This is a thread for the NCAA rule change regarding kickoffs. A topic that was created in the NCAA Football video game section was closed and the discussion regarding the rule change was deemed to be more appropriate here in the college football section.
This is my response to the discussion in the closed thread:
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ncaa-13-a.html
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Prior to the 2007 season, the NCAA moved kickoffs from the 35 to the 30. The reasoning was that the kickoff is the "most exciting play in college football" and it needs to be showcased more. That rule was done in conjunction with the reverting of the failed 2006 clock rules (running the clock on change of possession). I am of the belief that moving the kickoffs back from the 35 to the 30 in 2007 was done merely as a distraction thinking that people would talk about that instead of how bizarre the 2006 clock rules were.
Now 6 seasons later, a year after the NFL decided to move kickoffs back to the 35 (after having it at the 30 for much longer than college football had), college football follows suit as NFL Jr. and does what the NFL does...
...only they make touchbacks on kickoffs to the 25 yard line? Is this bizarro world? touchbacks in football is (or was) a fact at the 20 yard line. the sky was blue, the grass was green, and kickoffs in football were at the 20 yard line. now they are not, meanwhile, the same problems that make the game worse than it was in 2005 still exist.
this is another example of changes to college football where they experimentally try something new while not fixing the problems that exist. it's painstakingly agonizing to anyone who loved the sport of college football. the game was fine in 2005. college football was just incredible. most everything felt right. now it is a watered down overly manipulated sport. it was fine 10 years ago when college football kickoffs were from the 35 and the NFL's were from the 30. avg starting field position was farther back in college football and there were more kickoff returns in the NFL. it made sense. it was the way it was and fans didn't question it. starting in 2006 CFB started feeling weird, and it was absolutely due to all the year to year bizarro rule changes. it hasn't felt right since. in fact every year it feels weirder and more out of synch.
This is my response to the discussion in the closed thread:
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ncaa-13-a.html
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Prior to the 2007 season, the NCAA moved kickoffs from the 35 to the 30. The reasoning was that the kickoff is the "most exciting play in college football" and it needs to be showcased more. That rule was done in conjunction with the reverting of the failed 2006 clock rules (running the clock on change of possession). I am of the belief that moving the kickoffs back from the 35 to the 30 in 2007 was done merely as a distraction thinking that people would talk about that instead of how bizarre the 2006 clock rules were.
Now 6 seasons later, a year after the NFL decided to move kickoffs back to the 35 (after having it at the 30 for much longer than college football had), college football follows suit as NFL Jr. and does what the NFL does...
...only they make touchbacks on kickoffs to the 25 yard line? Is this bizarro world? touchbacks in football is (or was) a fact at the 20 yard line. the sky was blue, the grass was green, and kickoffs in football were at the 20 yard line. now they are not, meanwhile, the same problems that make the game worse than it was in 2005 still exist.
this is another example of changes to college football where they experimentally try something new while not fixing the problems that exist. it's painstakingly agonizing to anyone who loved the sport of college football. the game was fine in 2005. college football was just incredible. most everything felt right. now it is a watered down overly manipulated sport. it was fine 10 years ago when college football kickoffs were from the 35 and the NFL's were from the 30. avg starting field position was farther back in college football and there were more kickoff returns in the NFL. it made sense. it was the way it was and fans didn't question it. starting in 2006 CFB started feeling weird, and it was absolutely due to all the year to year bizarro rule changes. it hasn't felt right since. in fact every year it feels weirder and more out of synch.
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