re: moral equivalency? hunh vs flopping

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Who here is for hunh and their ability to exploit the rules to the fullest to gain offensive advantages such as stopping defensive substitution, putting pressure on the officials, etc, yet find the idea of defensive players Dropping for less than traumatic injuries reprehensible?

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I got no issue with it.

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A little poll. Who here is for hunh and their ability to exploit the rules to the fullest to gain offensive advantages such as stopping defensive substitution, putting pressure on the officials, etc, yet find the idea of defensive players Dropping for less than traumatic injuries reprehensible? Its just within the rules (how does a player know whether he is having heat stroke or is just tired? Hes not a doctor, why chance it? ). How many of you would be screaming for a new rule to stop it if it suddenly became prevalent? How many of the brave coaches championing the current set of rules would be screaming for a new rule? Ill hang up and listen.

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As much as I detest this post for being incredibly whiny, I'll give my opinion:

The HUNH (i.e. snapping the ball as quickly as possible) doesn't violate any rules nor is it unethical. It provides the offense an advantage, but it isn't an unfair one. If they don't substitute, the defense isn't going to get a good opportunity to substitute either. Both parties have the same amount of time pre-snap to prepare for play.

Faking an injury, however, does provide what I'd argue is an unfair advantage. And if you want to argue that it isn't an unfair advantage, then I'd argue it is most certainly unethical, and I believe someone posted an excerpt before where it is officially given the description of unethical by the ruling parties of college football.

Therefore, while I believe phrases such as "exploit the rules" make your premise a very flawed one, anyone that argues that they want to preserve the integrity of the game but in the same breath argues that faking injuries is what they'd advocate because fast paced offenses aren't going away is taking contradictory stances.

Well, we're talking about player safety, right? .. maybe if a player is injured he should sit out for the rest of the series.