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Didn't mean to interrupt Vansdale's blog here, but ...





NCAA considers taking away points for excessive celebration....



Let's clean up the fun in college football




I completely agree with Ted Miller's sentiments.

Let's not discuss the real issues in College football like poor officiating, unbalanced OOC scheduling or a playoff system. Penalizing celebration is such a pressing issue !

Finally, if this rule was in place, how would Bellotti feel if all 3 of his players were ejected after they speared Riley ?

"We believe, in some cases, that players must be penalized more severely when the contact is clearly flagrant and dangerous," Bellotti said.

Oh really ? Let's see how long Blount is out...




Miller pretty much nails it. I mean, there's just nothing more to say, is there ?









Oh yeah, it was a little rainy here today.


Parking lot of the Marin Civic Center and a view of the front coming in over Mt. Tam









Blueblood

"Just imagine: In next year's national championship game, USC safety Taylor Mays returns a fourth-quarter Tim Tebow interception 103 yards for a touchdown with 10 seconds left on the clock ..."

Yes, let's imagine...

Ahhhh...

...nice. Good stuff.

"... only the points get taken off the board because Mays raised his hands in celebration on the 10-yard line and then dove into the end zone.

The Gators repeat!"

Fuck...that!



The guy's right though. This is getting to be absurd. What, was the NCAA just giddy over the reaction to last year's Washington-BYU game? They want more of that?

Fucking stupid. Fix what's broken, NCAA. Quit attempting to look proactive about the truly meaningless shit.

have we figured out who owns the .m2 troll?

M Club wrote:have we figured out who owns the .m2 troll?

We have.

but.... have "we" figured out why you would try and pull off a Nigerian money scam with board members here ???





the truth is waiting...








Blueblood

i did it so you'd call me the captain again and post another youtube video.

You want better officiating here are a couple of suggestions from an insider.

Move away from conference officials. The Pac 10 and SEC need to get out of the way and allow the Big 11 and Big XII to combine their officiating staffs. This would help to standardize calls across a larger region. Officials wouldn't see the same teams more than once in a season.

Make officials employees. Right now officials are part time contractors. They are allowed to work one game per 7 days and in the top conferences are paid between $1,350 and $1,600 per game plus expenses. While this may sound like a lot of money when looked at on a per game basis, it doesn't when you add up all the hours required year round. Make the officials employees and you can have more expected of them.

Left Seater wrote:You want better officiating here are a couple of suggestions from an insider.

Move away from conference officials. The Pac 10 and SEC need to get out of the way and allow the Big 11 and Big XII to combine their officiating staffs. This would help to standardize calls across a larger region. Officials wouldn't see the same teams more than once in a season.

Make officials employees. Right now officials are part time contractors. They are allowed to work one game per 7 days and in the top conferences are paid between $1,350 and $1,600 per game plus expenses. While this may sound like a lot of money when looked at on a per game basis, it doesn't when you add up all the hours required year round. Make the officials employees and you can have more expected of them.

I agree with you lefty... As much revenue that is taken in by the sport and the hours you guys oput in you are greatly underpaid.

Will never happen with officials being full time employees. No matter how much the NCAA is bringing in, they would never foot the bill for the benefits required to be a full time employee. After that, basketball refs, baseball umpires, softball, volleyball, etc. Will never happen. And it shouldn't.

I agree with you Indy. It will never happen. So then everyone has to be content with minimally paid volunteers for officials.

Gentlemen, nothing that makes sense will ever happen.

Left Seater wrote:I agree with you Indy. It will never happen. So then everyone has to be content with minimally paid volunteers for officials.

Exactly. And officials are humans, not robots. As humans, they will make mistakes. Even though they make the right call say 99% of the time, they wil make mistakes. And sometimes, that 1% mistake is one that can change the course of a game (see every Kal and Iowa loss). And if you are a fan of the team who got fucked due to that mistake, you have every right to bitch and moan about it. It's part of the game though. And it will always be part of the game.

While we are at it let's remove two rules that will never be called. Aiding the runner and hurdling.

What Matt did to Bush to score the winning TD at ND in 2005 will never be called and it shouldn't. Time to take it out of the book.


Same for hurdling although a vivid example escapes me at the moment.

Left Seater wrote:What Matt did to Bush to score the winning TD at ND in 2005 will never be called and it shouldn't.

You mean what Bush did to Leinart. In any case, we gotcha. Now, if a RB lines up 1 yard behind the QB and starts the push at the snap, I bet it gets called because it would look to be a flagrant disregard for the foul. What Bush did was illegal by the book, but at least he was lined up about 4-5 yards back.

Same for hurdling although a vivid example escapes me at the moment.

How about the time LaVar Arrington hurdled the line to tackle the RB for Illinois?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4GoBoY7DdA