Possible rule changes...
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Seems like they're half-assing the Elam ending. I doubt most of those are approved.
Making a distinction of fouls allowed in a half, that could result in disqualification is assinine. Make it 6 and let the coach decide how to play a player in foul trouble. What the absolute fff is that about.
I would support a wider lane if it meant eliminating charges from a secondary defender, but we know that'll never happen. The travel violation adjustment and ball over the rim rules need to happen. The rest of those are pretty awful though.
All of those pretty much suck. They keep tinkering with the rules and all they really accomplish is creating less interest in the game. What they have done over the last 30 years is to create more one dimensional basketball. I'm not sure why they believe that will attract viewers. Basically, basketball has devolved into shooting threes or driving to the basket and not much else. So the NCAA wants to relax traveling and other rules to make it easier for a super athletic kid to continually drive to the basket. That's real entertaining to watch. When athleticism trumps skill, then the game is basically dead.
Well it is the NCAA so it couldn't possibly be something that makes sense and yet the idiotic and broken block/charge call carries on as usual.
Only one I would support is held ball goes to the Def. Have always wanted that. I might get on board with a wider lane if I heard some good arguments to support it.
That is the number one item for me as well. I have advocated for that for years, the defense already won the battle, give them possession.
Wider lane and six fouls need to happen yesterday.
The foul bonus thing is just a really convoluted way to basically have quarters. I don’t know why you wouldn’t just switch to quarters if you wanted to do that plus I like the pressure of the 1-and-1 as well as it being something that’s unique to amateur basketball.
The foul bonus thing is just a really convoluted way to basically have quarters. I don’t know why you wouldn’t just switch to quarters if you wanted to do that plus I like the pressure of the 1-and-1 as well as it being something that’s unique to amateur basketball.
Well the most important thing for us is that it would space the court a little bit more since we’re married to posting two players all the time.
I like going to a wider lane to be more like NBA and FIBA.
Just do quarters if you're going to reset fouls at 10 minutes.
No to 6 fouls and to all the silly add ons of 4 fouls in any half disqualifying you.
Technology on the bench is a no brainer. No reason not to.
I've never liked to idea of held ball going to defense. I feel like I'm in the minority but I prefer alternating possession. It's worth half a turnover. Makes sense to me.
No to limiting number of timeouts you can call late.
I'm actually intrigued by allowing a team to decline free throws and take possession. I kind of hate the free throw contest late games turn into.
No to getting rid of 10 second backcourt/5 seconds closely guarded.
Yes to replay for goaltending/shot clock.
If you eliminate offensive interference after the ball bounces off the rim, I think you have to do the same for defense. But I think I prefer the rule as it is compared to FIBA rule.
May as well change the travel rule, it's called this way anyway.
Just do quarters if you're going to reset fouls at 10 minutes.
No to 6 fouls and to all the silly add ons of 4 fouls in any half disqualifying you.
Technology on the bench is a no brainer. No reason not to.
I've never liked to idea of held ball going to defense. I feel like I'm in the minority but I prefer alternating possession. It's worth half a turnover. Makes sense to me.
No to limiting number of timeouts you can call late.
I'm actually intrigued by allowing a team to decline free throws and take possession. I kind of hate the free throw contest late games turn into.
No to getting rid of 10 second backcourt/5 seconds closely guarded.
Yes to replay for goaltending/shot clock.
If you eliminate offensive interference after the ball bounces off the rim, I think you have to do the same for defense. But I think I prefer the rule as it is compared to FIBA rule.
May as well change the travel rule, it's called this way anyway.
Go to quarters and just do jump balls.
Why put more rules in place when you can just fix a lot by going to something that makes sense?
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Perry Stephenson would have been an All American defensive player under that rule.
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Perry Stephenson would have been an All American defensive player under that rule.
5 fouls is way too restrictive with halves and I think quarters could make that penalty a little less severe assuming that the zebras could live without calling a foul every 3 seconds.
Actually jumping for a JUMP ball has always made sense to me. Just a hunch, but I think that was the inspiration to name it that way.
As a fan who witnessed a conference go to the 6 foul rule, it's a huge no for me. The way the coaches abuse rules violations for strategy (which is smart by them) the length of games was insane. If you had a game behind another, you'd miss 3/4 and sometimes an entire half due to the fouls--specifically when a team was within reach in last minute or 2 or was outmanned and would just rotate players to hack on a superior player. Makes the game more foul happy and I'm against tuning in to watch FT's.
#1 rule I'd like to see is an automatic ejection for any coach who steps onto the court during live action. Some of these guys are now on the court with their team having the ball in the frontcourt and it's near 50% of the games we all watch where they are on the court--and this year without fans courtside and benches completely altered, what was the excuse? It's pathetic. Coach your team at practices and make the adjustments in the huddles. If you are so obsessed with people making sure they know you are in charge, you suck at your job.
#1 rule I'd like to see is an automatic ejection for any coach who steps onto the court during live action. Some of these guys are now on the court with their team having the ball in the frontcourt and it's near 50% of the games we all watch where they are on the court--and this year without fans courtside and benches completely altered, what was the excuse? It's pathetic. Coach your team at practices and make the adjustments in the huddles. If you are so obsessed with people making sure they know you are in charge, you suck at your job.
To sum it up: we need to make rules changes to adopt to the NBA standards, in an effort to keep our sport relevant, while competing with new leagues designed to undermine us.
Permit a team to decline free throws in the last two minutes of the last period or of any overtime period and elect possession of the ball for a throw-in instead.
so you have a 47% free throw shooter get fouled, I'd opt to take the ball out and just run time off the clock
also I like the 10 second backcourt rule, if there is an overall shot clock, if a team wants to waste time at the opponents end of the court, that's their risk.
so you have a 47% free throw shooter get fouled, I'd opt to take the ball out and just run time off the clock
also I like the 10 second backcourt rule, if there is an overall shot clock, if a team wants to waste time at the opponents end of the court, that's their risk.
I've never understood the desire to mimic FIBA, or the NBA, for that matter. Until the NBA changed the age at which they will accept a player, I thought the college game was better than either of those. Now, none of them are all that great.
Hate, hate, hate, loathe entirely allowing 2 steps. The NBA is a complete joke with that rule in that almost every player driving to the basket takes 3+ steps. And don't get me started on the jump step/Harden step back (where he almost always takes > 2 steps). Several times in the tourney this year, I saw players pick up their dribble and take 2-1/2 steps and the refs never called it. Happened early in the championship game and the refs gave the offensive player an And-1 to boot.
Some of the other proposed changes are sort of 'who cares' or 'why not'. Don't like the opting to take the ball rather than fouls shots. If you're down 6 points with 2 minutes to go, you can't put the other team on the line and hope they miss. You just have to pray you get a stop and a defensive rebound. Let's say you're down 3 with 40 seconds to go. You can't foul and you really can't afford to let the other team burn 25+ seconds of the clock, either. Kind of gives a pretty big advantage to the team trying to hold onto a lead. I would think that rule change would make it extremely hard to make a comeback in the last few minutes. I'm assuming every foul would reset the shot clock and the trailing team is again screwed.
Some of the other proposed changes are sort of 'who cares' or 'why not'. Don't like the opting to take the ball rather than fouls shots. If you're down 6 points with 2 minutes to go, you can't put the other team on the line and hope they miss. You just have to pray you get a stop and a defensive rebound. Let's say you're down 3 with 40 seconds to go. You can't foul and you really can't afford to let the other team burn 25+ seconds of the clock, either. Kind of gives a pretty big advantage to the team trying to hold onto a lead. I would think that rule change would make it extremely hard to make a comeback in the last few minutes. I'm assuming every foul would reset the shot clock and the trailing team is again screwed.
Eliminating it is one of the stupidest ideas fans have come up with for the game. It needs reform but there is no workable option for getting rid of it entirely. "Defender has to get out of the way" breaks defense entirely.
The slide over by a secondary defender to draw a charge is the WORST rule in all levels of basketball!! Also, unless the primary defender is squared up TOTALLY, a Charge should NEVER be called!!
The OVERLY called Offensive foul has stifled offenses at every level. I HATE IT!!!
I really really really like being able to decline free throws and take the ball out again. If you couldn't get a lead in the first 38 minutes then prolonging the game and trying to cheese your way back in it is such a unsatisfying way to conclude a game.
Except it's not the rules themselves, it's the execution. If they're still using the same referees & lack of consistency and oversight as before there's not going to be much improvement.
Yeah I never understood the rationale for elimininating the charge. If you do that then they might as well rename the sport indoor football.
The rules I'd like to see are:
1.) go to four quarters rather than two halves
2.) call technical foul on flops (I know in theory they've changed this but I've yet to see it actually called. The refs still prefer to give warnings for some dumb reason.)
3.) eliminate calling timeouts during live ball action (can only call timeouts during dead-ball situations). [In what other sport can the player in the middle of game action stop and decide to call timeout?]
1.) go to four quarters rather than two halves
2.) call technical foul on flops (I know in theory they've changed this but I've yet to see it actually called. The refs still prefer to give warnings for some dumb reason.)
3.) eliminate calling timeouts during live ball action (can only call timeouts during dead-ball situations). [In what other sport can the player in the middle of game action stop and decide to call timeout?]
Exactly. Ultimately they will boil it down to an olympic event, which almost nobody wants to watch except every 4 years when they wrap it in the national flag.
No to 6 fouls. That will just lead to refs calling even more IMO. Unless the NCAA goes to 48 minutes a game.
I would prefer to have the men adopt the quarter system like the women. 10 mins and after 5 fouls you get the double bonus. It speeds up the game.
Heck no to the no back court violation
I would prefer to have the men adopt the quarter system like the women. 10 mins and after 5 fouls you get the double bonus. It speeds up the game.
Heck no to the no back court violation
No way on Earth would I support getting rid of the block/charge foul. If a offensive player blatantly runs over a defender, it HAS to be a foul. Otherwise you're going to see a bunch of bull fighters in the lane stepping out of the way at the last second. Defense has value guys.
Go to 4 quarters and be done with halves.
No to 6 fouls/ The college game is already very physical enough. It was envisioned as a finesse sport but, we jumped that shark sometime during the rise of the Big East conference.
No to adding a free step. Traveling is traveling. Make the damn call! And while you're at it...call palming the ball more as well.
Only way I'd support a wider lane would be in conjunction with a clarification of the block/charge rule.
Maybe, give the offensive player 3 free-throws if the defender slides under while he is airborne?
Go to 4 quarters and be done with halves.
No to 6 fouls/ The college game is already very physical enough. It was envisioned as a finesse sport but, we jumped that shark sometime during the rise of the Big East conference.
No to adding a free step. Traveling is traveling. Make the damn call! And while you're at it...call palming the ball more as well.
Only way I'd support a wider lane would be in conjunction with a clarification of the block/charge rule.
Maybe, give the offensive player 3 free-throws if the defender slides under while he is airborne?
i don't think the 10 seconds should start over because you call a timeout. It should be 10 seconds period!