Did y’all see this rule change?

next under consideration:

The "that's not fair" rule.

thats gonna frick up a lot of close games

Does this apply to the second half or just the first? Or is it up to Saban's discretion after he sees whether the play he runs at the end of the game works or fails?

The rationale was the rules committee constantly gets hounded by a particular coach and they finally gave in.

If there’s time on the clock and a replay gets initiated then the time should be left on the clock. That’s going to screw someone out of a potential game winning kick in the near future

So what if the team has a timeout left? Does this rule still apply?

If the clock runs out and the replay deems that there is time left on the clock, say 2 seconds or even 1 second. The team should be able to call a timeout, stopping the clock at what the review says should be left.

A mole absolutely made a mountain out of his hill.

There is no penalty and no clock stopped because a Ref needed to sneeze. No untimed down.

My bet is two things happened in the rues committee.

1. The desire to shut Saban up.

2. The perpetual argument about when the clock operator presses the button. Start of the whistle, mid whistle, post whistle, does the arm motion to start initiate it?

You can't imagine the conversations that take place in Officiating meetings on something as simple as starting a clock.