College Football “Execs” Want Shorter Games

If you want to have the conversation about eliminating replay entirely, I think I could entertain the thought.
 
clapper said:
Hawkeye is fake. Change my mind.
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I could believe it. I remember reading a post on a sports betting group once where the guy swore up and down the basketball and the hoop had magnets in it. I mean don't get me wrong, I think the NBA is almost as equally scripted as pro wrestling, but I think they're at least a little more subtle about it.
 
They are not going to limit replay (that makes TV and its replays and opinions more important). They are not going to shorten halftime (time for their talking heads, commercials and highlight packages). They are not going to limit commercial breaks during the games (same reasons - selling ads, quick studio updates). So, they want to run clock to lead to fewer plays. As someone who is in the stadium for six or seven ECU games and three or four Tech games with a Campbell game thrown in, it is increasingly clear that the fan in the stands is not considered. Most of us are only bothered by excessive media timeouts and replays too lengthy. We don’t want fewer plays.

I like limiting replay to one minute. If you can’t see a clear error to reverse in sixty seconds, then the play stands. Game length has increased a good bit due to spread offenses passing so much, moving the chains, and scoring lots of points. Paul Johnson games with a running offense left huge amounts of time to fill at the end of a broadcast. The argument that TV does not lengthen the games by comparing to non-televised games is stupid - at those games they still take media timeouts.

I like being more predictable like basketball. Have eight media timeouts of three and a half minutes each after the first change of possession following the ten and five minute marks of each quarter. Allow only 45 seconds for called timeouts. After scores allow sixty seconds for getting the kickoff and return teams ready.
 
Maybe we need fresh new ideas. Someone gets injured? So? Pretty damn selfish for you to sit there making everyone else wait for what is clearly a YOU problem. Let them play through I say! Also, live rattlesnakes on the field, all kinds of new strategies will emerge as a result, and this would get rid of the out of shape ref issue in short order among countless other issues that would go by the wayside such as did he bobble the ball while making a football move, whatever the öööö that is. Instead "holy öööö, watch out for that side-winding rattler" is more likely to dominate the parlance. Not really seeing a downside to be honest.
 
juraitwaluzka said:
Maybe we need fresh new ideas. Someone gets injured? So? Pretty damn selfish for you to sit there making everyone else wait for what is clearly a YOU problem. Let them play through I say! Also, live rattlesnakes on the field, all kinds of new strategies will emerge as a result, and this would get rid of the out of shape ref issue in short order among countless other issues that would go by the wayside such as did he bobble the ball while making a football move, whatever the öööö that is. Instead "holy öööö, watch out for that side-winding rattler" is more likely to dominate the parlance. Not really seeing a downside to be honest.
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How about lions and tigers that come out of trap doors in unexpected locations? Good enough for the Roman Colosseum, good enough for college football.
 
covingtonjacket said:
How about lions and tigers that come out of trap doors in unexpected locations? Good enough for the Roman Colosseum, good enough for college football.
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Yes please!!!! I will instantly buy Sunday Ticket, Saturday Ticket, every Ticket!!!! All in all a net positive.
 
JJacket said:
Have a 3 hour clock. At three hours, regardless of anything else, go "that's it. Game over"
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Played church league softball that had a hard cap like that. Had to get the next scheduled game in.
 
Speed up the game without sacrificing the game-
GPS chip in the football, no more chain measurements or reviews for first downs or touchdowns.
Quicker reviews, more limited reviews. Use whatever tech or AI is out there. Reviews now are a dramatic announcement and take forever while the ref watches some little monitor, wouldn’t it be better to have a crew in a central location with all the feeds on giant screens to analyze quickly?
Pay up to have full time officials who are competent enough to keep up with a quicker pace of play, includes being in playing shape so they can run the ball to the line.

I’m okay with more aligning the clock to NFL rules.
 
77GTFan said:
I like being more predictable like basketball. Have eight media timeouts of three and a half minutes each after the first change of possession following the ten and five minute marks of each quarter. Allow only 45 seconds for called timeouts. After scores allow sixty seconds for getting the kickoff and return teams ready.
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This is the answer. I'd also add. No more stop on 4th down, punt, TV timeout, and no more TD, ad, KO, ad sequences.
 
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