Good morning. Well, what’s that coming down the track? It’s the mea… uhhhhh NFL Lite. That light you see getting brighter and brighter? Yeah, that’s the NFL Lite locomotive that’s about to mow down college football as we know it.
Helmet comms? I can live with that. As technology continually improves, I see no reason not to take advantage of it. As long as everyone is on the same plane, good enough. But, this 2-minute warning BS? As Coffey points out, they just made a big deal about shortening games, one season ago. Now, they see some more dollars to chase and the length of games isn’t really that important anymore. Not that it was, the game shortening sure as hell didn’t shorten or reduce commercial breaks did it? Bring back Jefferson-Pilot.
Go Dawgs!
This was “scheduled” for 0600. But, stupid me clicked PM vice AM… so, here it is now.
Great job on getting the band back together,
I’d like a refund of my subscription fee, please and thank you…
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The aspects of the NFL I resent or would like to avoid are in the area of player acquisition/retention/compensation and the expanded playoffs. The in game rules consistently tend to be adopted by the college game over time. The two-minute warning and the one foot vs two feet rule have been outliers and not terribly significant ones in my view.
The two minute warning creates revenue, but also greater opportunities for interesting events before the half and for comebacks. The way they’ve modified the rules, onside kicks are practically defunct. Giving teams the option to ko and play defense instead, in more situations, will make things more interesting.
Agree on the comeback point. Without the 2 min warning, there was virtually no chance for college teams to come back from more than one score down inside 4 mins. Unless you’re Tech playing Mario, that is. 😉
The 2 minute warning works with today’s clock rules. It’s an extra timeout … I know, I know … but it does give the team who is behind one last opportunity for a clock stoppage.
The problem is the breaks between every possession and sometimes within the same possession.
I do think the college game needs to go to both feet in bounds. It would reduce the number of replays (and opportunities for tv timeouts). Oh, wait, what I consider a bug, the money guys consider a feature.
I did read that scheduling a two minute time out allows the broadcasters to better plan commercials. The teaser being this would remove a game stoppage for a dedicated commercial. Which can alter the flow of the game. Once approved the reduced tv time outs will quickly be forgotten in favor of Mo Money for themselves.
Every time they say they want to improve the game, they mean they want to improve their opportunities to wring more cash out of the suckers who watch games. I hate them.
I have to say, the CFP stuff has me WAY more concerned about college football. Multiple auto-bids and 14 teams is a flipping joke and will have so many unintended consequences. Why have a conference championship at all? Why should the second best team in the Big 12 in most years make the CFP over the 4th best team in the SEC? Obviously it’s about generation of revenue for conferences and schools, but these changes don’t make sense when the networks aren’t going to cough up anymore money. Why does Sankey feel the need to negotiate contracts before making seismic changes? Never should have gone over 6, but 4 is best for so many reasons. This will be a joke.
Why have a a conference championship? MONEY! It is the only thing these greedy bastards think about. They know they are about to lose millions to the players soon and they are just trying to stay ahead of it.
Duh, lol. Let me rephrase: other than money, what purpose would a conference championship serve to field a CFP where 3 teams make the CFP automatically? If everyone knows it’s about money only, those games immediately become devalued. And a lot of people love the SECCG more than the CFP. Right now the championship games have value to fans and the CFP field, in addition to funding conferences. This new proposal would ruin the first two.
You’re right I just went for the cynical thing. It’s still great to be the SEC Champ, especially since Darth Saban is gone.
Warning Will Robinson, it’s two minutes left in the game we never thought would evolve into a shit show…thanks WWL…GO DAWGS!!
I just hope that they don’t do away with the clock stopping on 1st down so they can offset this commercial ($) opportunity. I think that that adds to the end of games when a team has a chance to mount a drive with no timeouts and only a minute left.
Of course, I say that as a fan of a team with an O that can mount such a drive if needed, and a bad ass D that can stop such efforts, so other teams’ mileage may vary…
Either bend a knee and approve what the SEC, b10 and their broadcast partners want. Or plan B is we tried to negotiate with the other conferences. They were unreasonable so we are forced to poach any remaining teams of theirs we want. Now that we have all the top teams in two conferences we are out of the NCAA. The SEC and b10 championships are a 4 team playoff per league. The two conferences champions meet in a Super Bowl like atmosphere.
This is not my choice just where this might go quicker than most expect if these two leagues don’t get their way. Billions of dollars at stake for the two leagues and life or possible death for some streaming services future.
Good change.
More excitement at the end of halves/games is a good thing.
Divine intervention from The Senator. GTP continues so we can complain, argue and debate Kirby’s poor use of the 2 minute warning. Can’t wait.
Of course, it will ultimately result in an adjustment to Kirby’s learning curve!
I don’t mind the helmet communication. Never been a fan of the sideline signal/towels boys/misdirections, etc. Seems ridiculous at times in high-stakes games, like serving prime rib at the Waffle House. Yes, that was intentional. FTGTMF.
I’d like some real distinctions to remain, though, between the pros and the college game. I really love the one-foot-inbounds college rule, which is unique. Same for NOT adding a 2-minute warning.
I don’t want college players to be legally classified as employees, though I’m sure that is coming via a judge somewhere pretty soon. The Senator and I disagreed on some of this; we all know he was an early and vocal advocate for NIL. So was I, but I thought it might come with some operating instructions. Hell, no one has even figured out any rules at all. We haven’t even figured out how to regulate the transfer portal ( something of an understatement there).
I wish one of you scamps would call me a hopeless Romantic, just for old times sake.
Miss you, Bluto. Go Dawgs.