalie size/gear a bit. Also, with slapshots approaching 100MPH (and occasionally more), goalies do need a little more bulky gear than they used to in order to protect them.
Remove the goalies completely. No players - offense or defense - allowed within a 15' arc of the goal. Shrink the goal to a 24" x 18" rectangle.
They'll just let the goalies wear bigger pads. They let the goalie pads get out of control.
Award a point when a running back successfully hurdles a defender.
not sure I like the rule idea too much but I like 3 things about this picture. A. haskins grip on the ball. B. corny's eyes on the ball and his inquisitive playful expression. C. No. 26's decision to go ahead and look for his jock.
That fool has a name. It's Cameron Brown. I think.
We should have T Shirt with a list of all the hurdle victims names and dates on the back and that picture on the front.