re: Fake injuries

Did you include when you hillbillies trashed your field and it caused a very long delay in the game in that 5 hour window? Or, did you conveniently forget about that?

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When it is obvious a penalty or a forced timeout is used, and if you don’t have any timeouts, then it’s an automatic penalty for delay of game. They seriously need to take a look at this after the season and reviewing this isn’t going to slow down the game anymore than a fake injury does. While team is dealing with said player, the booth can review and instruct the field officials rather to throw flag or assess timeout to the team.

We have seen teams do this for years against teams that run fast. Ole Miss did it to Tennessee in Heupel first year and that allowed that game to be over 5 hours.

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I hate to see OU do this but as a team who was running hurry up before almost anyone else, this tactic has been used against us so many times that had become a joke.

I don't think you can play the game in an asymmetric way. If your opponent is using a tactic like this you have to consider using it. The impetus is on those in power to make rule changes not to ask teams to stop doing something that is being done against them.

Nobody should get on their high horse about this. Every team does it now.

As for rules, I think the best would be to require that a player who leaves for injury has to sit out until either a change of possession or a timeout. Really injured players need to be evaluated so it makes sense. A player that is injured due to a personal foul would be excepted.

I think the one concern is that a player with something minor like a cramp won't leave because of the rule and risk a more serious injury. I think that is a minor concern at most.

That’s some Alabama/Auburn shite right there

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You’d be all for it till it screws your team over. Let’s say your Star DE gets chop blocked and stays down but without real injury.

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For starters any personal foul would allow the player to return immediately.

If it were easy enough to take a player off the field with legal hits and a team was willing to intentionally do it, that team would already be doing it.

I think of a scenario where a QB gets a legal hit and hurts his throwing hand but is able to return a couple of plays later. That is not something a team could engineer at will.

Every one does this! EVERYONE

Remember when the UT fans tried to say that Ole Miss visiting fans started the throwing?

I'm sure a bunch of our white hair traveling fans started to get upset at us winning.

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When it is obvious a penalty or a forced timeout is used, and if you don’t have any timeouts, then it’s an automatic penalty for delay of game.

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You have to stay creative on defense. Muscle spasms are an oldie but goodie. A little limp can suggest anything. May just be a ding that you can walk off on the sidelines.

What's wrong with the old helmet popping off? No penalty, just a safety issue. The guy has to go off for a play and he's back. The thing is be creative and get fresh troops in and the needed personnel for down and distance.

Beep, beep offenses have a license to steal given the constant running 40-second clock. Unless defenses get creative to take advantage of rules that protect player's safety. I love college football.

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I think it's completely reasonable to say that if you go out due to injury that you have to sit out the remainder of the possession - I think that's enough to disincentivize without penalizing legitimate injury concerns.

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I think this needs to be bare minimum for any player that has to be helped off the field/stops play. If you can get off on your own and dont stop play, then come back whenever. If you stop the clock to be helped off, cant re-join until the following possession bare minimum.

Sadly I still dont think that decreases these happening that much, ultimately teams do this to avoid something much worse from happening - call not in yet, players not in yet, etc...I think teams will still tell some player to go down to preserve a TO to get extra TOs basically.

I know they will never do it, but I would almost make it a reviewable/challengeable play for "faking" an injury and if they deem you did it to just stop play - unsportsmanlike personal foul 15 yard penalty. Gotta make it harsh to get it to stop. Maybe say they can use a TO to avoid the penalty but if no TO available then the penalty has to be enforced. This is such a subjective call in the end that I know the NCAA doesnt want to be responsible for but it tends to be so obvious when the other team is faking the injury to stop play.

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Im proud to say ole miss would never do this

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Sarcasm, I assume

Auburn introduced fake injuries to the SEC