NCAA Rules Committee proposes ejections for targeting players

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So apparently now not only will these helmet to helmet hits draw the ridiculous 15 yard penalties we've seen over the past few years, but will also result in immediate ejections. I bet receivers around the country are going to be licking their chops knowing they can now run consequence free across the middle of the field because even the slightest miscalculation from a defender will have him tossed from the game. So long defense, it's been nice knowing you. I hope everyone enjoys 49-45 type games, because we're going to be seeing a lot more of them.

NCAA rules committee recommends ejections for targeting defenseless players - NCAA Football - Sporting News
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
So apparently now not only will these helmet to helmet hits draw the ridiculous 15 yard penalties we've seen over the past few years, but will also result in immediate ejections. I bet receivers around the country are going to be licking their chops knowing they can now run consequence free across the middle of the field because even the slightest miscalculation from a defender will have him tossed from the game. So long defense, it's been nice knowing you. I hope everyone enjoys 49-45 type games, because we're going to be seeing a lot more of them.

NCAA rules committee recommends ejections for targeting defenseless players - NCAA Football - Sporting News
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Dramatic much?
 
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ShowMeVol said:
Dramatic much?
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Explain to me how a defender can effectively cover a receiver when at all times in the back of his mind he knows that if he accidentally hits his man in the head he'll be thrown out of the game. At the speed the game is played the margin between aiming for a guys shoulder pads and accidentally making contact with the helmet is minuscule.
 
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This has been coming for a while now. To even the playing field there oughta to be an unsportsmanlike penalty for any offensive player that jumps to catch a pass.
 
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MSCE09 said:
This has been coming for a while now. To even the playing field there oughta to be an unsportsmanlike penalty for any offensive player that jumps to catch a pass.
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There's just no way defenses can compete with the way the current rules are going. You haven't been able to hit QB's for years, and now they're making it so you can't hit receivers either. At the rate we've been seeing personal foul penalties called in the past couple years, with this rule in place we're going to be looking at 3-5 ejections per game. What team can survive having that many of it's DB's ejected? Teams are going to have to adjust their rosters and start carrying twice the amount of CB's and safety's because they' know they're almost certainly going to lose some of them over the course of the game.
 
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I think it would be a good thing for our team.....heck we might even win some games because of it. It's not like we tackle anyway ?
 
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I understand the goal is to protect the players. No one wants to see the players hurt. However, it is a game of contact and there is risk involved. The players know this and are willing to accept that risk. It has always been that way.
 
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LibertyVol said:
I understand the goal is to protect the players. No one wants to see the players hurt. However, it is a game of contact and there is risk involved. The players know this and are willing to accept that risk. It has always been that way.
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This is what I can't understand. For decades both players and fans have been able to make their peace with players being paralyzed and never being able to move a muscle in their body for the rest of their life. However, somehow we can't make the same peace with some players getting concussions, a fate that is IMO infinitely less catastrophic that paralyzation.

This is what leads me to believe that none of this really has anything to do with actual player safety and everything to do with looking good before the courts as they try to decide the outcome of lawsuits filed by overly litigious players who are upset about suffering some bad side effects of playing a game that all along they knew was dangerous.
 
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last I checked this was a full contact sport. I can see protecting a qb because it has been abused for years going after qb just to take him out of game but if someone has the ball then they should expect to get blasted.

if people don't like it go watch baseball
 
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In my mind it's not so much about the fact that it's a full contact game, it's that the NCAA wants to take a call that's purely judgmental and kick players out of games because of it. That's ridiculous.
 
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maybe bama will lose a ton of defensive players this fall in our game against em the way to beat em is just throw over the middle and watch them red elephants run to the locker room and saban start crying for a happy meal he can't reach. cause bammers suplex and go for the head alot more than most besides fla. uga would be 3rd.
 
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and another thing if our players are cheated and tossed for non helmet to helmet hits imo they should tackle the referee on their way out. might as well especially if we got a easier game the next week. though that last statement is very unlikely as of right now.
 
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Still think this will be called according to the officials within a certain league. I think SEC ball shouldn't change much but conferences such as the Big 10 or so will be much worse about this.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
So apparently now not only will these helmet to helmet hits draw the ridiculous 15 yard penalties we've seen over the past few years, but will also result in immediate ejections. I bet receivers around the country are going to be licking their chops knowing they can now run consequence free across the middle of the field because even the slightest miscalculation from a defender will have him tossed from the game. So long defense, it's been nice knowing you. I hope everyone enjoys 49-45 type games, because we're going to be seeing a lot more of them.

NCAA rules committee recommends ejections for targeting defenseless players - NCAA Football - Sporting News
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Well we saw a lot of 49-45 games last year. Guess the Sunseri defense was just a year ahead of itself, huh?
 
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1982Alum said:
Well we saw a lot of 49-45 games last year. Guess the Sunseri defense was just a year ahead of itself, huh?
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It's just going to become more and more of a theme within football in general. The powers that be have been making an effort to legislate defense out of the game for the past 10 years or so. I suppose this is just the next logical step.
 
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govols105 said:
maybe bama will lose a ton of defensive players this fall in our game against em the way to beat em is just throw over the middle and watch them red elephants run to the locker room and saban start crying for a happy meal he can't reach. cause bammers suplex and go for the head alot more than most besides fla. uga would be 3rd.
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No. You have it wrong. None of the Bama players will ever get thrown out. I would almost guarantee that when they start counting ejections Bama will have the fewest in the league.
 
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LibertyVol said:
No. You have it wrong. None of the Bama players will ever get thrown out. I would almost guarantee that when they start counting ejections Bama will have the fewest in the league.
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Exactly. Just like every other rule it will be selectively enforced.
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