re: Todd Berry says rule change proposal was all about safety

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Patrick Netherton ?@PTNetherton 19m
Troy Calhoun tells @TimBrando that he DID NOT reach out to Nick Saban to speak to the rules committee

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Then have an open meeting, with folks from both sides.

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Cutcliffe was most concerned with the fact that he and every other coach he has spoken with (he estimated it was between 12-15 just today, from both coasts and most conferences) had no idea this proposal was coming.

"We felt blindsided by this," Cutcliffe said. "I had heard it before, obviously, but I had no idea it was on the table. We did not discuss this in the (FBS) head coaches’ meeting at the AFCA (American Football Coaches Association) convention in Indianapolis. It was not even on the agenda.

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There would not be a mandatory 10-second wait to snap the ball in the last two minutes of each half—a fact Cutcliffe pointed out as running against the alleged idea of safety.

"If it’s player safety, I don’t understand why it would be okay to change the rhythm of the game in the two-minute period," he said.

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Still, what bothers Cutcliffe most is the way this proposal came out of nowhere, a suggestion handed down from a 12-person football rules committee that was not discussed in a room full of FBS coaches at the annual convention.

"We talked abut everything imaginable that was on the agenda or around the corner or really a great need as we move forward with the game, to try to protect the game and the players of the game and the professionals, and this was never brought up," Cutcliffe said. None of us knew this was on the docket.

"You would think if this was something that was going to be moved to a vote by the football rules committee that directly affects every one of us in the coaching profession that it would have been put on the docket."

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