[NU Sports] New college football rule

[Jonathan Hodges]

Just an FYI, I believe the new rule will be a 15 yard penalty from the spot
of the foul (not from the previous spot).  So, taunting in the end zone will
have the same result as before.  BUT the new rule will mean taunting before
reaching the end zone (remember Auburn's 100 yd INT return in the Outback
Bowl) would be penalized from the spot where the taunting occurred and
negate any score.  This rule was announced before last season so everyone
knew it was coming.  I personally have no problem with it as long as they
don't use it to punish very minor or debatable actions.

Jonathan

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:

> Watched the spring scrimmage last night.  As Tom Maycock reported from
> being there freezing his tail off, I don't know how anyone could come to any
> conclusions.  Twenty-four players didn't even suit up.  Fitz knows what he
> saw, and that's all that counts.  That last "fun" competition requiring ten
> spins around a baseball bat was hysterical to watch.  Guys afterward tried
> to run ten yards down the field to hand a bat to the next player while
> dizzily careening in the wrong direction.
>
> As to the new rule that they mentioned last night, it seems that starting
> this season, taunting following a score will result in a fifteen-yard
> penalty from the spot of the previous play, thus wiping out the TD.  I
> presume it would apply to non-scoring plays, too, but taunting usually
> occurs after a TD.  I didn't hear if it was a loss-of-down penalty.
>
> I get what they NCAA is trying to do, but I don't like it.  Taunting is a
> dead-ball foul.  The play is over.  I presume that the refs would not wipe
> out a score if there is a personal foul following the TD.  So, it's less of
> a crime to cold-cock a guy than it is to taunt him?  What happens if the TD
> is a game-winner and everyone erupts?  Behavior permitted on a game-ending
> play even now is not permitted during the game.  What is taunting and what
> is celebration?  I can't wait for the uprising the first time that a ref
> wipes out a game-winning score.
>
> How about they keep the penalty the way it always was and require the
> offending player to sit for the next 15 game minutes, including the next
> game if necessary?  If hockey can track penalty minutes, so can football.
>  Every subsequent taunting foul that season gets that player tossed from the
> game right then and there, and the third one gets him benched for x number
> of games transferable to the following season.
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