(10-20-2019 04:34 AM)BRtransplant Wrote: In a few years, all this will fix itself. TV timeouts have ruined the game day experience everywhere. Lots of people don't want to sit in a stadium for over four hours to watch a game and they've quit coming. I'm one of them. When schools can no longer afford to fund FBS programs, they'll move down to a lower division that they can afford. Money (ticket sales) will be the driver, not reported attendance.
Of course, there's always the possibility that we quit worrying about TV and go back to playing 3 hour long games on Saturday nights.
One of the biggest problems with the games going so long is "alleged" player injuries.
Nowadays, every time a player gets a "hang nail", he will lay on the field for about 5 minutes, until somebody finally comes and carts him off. These players
are coached to do this as part of the teams game strategy.
Meanwhile, the rest of us have to sit in the stadium, twiddling our thumbs while the TV network runs a minimum of 3 minutes of TV commercials. Never mind, you see the "injured" player re-enter the game two or 3 plays later, feeling just fine.
This has GOT TO STOP. I said this before and I'll say it again:
Any "injured" football player who has to be helped from the field --or causes the game to be stopped for ANY amount of time due to his "injury", should be FORCED to sit out an entire quarter for "further player evaluation". And if it happens in the 4th quarter, the player must sit out the rest of the 4th Qtr,
AND the 1st quarter of his next game.
Simply put, if a player can't get his azzzz off the field
under his on power, then we need to "evaluate" him for player safety reasons.
Trust me, this new "
player evaluation period" will stop all the fake injuries and minor injuries that are currently causing games to be slowed down unnecessarily. The NCAA needs to do this now!. Without a rule like this, they run the risk of seriously running off much of college footballs fan base.
