re: HUNH Rule change

First let me say, before degloving your argument, that I find it amusing that you arrogant gumps keep popping up with your arguments about how "clearly" this and "obviously" that to support your argument...an argument that ACTUALLY is clearly bullshite to everyone in the sports world, with the lone exceptions to Bama, Arky, Troy Calhoun and Saban fan-girl Todd Berry.

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The HUNH offense, as ran today, is premised on abusing football's substitution rule.

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Yet Auburn substituted at will against HUNH teams...so what's your problem again? Oh..Bama doesn't WANT to substitute more often than normal. He wants his guys to be huge and strong and as a result, need more rest between plays. It doesn't undermine the ability to sub...it makes it necessary to sub more often PARTICULARLY for the larger defensive players. Safety? Um...no

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The reason the offensive players hurry to the LOS after the last play is NOT to snap the ball within a few seconds of getting there. Rogers Redding, Coordinator of NCAA officials, says that the average point in time when the ball is snapped under HUNH offenses is at the 17-second mark of the 40-second time allowance. HUNH offenses almost never snap the ball within 10 seconds of the last play.

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Perhaps...but if you are trying to run pace...and you have to stop and double check that you aren't going to get a delay of game penalty (for going too fast), it disrupts your rhythm and essentially gives the defense a countdown as to when you are going to snap the football.

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There is plenty of time for the defense to substitute before the ball is typically snapped but with HUNH offenses purposely getting to the LOS quickly to create the threat of the substitution penalty, the defense is put at a tremendous disadvantage, especially when you consider that defensive play requires far more physical exertion than offensive play.

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Perhaps...and when they do so, they prevent themselves from being substituted. Which ends up making it a "who's better conditioned" scenario, instead of a "who is bigger a stronger ala Mount Cody" scenario. I can see why that is inconvenient.

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All the proposed rule does is guarantee the defense a small window of opportunity (10 seconds after the clock is started following the end of the last play) to substitute without the substitution penalty being used against them.

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They have this opportunity after EVERY FIRST DOWN...they actually have this opportunity between each play but I don't expect everyone to be able to pull it off like Auburn did...Gary Danielson described Auburn's defensive substituting agains TAMU as Auburn "putting on a clinic", but I certainly would expect teams to be able to substitute after first downs.

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It has no effect on the pace of the game. None. That is a ruse being used by HUNH proponents

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I don't think it has much affect...but I heard earlier that Auburn would have been penalized twice against FSU but 8 times against Mizzou. So yea...it has an affect.

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If the rule is not passed, I hope defensive coaches will start planning a designated injury after every play in order to force their hand on this issue. If it's acceptable to use the rule book to prevent substitutions, then it should be acceptable to use it for purposes of making substitutions.

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Well, that's just like you guys. This is ACTUAL cheating. Faking an injury to slow down a defense so you can do on your own terms what you could have done regardless...substitute. It's also just like you assholes to put HUNH on par with faking injuries. I can assure you, no one but you gumps believe that. One is cheating, the other is not. The only reason there isn't a rule against faking injuries is that you never really know if it's fake or not and the officials don't want to be the assholes that flag a player for faking an injury, then he turns out to have a broken ankle.

In the same way that the game evolved to require larger, stronger players, and Bama stayed ahead of the curve, the game is evolving again...toward leaner, more highly conditioned players.

After this is voted down, the big take away here is that Saban and Fats Longshanks are sore losers, who apparently aren't bright enough to solve the defensive problems that face them on the field...so they tried to back door a rule under false pretenses. That's what people will remember. You are all huge pussies, and now everyone knows it.