Like Bret pointed out, it’s a player safety issue. Glad the NCAA Rules Committee understood this issue more than the TV folks.
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Fighter of the Nightman
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Lol, who is keeping track of all of the rule changes we have led to over the years?? Off the top of my head...
- No more teams playing in their home arenas for NCAAT games after we got screwed vs. Kentucky in Lexington in the 1984 Elite Eight.
- Video replay introduced after we got screwed in our 2000 football game vs. Michigan.
- Video review enabled for out-of-bounds possession calls with under 2:00 left after we got screwed vs. Miami in the 2013 Second Round.
And I feel fairly positive I am forgetting another recent one, lol.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
And somewhere, Mark Jones is crying his eyes out . . .
It is also VERY subjective. How do you prove what is legit and not? Your solution at least punishes the player if it is faked or protects them if it is legit.
I would say they have to sit the rest of the series if the leave the field for an injury. Player safety.
In the Twitter thread, someone said "call it the Beamer rule" lmfao
RabidDawgClassic
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Clarification because this keeps getting spread and it’s incorrect: it was no more playing on home courts during the Regionals of the NCAA Tournament. Home court in the first two rounds was allowed for another five years.
Curbelo Fanboy
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This is the biggest issue. Kind of hard to assess "fakeness". My thought is to give the booth review guy authority to see replays & boot a guy if something egregious is going on. Often times the ref on the field doesn't notice the player "taking a dive" but the 25 cameras do seem to catch those things.
Curbelo Fanboy
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IIRC there was a Syracuse game that had some shenanigans in the Carrier Dome that was the death blow for home court games in the tourney. Somewhere around 88 or so maybe.
Fighter of the Nightman
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Thanks for the clarification, it was before my time and I figured they would have just fixed the issue all at once!
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Boricua Illini
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I would tend to agree, but could lead to really injured players to play through risking more serious injury for fear of being out for the rest of the series
Then leave that decision to the officials. It’s easier to recognize someone who’s actually hurt than someone who’s faking it.
I initially had this thought, but the more I think about it, the more I think this probably already happens and wouldn't make a difference overall. Players are always gonna play thru injuries, and rules aren't going to stop that. We see it all the time already with under a minute left. Players don't want to waste a team timeout by going down and don't want to force the 10-second runoff. There are ways to mitigate this within the rest of the game tho.
I think an addition to sitting out the rest of the drive could be if there's a media timeout in the middle of the series for one reason or another, a player who went out earlier can come back in. There are a million scenarios that could let a player back in in that case. And if your QB goes down with the game on the line, you can call a timeout to force a media timeout to get them back in the game. You may burn a timeout that could be used to stop the clock, but very few teams are going on a game-winning drive without their starting QB (Paddock is obviously an exception because he's just Him lol).
Excellent podcast and great to hear Bret talk about the off season and what Illini fans have to look forward to in the fall.
Either way, I think you’ll still see it on balls sailing well over the returners head through the end zone, letting the kick coverage team know the ball is not going to be returned.
What you won’t see is somebody using the T-bar and then actually fielding the kick…aka exactly what SC did.
pruman91
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That’s gotta be ThaKid!
If the player is hurt, he should stay out of the game for at least the rest of the series to ensure he is okay before he goes back in
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