College Football Rule Changes For 2013

Why why why why did I have to click ten times to see all the changes?

Nothing too earth shattering in there. Unfortunately it seems that we'll still be able to wear our bubble wrap numbers based on the wording of the first rule?

The worst one is probably the ejection for targeting...I'm fine with the fifteen yard penalty because I think it really does reduce the number of dangerous hits, but it's still a fact that sometimes it will happen despite all efforts. An ejection is far too harsh.
 
From the website linked in your link:

Offensive Blocking Below the Waist Rule:

The rule establishes a zone for the offense that extends seven yards from the snapper toward each sideline and goes five yards into the defensive secondary and in the other direction all the way back to the offensive team’s end line. Within this zone, an offensive back who is stationary inside the tackle box and an offensive lineman inside the seven-yard zone may legally block below the waist until the ball has left the zone. Everyone else on the offensive team may legally block below the waist only if the block is clearly to the front of the opponent. This only-from-the-front rule also holds true for everyone on the offensive team once the ball has left the zone. In addition, no one on the offense is allowed to block below the waist if the block is directed toward his own end line
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Wonder how this affects us.
 
I think that the 10 second runoff penalty applying to injuries is crap. Why should it matter when a guy gets injured? I know they are doing this to prevent people from faking injuries to extend the last seconds of a game, but it penalizes guys who are legitimately hurt. Imagine you're heads-up on the goal line with 10 seconds left and you get injured and your team loses the game because of the runoff. Now not only are you injured, but it's your weak ass that is responsible for killing what could have been a game-winning drive. That's stupid. What they need to do is actually find a way to penalize people faking injuries, rather than ham-fist a dumb rule in place to 'fix' it. Whats worse is that knowing you can't fake an injury to extend the game anymore due to this rule, the only time this rule will be called is on legitimate injuries.

NCAA continues to be fully inept at managing its own sport.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
I think that the 10 second runoff penalty applying to injuries is crap. Why should it matter when a guy gets injured? I know they are doing this to prevent people from faking injuries to extend the last seconds of a game, but it penalizes guys who are legitimately hurt. Imagine you're heads-up on the goal line with 10 seconds left and you get injured and your team loses the game because of the runoff. Now not only are you injured, but it's your weak ass that is responsible for killing what could have been a game-winning drive. That's stupid. What they need to do is actually find a way to penalize people faking injuries, rather than ham-fist a dumb rule in place to 'fix' it. Whats worse is that knowing you can't fake an injury to extend the game anymore due to this rule, the only time this rule will be called is on legitimate injuries.

NCAA continues to be fully inept at managing its own sport.
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It seems reasonable to me. I believe it also works this way in the NFL. What do you propose as an alternative?
 
carmex said:
From the website linked in your link:



Wonder how this affects us.
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It doesn't - this is essentially the same rule it just has been cleaned up to be easier to read and understand. Basically, at the snap lineman and A backs who aren't split out wide can block below the waist whether it's in front of the defender or not. WR's or Abacks out in the slot can still block below the waist, but only directly in front of the defender. Honestly, I think that CPJ's success in '09 caused this rule review and made a hard job - cut blocking in space, even harder by making the offensive guy make sure he's directly in front of the defender he wants to block.

In '09 Marcus Wright had a vicious cut block on Cam Chancellor on what I think ended up being a Nesbitt TD, anyway, Cam was coming up in the box flowing to the ball and Wright hit him from the outside in the side of his knee. When you watch the replay I still don't understand how he didn't tear his ACL and MCL but he was ok, just shaken up on the play. Aparently ACC officials and even officials across the country have used that replay to show what the rule clarification is trying to help avoid.
 
andrew said:
It seems reasonable to me. I believe it also works this way in the NFL. What do you propose as an alternative?
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In the NFL, they get an additional timeout beyond the 3 you may have charged for the first injury within the 2 minute warning. So if you're heads up on the goal line with 10 seconds to win and you get injured, the clock stops, unless your team is incredibly unlucky on the final series of the game or you're faking a bunch of injuries.

So I'd propose at least that as an alternative. It makes way more sense than just penalizing everyone who gets injured.
 
wreckrod said:
honestly, i think that frank beamer's endless whining and bitching like a bleeding vagina in '09 caused this rule review and made a hard job - cut blocking in space, even harder by making the offensive guy make sure he's directly in front of the defender he wants to block.
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ftfy.
 
The auto ejection on targeting means this will be called pretty sparingly this year. There will still be some high profile controversies this year when it is called.
 
Why not just run off the minimum time that would be needed to line up for another play? I would put the runoff more around 5s. If people want to abuse it, OK, you'll just get a reputation for being cheaters, and will have to live knowing your victory was ill gotten and you are a bastard.

A timeout should be able to negate the runoff, even if used after the fact. (Might already be the rule.)
 
carmex said:
From the website linked in your link:



Wonder how this affects us.
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ThisIsAtlanta said:
IIRC this is just a clarification of an existing rule, doesn't change anything for us.
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WreckRod said:
It doesn't - this is essentially the same rule it just has been cleaned up to be easier to read and understand. Basically, at the snap lineman and A backs who aren't split out wide can block below the waist whether it's in front of the defender or not. WR's or Abacks out in the slot can still block below the waist, but only directly in front of the defender. Honestly, I think that CPJ's success in '09 caused this rule review and made a hard job - cut blocking in space, even harder by making the offensive guy make sure he's directly in front of the defender he wants to block.

In '09 Marcus Wright had a vicious cut block on Cam Chancellor on what I think ended up being a Nesbitt TD, anyway, Cam was coming up in the box flowing to the ball and Wright hit him from the outside in the side of his knee. When you watch the replay I still don't understand how he didn't tear his ACL and MCL but he was ok, just shaken up on the play. Aparently ACC officials and even officials across the country have used that replay to show what the rule clarification is trying to help avoid.
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I could be wrong, but I'm not sure that this doesn't affect us. If I'm reading it correctly, it doesn't restrict a back who's stationary inside the tackle box from cut blocking until the play leaves the zone, but our A-Backs in the flexbone are outside the tackle box. Moreover, I think they often cut when the play has already moved outside the zone. This rule seems designed to hamper our bread and butter. What am I missing?

EDIT: Nevermind, I missed, the otherwise clearly from in front part.
 
AE 87 said:
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure that this doesn't affect us. If I'm reading it correctly, it doesn't restrict a back who's stationary inside the tackle box from cut blocking until the play leaves the zone, but our A-Backs in the flexbone are outside the tackle box. Moreover, I think they often cut when the play has already moved outside the zone. This rule seems designed to hamper our bread and butter. What am I missing?

EDIT: Nevermind, I missed, the otherwise clearly from in front part.
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The part that you should be worried about is how they interpret "in front of the player". In the past, the blocker merely had to have his head in front of the defender (like on a crack block). Does this new rule mean that even having your head in front of the defender is illegal if you come from the side too much?
 
Here's the exact rule change in 2013:

2. Blocking Below The Waist (Rule 9-1-6)
1. Team A prior to a change of possession:
Consider a zone seven yards on each side of the ball extending five yards beyond the neutral zone and back to Team A’s end line.
(a) Team A players who are on the line of scrimmage completely within this zone and backs who are stationary completely within the tackle box at the snap may legally block below the waist inside this zone until the ball has left the zone.
(b) Players not covered in a (above) while the ball is still in the zone, and all players after the ball has left the zone, are allowed to block below the waist if the force of the initial contact is from the front, but they may not block below the waist if the force of the initial contact is from the side or back. “From the front” is understood to mean within the clock-face region between “10 o’clock and 2 o’clock” forward of the player being blocked.
(c) Once the ball has left the zone a player may not block below the waist toward his own end line.
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http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect...football/playing+rules/2013_mfb_changes_final

Here's the rule change in 2012:

2. BLOCKING BELOW THE WAIST
Team A
A. Before a change of team possession any Team A player who is beyond the neutral zone may not block below the waist toward his own goal line. When in question the block is directed toward his goal line.
B. The following players of Team A are restricted with regard to blocking below the waist:
1. A lineman who at the snap is more than seven yards from the middle lineman of the offensive formation.
2. A back who at the snap is aligned with the frame of his body completely outside the tackle box or completely outside the frame of the body of the second lineman from the snapper in either direction toward a sideline.
3. A back who is in motion at the snap and had been outside the area in B-2 any time after the ball was ready for play and before the snap.
All other players are unrestricted. In particular, after the ball is ready for play a player who is in motion at the snap and is never outside the area in B-2 before the snap is unrestricted.
C. Inside the area in B-2 a restricted player may not block below the waist against any opponent.
D. Outside this area a restricted player may not block below the waist in a direction away from his adjacent sideline. He may block below the waist along the north-south line or toward his adjacent sideline (subject to the restrictions in Paragraph A).
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http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect...es+Administration/NCAA+Rules+Sports/Football/

Here's the rule change in 2011:

Beginning this coming season, blocking below the waist will be illegal except on scrimmage plays in the following instances:

Wide receivers more than seven yards from the center at the snap of the ball can block below the waist only against a player facing him or toward the nearest sideline.
Running backs/receivers in the backfield and outside the tackle box (the area five yards on either side of the center) or players in motion can block below the waist only on players facing them or toward the nearest sideline.
Players on the line of scrimmage within seven yards of the center are still allowed to block below the waist anywhere on the field.

Previously, officials had to determine where a player started at the snap or, in the case of wide receivers, how far down the field the receiver was to determine whether the block below the waist was legal.
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http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect...11/April/PROP+approves+football+rules+changes

Forgive me for being NCAA lawyer-speak-tarded, but this does not sound like much of a change from the last 2 years. In addition to this, I'm certain the action being clarified was already illegal in 2010 and before, just in different language. I'd be seriously surprised if this modified the way we or pretty much anyone else play the game. I think it's solely intended to make the calls easier for the officials in real time.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
The auto ejection on targeting means this will be called pretty sparingly this year. There will still be some high profile controversies this year when we get BS called for it late in the game against VT.
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How I interpret it.
 
I think they should change the rule to make the blocker have to ask the opposing player politely if he may block said player below the waist.

Also, while we are at it, all tackles should only be arm tackles. You should have to grab a player by the shoulder pads or by the waist - without using your helmet or shoulder pads to lead the way - in order to make a tackle.

All QB's should be wearing red or green "no tackle" jerseys.
 
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