Illini Football 2023

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Dkayak

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willillini said:
While at the games, the only time that seems wasted are the tv timeouts. i would consider
the Nascar, golf, hockey? split screen commercials for these as keep the game moving. Baseball
has to do it and it seems a natural for it. if you cut 5-10 minutes out of halftime like an NFL game,
might trim 20 minutes out of a game.
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How does cutting 5-10 minutes from halftime trim more than 5-10 minutes from the event? Personally, I find halftime is already nearly inadequate compared to concession and restroom capacity.

Maybe you’re referring the televised length? If you shorten what’s broadcast vs the event, it’s no longer a live broadcast.
 
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BZuppke

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For me I just don’t want less football and they’ve tinkered enough with a tuning clock. Maybe if these teams stopped passing so much the clock would keep running 🤪
 
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ChiefGritty

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Chicago, IL
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superfan said:
Likewise. I don't get the impulse to shorten games. Is this because people are parroting something they heard on sports radio or elsewhere? Why would anyone be a hurry to get a college football game over sooner? Shortening the Marching Illini so we can shave a few minutes from the overall experience? Can I please have this one source of joy for several Saturdays every autumn without people f*&^ing with the product?
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I'm an apex college football sicko and I will take as much of it as there is available, but the different clock rules from the NFL really do add quite a bit of time to the game. And I think a big reason there's focus on it is that college games so often spill over their TV window, where the networks want reliability.

The counterargument is that I do think the clock stopping on a first down makes crazy topsy-turvy endings more likely in college than the NFL since you need so little actual clock time to march down the field.

Replay is a much, much bigger problem with football college and pro than anything to do with the clock rules anyway.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

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The Galloping Ghost said:
It's a wild time to be an Illini fan. We're heading into spring practice and I'm thankful for the stability of our football program after an up-and-down basketball season.
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I don't remember the last time I thought, "Oh well, I'm really excited for football!" after a loss in March Madness. This is possibly the first time ever. Even in other years where I was optimistic about football coming up, we either (A) didn't make the Tournament so I was checked out of hoops long ago or (B) my optimism for the next season was way higher than for football

2022: Sucked we lost to Houston, but I liked the RJ/CoHawk/Goode pieces, and football was going to be a mystery.
2021: Was gut punched we lost to Loyola and was excited for Bret, but we were such a mystery and basketball was still going to be way better as long as Kofi returned.
--- No NCAA Tournaments ---
2013: The close loss to Miami (FL) REALLY had me believing Groce had this thing humming ... I was so encouraged. Meanwhile, it was a typical "we'll see what happens" attitude toward football.
2011: Maybe this one was close? 2011 really sucked out my remaining enthusiasm for Weber, but I also wasn't super optimistic for football, either.
2009: This is probably the best candidate (I remember us all thinking 2009 could be a true bounce-back season for football), but I also fully bought back into Weber with our surprisingly good 2009 season and good recruiting classes coming in.
2007: I was still under the spell of 2005, and I didn't follow recruiting enough to think our (future Rose Bowl) football team would be anything special
2006 or Before: Not even close.

It's a weird feeling and I wish our hoops team had done better, but I CAN'T say I hate it, haha.
 
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willillini

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Dkayak said:
How does cutting 5-10 minutes from halftime trim more than 5-10 minutes from the event? Personally, I find halftime is already nearly inadequate compared to concession and restroom capacity.

Maybe you’re referring the televised length? If you shorten what’s broadcast vs the event, it’s no longer a live broadcast.
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tv timeouts are extensive (as Ive said before, split screen game and commercial is used in other sports) There's also 5 minutes or more after the band is done to speed things up. play reviews need to be in the booth instead of hauling equipment out and having officials review on the field. those things would save 15 minutes easy.
 
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