Is This Taunting Rule Change Another Way for SEC Refs to Protect the League Breadwinners Like Bama?
regarding taunting and eye black messages (not necessarily one and the same–just ask Tim Tebow). Rarely do I agree with Dennis Dodd of CBSsports.com, but I do on this. Dodd writes:
Officials have enough trouble watching for legitimate “points of emphasis” penalties — head shots and blocking below the waist. It seems to distract from the mission that a game could be altered by a petulant offensive player showing the ball to a defender on his way to the end zone.
“We’ve seen more and more instances a kid scores and hands the ball to an official,” Parry said.
So why go further with this silly new rule?
Maybe it’s needed. Maybe not. Either way, we’re seeing the last trickle down from those bad boy Hurricanes.
You can imagine the obvious complications ahead. One man’s taunting gesture is another man’s no-call. Adding one more judgment call to the rulebook is asking for trouble, especially when a game is on the line.
This is an even more puzzling decision than than the inevitable expansion of the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament.
At least with the expansion, the rationale, regardless of how the NCAA wants to spin it, is as plain as the nose on my face. It’s about the money.
I am not sure what the rationale is for changing the taunting penalty so that some violations will nullify plays (they previously had been enforced after the play, whereas now, some will nullify plays, including touchdowns, completely, is it the taunting occurs during the play).
It just seems like odd timing. There were several bogus calls on personal fouls last year (such as Arkansas’ Malcom Sheppard vs. Fla and Georgia’s A.J. Green vs. LSU–both which led to referee punishment) and the NCAA now wants to ADD to the cluster factor?
Maybe I am paranoid, but I think it’s a bad move by the NCAA that will have an adverse impact on the game next year.
per this article. Jones apparently initiated contact with Parcells after a recent video surfaced showing a drunk Jones chiding Parcells, and Tim Tebow, and went viral.
Uh Oh. NCAA Passes New Rules
Posted by Adam Butler on April 15, 2010
Is This Taunting Rule Change Another Way for SEC Refs to Protect the League Breadwinners Like Bama?
regarding taunting and eye black messages (not necessarily one and the same–just ask Tim Tebow). Rarely do I agree with Dennis Dodd of CBSsports.com, but I do on this. Dodd writes:
This is an even more puzzling decision than than the inevitable expansion of the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament.
At least with the expansion, the rationale, regardless of how the NCAA wants to spin it, is as plain as the nose on my face. It’s about the money.
I am not sure what the rationale is for changing the taunting penalty so that some violations will nullify plays (they previously had been enforced after the play, whereas now, some will nullify plays, including touchdowns, completely, is it the taunting occurs during the play).
It just seems like odd timing. There were several bogus calls on personal fouls last year (such as Arkansas’ Malcom Sheppard vs. Fla and Georgia’s A.J. Green vs. LSU–both which led to referee punishment) and the NCAA now wants to ADD to the cluster factor?
Maybe I am paranoid, but I think it’s a bad move by the NCAA that will have an adverse impact on the game next year.
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