http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-ncaa-ruleschanges&prov=ap&type=lgns


Back to the old clock rules with slight modifications. This is great news.

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"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Last season, the NCAA wanted to speed up football games. Next season, it wants more plays. On Thursday, the rules oversight panel approved two major timing changes that would revert the rules to what they were in 2005 -- stopping the clock on possession changes and not starting it on kickoffs until the receiving team touches the ball. Some coaches complained the 2006 changes, which resulted in about 14 fewer plays per game in Division I-A, had altered the game too much. Others said it prevented teams from rallying late in games. In February, the football rules committee recommended going to back to the old system. After meeting with the American Football Coaches Association in March, the oversight panel agreed. Grant Teaff, executive director of the AFCA, was overjoyed with the changes. "It made me uncomfortable to watch it last year," Teaff said. "It put a different slant on everything, and it almost seemed to put everything in reverse. If you, as an offense, don't have the right or opportunity to manage the clock, it's not a good rule." Last year's rules changes reduced game times by an average of about 14 minutes, meeting a goal the committee had set. On the field, though, there were problems. Trailing teams often sprinted onto the field after a punt, kickoff or turnover late in games to preserve precious time, while teams holding the lead delayed getting onto the field because they could use 25 seconds without running a play. Another problem occurred on kickoffs. Since the clock started when the kicker touched the ball, some teams intentionally ran offsides to expend more time. "I don't think that's what the committee really intended," said Ty Halpin, a spokesman for the oversight panel. "That's a rule the committee regretted making." While, this year's changes likely mean games will again be longer, the panel approved several other measures intended to help keep them closer to 3 hours than 3 1/2 . Kickoffs will be made from the 30-yard line, like in the NFL, instead of the 35. That, Halpin said, should ensure more returns and shorter stoppages. "It should create more opportunities for what the committee feels is one of the most exciting plays in a game, and we're not really sure, but it may increase scoring, too," he said. After media timeouts during televised games, teams will have less time to run plays. Previously, teams had a 25-second play clock; now it will be 15 seconds. Halpin said it could prevent the long stoppages when teams are merely simply trying to save time. One of the most time-consuming procedures, replay reviews, will not change. The football rules committee withdrew its proposal to impose a 2-minute limit, in part, because of the potential for technical difficulties. The committee will also begin considering a play clock that alternates between 40 seconds and 25 seconds, depending on whether the clock has stopped. The NFL uses that system, and the committee thinks it could speed up games. For now, Teaff is pleased with the changes designed to give athletes more playing time. "The general point was coming up with a way to shorten games without affecting student-athletes," Teaff said. "That's what happened last year." "

[Edited on April 12, 2007 at 9:20 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2007 9:18:42 PM

This is good. Remember the Penn State @ Wisconsin game where Wisconsin just kept purposefully going offside on a kickoff to run the clock off before half-time?

4/12/2007 9:23:07 PM

its about time, good to see theyre not above admitting they suck

4/12/2007 9:24:44 PM

Thank God. Starting the clock on kickoffs ruined those final possession comebacks. If they want to shorten games take the TV timeouts when there is an official game timeout. I hate TV timeouts after kickoffs!

[Edited on April 12, 2007 at 9:25 PM. Reason : efiybvfryt]

4/12/2007 9:24:44 PM

They're not going to do something that will mean fewer commercials. I agree that the TV timeouts before kickoffs is retarded, but it wont change. I do think there should be some kind of limit on it though, cause i remember a bunch of times last year when both teams were ready to come back on the field and they had to wait for over 2 minutes for that little fag to give them the signal to come back on. I HATED that shit.

4/12/2007 9:29:54 PM

thank god. If you want to shorten the game, have less commercials.

4/12/2007 9:31:58 PM

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"This is good. Remember the Penn State @ Wisconsin game where Wisconsin just kept purposefully going offside on a kickoff to run the clock off before half-time?"

that was awesome. only good thing to have come for the new (now old) rules

4/12/2007 9:37:01 PM

wasn't this announced a really long time ago?


edit: yeah

http://www.statefansnation.com/index.php/archives/2007/02/15/ncaa-revokes-moronic-clock-rules/



[Edited on April 12, 2007 at 10:15 PM. Reason : oh wait i guess this means it was fully approved or something?]

4/12/2007 10:02:22 PM

excellent news!

4/12/2007 10:15:53 PM

I didn't know they were moving the kick-off back to the NFL spot. That's kinda sweet.

4/12/2007 10:20:09 PM

me like.

4/12/2007 10:33:04 PM

ncsuftw1...I didnt check on it cause the article is dated today, but I remember hearing something about it a while back. Oh well here it is again...its certianly good news.

4/12/2007 10:47:59 PM

yeah i think this means it was formally approved whereas the ones in that article i linked were simply proposed and assumed that it would be approved

4/12/2007 10:53:20 PM

yeah there was a thread on this a while ago but good luck finding it using the search feature...

4/12/2007 11:15:12 PM

hey fag, maybe you didnt read the date on the article i posted, or read that I've already been over that

4/12/2007 11:21:43 PM

this is great news, that was my biggest bitch, the end of games got boring

4/12/2007 11:41:33 PM

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"I didn't know they were moving the kick-off back to the NFL spot. That's kinda sweet."

It would be....if we still had John Deraney.

4/12/2007 11:44:12 PM

LIKE OMG SO MANY GAMES ARE GOING TO BE DECIDED BY THIS CHANGE MUST REWRITE ALL MY GAME PREDICTION ALGORITHMS

4/13/2007 1:53:49 AM

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"its about time, good to see theyre not above admitting they suck"

If they weren't above admitting that then they would have gone back on that decision right after everyone told them how stupid it was back on day one.

4/13/2007 8:10:12 AM

can't change the rules mid season, that'd just cause too much confusion, and lord knows we don't want the refs any more confused then they already are...

it's a good change though, kind of a "it wasn't broken, why'd you try to fix it" situation... but at least the rules committee can admit when it makes mistakes and change things back... it's one of those nice little things about college football...

[Edited on April 13, 2007 at 9:16 AM. Reason : improper capitalization]

4/13/2007 9:16:20 AM

this is a good thing.

ticket prices go up while amount of football was going down. terrible.

4/13/2007 9:26:51 AM

^^I assumed the change was announced before the season started and there was an ample window between the time they announced the new rule and the start of the season.

4/13/2007 9:32:29 AM

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"After media timeouts during televised games, teams will have less time to run plays. Previously, teams had a 25-second play clock; now it will be 15 seconds."

We're screwed. How many times did we get a damn delay of game penalty after coming back from a timeout!!!! oh wait that may have been mazzone

4/13/2007 9:52:20 AM

is derainey going pro?

4/13/2007 10:51:06 AM

^^^ i think i misinterpreted what you meant by "day one"... i thought you meant the first day of the season, not right after when they announced the rule change

4/13/2007 1:13:41 PM

^^JD was a senior.

And he could make a team probably as a kicker or a punter.

4/13/2007 3:15:24 PM