Re: Herbstreit On Mike & Mike Talking About Changing The Rules Against The HUNH Offen
Here's my answer to this. Don't take it personally bro, I'm not being a wiseguy. But if you have a problem with the HUNH, tough luck. Design a strategy to contend with it or go home and wait it out on the sidelines while other teams do. That's what football is about. If I don't like Stanford and Alabama's grind it out physical play, I can cry to the league to make rules against it, or I can go out there and try to beat it (like we did in commanding fashion against both Michigan State and Stanford). That's college football, and that's why it's great. Putting in rules that handicap a particular strategy in order to benefit another is just plan weak sauce. And not very cool.
The only rules I would like to see is to eliminate the "cards" teams use on the sidelines.
Use hand signals Only.
As far as the HU speed of play, the rules don't need to be changed, just followed.
The officials should be in place, ready for play then blow the whistle and
then theoffense can run the play after being set for 1 second. That's the rules now. They just aren't followed.
The way it is now, the officials aren't ready and in position too many plays. They miss too many illegal shifts, formations, motions, substitutions. Linemen downfield has gotten a little more attention lately but it isn't called nearly enough.
This style of play or "strategy" is heavily dependent on these missed calls to be effective and is designed to take advantage of these missed calls.
Using your reasoning it is perfectly acceptable and cool to have an injury time-out called between every play. I mean most players suffer several contusions per game. They could take a knee and have the trainer come check it out, tell him he will be ok, then trot off the field and be back the next play.
You would probably not like that though. Because why?
The rules don't say how bad an injury needs to be in order for a timeout, do they?
