[NU Sports] New college football rule

[hakirsch at aol.com]

I agree that a score should not be wiped out for taunting but I disagree with Dennis on a temporary suspension like hockey. You either kick the guy out of the game or you don't. But if they think a 15 yard penalty is not doing the trick then either give a 25 yard penalty or make it an automatic game expulsion combined with a 15 yard penalty. Do not allow ref discretion for splitting the baby by having only a 15 yard penalty for minor taunting 

Harry
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From: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:42:02 
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Reply-To: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>
Subject: [NU Sports] New college football rule

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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