2022 CFB Rule Changes

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Seen a few articles and social media posts on rule changes for the upcoming year. Most notable are
  • No fake slides
  • Targeting penalties in the 2nd half of a game can be appealed so the player ejected may not have to sit out the first half of the next game
  • Obvious fake injuries can be reviewed post-game by the conference (but what about the independents?)
  • No below the waist blocking at any time outside the tackle box (eg, TEs and WRs)
  • Legs must be completely covered by pants or socks (NFL has this)
Some are okay in my opinion, some are weak attempts that don’t fix this issue.

Discuss
 
MatatoGT said:
Seen a few articles and social media posts on rule changes for the upcoming year. Most notable are
  • No fake slides
  • Targeting penalties in the 2nd half of a game can be appealed so the player ejected may not have to sit out the first half of the next game
  • Obvious fake injuries can be reviewed post-game by the conference (but what about the independents?)
  • No below the waist blocking at any time outside the tackle box (eg, TEs and WRs)
  • Legs must be completely covered by pants or socks (NFL has this)
Some are okay in my opinion, some are weak attempts that don’t fix this issue.

Discuss
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#1 is good. The rest are stupid
 
They need to change the NIL and transfer rules or the game is ruined and these changes are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Moskva
 
The Kenny Pickett rule is a good one, seems so common sense I was surprised it wasn't already actually a rule. And good for Kenny, not too many players can say there was a rule written just for them!
The targeting appeal is garbage, they need to fix targeting, and it seems like having levels (flagrant 1 and 2 or something like that) is an easy fix to the issue. Only eject players on the serious flagrant infractions. I understand they are scared of potential lawsuits and the optics of what could be construed as walking back on player safety.
Fake injuries review is a joke. Especially if it's just on the conferences to police after the fact. What's ND gonna do? No one will tell them otherwise if they wanted to do what Lane and Ole Miss were doing last year (which I've heard from conspiracy theory folks that Kiffin was doing it on purpose because his stye offense benefits from the fast tempo and is most potentially hurt by fake defensive injuries). In my mind, just change the rule on an injury from out for one play to out for the remainder of the possession.

As for transfer and NIL, this is what happens when you aren't proactive and out in front of things. The NCAA thought they could keep the status quo forever, and rather than build a thoughtful system for reasonable NIL and transfer, they let it all just happen to them so it's no rules and chaos. Given that we aren't going back- the courts and state legislatures have ruled individuals have a right to use their own NIL to earn money, and the old transfer system was not tenable- what could/should be done to fix this?

I think the portal will calm down once players realize that entering the portal is not a guaranteed path to greener pastures, and a lot of players end up in a much worse situation, or no where at all, as once they declare for the portal their original team has no obligation to accept them back and they are likely to lose their spot.

As for NIL money, should this all be declared and public? Would that help? The schools themselves aren't paying anything, this is boosters and businesses around the school that are.
 
Also looking at the video again, how to you stop a fake slide? Like it’s going to be as bad as pass interference
 
The targeting one seems dumb and such a narrow trigger to have almost no impact. What exactly would you appeal? It’s already been analyzed in game on a frame by frame basis.

Just make it so you don’t sit out next game at all.

Or better yet, stop ejecting for it.

Or make it a yellow/red card deal like soccer where you sit only after your second call in a season or X game stretch.
 
aeromech said:
Just shows you how afraid of the option the elite teams are. I suspect if some other non-standard offense ever becomes a threat to equalize the playing field it will be ruled away in similar fashion.
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No disagreement here. My big reason for thinking Johnson’s time had passed was the rule changes that handcuffed him. That and poor recruiting. But things would be much different without rule changes.
 
MatatoGT said:
Seen a few articles and social media posts on rule changes for the upcoming year. Most notable are
  • No fake slides
  • Targeting penalties in the 2nd half of a game can be appealed so the player ejected may not have to sit out the first half of the next game
  • Obvious fake injuries can be reviewed post-game by the conference (but what about the independents?)
  • No below the waist blocking at any time outside the tackle box (eg, TEs and WRs)
  • Legs must be completely covered by pants or socks (NFL has this)
Some are okay in my opinion, some are weak attempts that don’t fix this issue.

Discuss
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I think there is a lot of gray area in some of these.
1. Who determines a fake slide? The refs, the players? Past that, it is open to suggestion. I have a feeling this rule will be used against some teams more often than others.
2. I have always hated the targeting rule. I have seen plenty of Bama and Ugag players lay down some cheap shots, that should of been "targeting", yet not called. Yet, other teams, the slightest questionable hit and that flag goes flying. Again, up to suggestion.
3. Fake injuries.. Let's travel back to the issue with #1. Who determines a fake?
4. No blocking below the waist outside the tackle box. OK?? Makes sense.. Glad Paul Johnson didn't have to face that.
5. The whole legs and socks thing?? Meh... Whatever... Is it for player safety or some kind of uniform control? I fail to see the reason.
 
aeromech said:
Just shows you how afraid of the option the elite teams are. I suspect if some other non-standard offense ever becomes a threat to equalize the playing field it will be ruled away in similar fashion.
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Ok so I'm gonna be the guy... I appreciate the option and what it did for us, but if you can't successfully run it without all the cut blocking, then is it really that great of an "offense" or are you just taking advantage of a certain blocking technique? Why can't an option offense be successful with traditional sized linemen and blocking schemes?
 
Jmonty71 said:
5. The whole legs and socks thing?? Meh... Whatever... Is it for player safety or some kind of uniform control? I fail to see the reason.
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I agree with this. Doesn't really make much sense. If there was any rule needed it is that knee pads must cover the knees. Half of the guys out there now look like they're playing in baseball sliding shorts with a couple tiny pads in them. Tiny knee pads that are halfway up the thigh are serving no purpose.
 
Jmonty71 said:
I think there is a lot of gray area in some of these.
1. Who determines a fake slide? The refs, the players? Past that, it is open to suggestion. I have a feeling this rule will be used against some teams more often than others.
2. I have always hated the targeting rule. I have seen plenty of Bama and Ugag players lay down some cheap shots, that should of been "targeting", yet not called. Yet, other teams, the slightest questionable hit and that flag goes flying. Again, up to suggestion.
3. Fake injuries.. Let's travel back to the issue with #1. Who determines a fake?
4. No blocking below the waist outside the tackle box. OK?? Makes sense.. Glad Paul Johnson didn't have to face that.
5. The whole legs and socks thing?? Meh... Whatever... Is it for player safety or some kind of uniform control? I fail to see the reason.
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Determining an injury is fake is a good basis for a lawsuit against the NCAA or conference. It could be seen as encouraging players to play through injuries so the team doesn't get punished. I don't really get why it is such a big deal.
 
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