I don’t watch the nfl usually for obvious reasons but their stupidity usually trickles down to the NCAA. One of the most flagrant abuses in football causing injuries today is the “defenseless player” intentionally putting themselves in an irreversible situation to draw a 15 yard penalty and possible ejection of the defender. Mahomes is one of the biggest abusers of this, using the late hit rule for out of bounds, so when he nears the line he jukes and gets more yardage because the defender either has to let him or incur a penalty. In the NCAA the late slide is just as prevalent and just as over penalized. Tom Brady is absolutely correct in this, they player initiating the most harm is the one sliding, if they slide late they are risking egregious injury which is way more serious than what the rules were designed to “protect”. The only reason this ruleset exists is to create more offensive yards and more scores, otherwise the only logical way is to make the slider responsible for their and the other players safety.
Yeah, I've noticed a rise in fake slides or faking a step out of bound. They still haven't really solved helmet to helmet contact when the offensive player lowers his head. The rules are so offense protected it's absurd. And the new kickoff is faggy
The old rules at this point probably caused less injuries. They simply made rules to “protect”certain positions (more points), which as it turns out has led to more qbs injured if they try to abuse the system but hey! They got 3 penalties to drive the field and score!
The prob isn’t the fake slide as much as intentionally sliding late for yards and to draw a penalty. Hitting the slider is so over penalized that the only way to avoid it is to wait down the field with no forward momentum at any given moment so that the slider can initiate the slide and hit you headfirst. It’s an insane policy that leads to more injuries because it incentivizes sliding late to draw the penalty after the defender has committed to the tackle.
I don’t watch the nfl usually for obvious reasons but their stupidity usually trickles down to the NCAA.
While I fully agree with you that there are plenty of reasons to avoid the NFL, I can't think of any of those reasons that don't apply just as much to NCAA games. In fact, in many ways, the NCAA is much worse than the NFL.
While the NFL does have cringe inclusive hiring practices, so does the NCAA. And the NCAA also has a bunch more woke garbage including a "Guidance on Inclusive Language" document they published the first version of back in 2010.
And the NCAA considers it a "core guarantee" that all schools in it provide their student athletes with, among other things Mental health, Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and Sexual violence prevention education and training.
NCAA funding of other sports through male sports is a government forced initiative off title IX, they don’t do this electively like the NBA and the WNBA. The NFL instituted diversity bullshit that has trickled down to the NCAA for years, for example the breast cancer awareness month in the NFL of the hiring of female coaches/ referees, both started in the NFL. All of the “training programs” were again because of professional sports before NCAA. The main damages you’re talking about were hamfisted in by the Obama administration but ones the NFL were already doing to “save image” before then. I agree the NCAA is a cesspool but they at least have a wider breadth and far less bastardizing of the sport than the NFL.
Why do all the big four leagues specifically rally for breast cancer. They are male leagues and not one does anything for prostate cancer. Shit they don't even talk about male survivors of breast cancer.
I don’t watch the nfl usually for obvious reasons but their stupidity usually trickles down to the NCAA. One of the most flagrant abuses in football causing injuries today is the “defenseless player” intentionally putting themselves in an irreversible situation to draw a 15 yard penalty and possible ejection of the defender. Mahomes is one of the biggest abusers of this, using the late hit rule for out of bounds, so when he nears the line he jukes and gets more yardage because the defender either has to let him or incur a penalty. In the NCAA the late slide is just as prevalent and just as over penalized. Tom Brady is absolutely correct in this, they player initiating the most harm is the one sliding, if they slide late they are risking egregious injury which is way more serious than what the rules were designed to “protect”. The only reason this ruleset exists is to create more offensive yards and more scores, otherwise the only logical way is to make the slider responsible for their and the other players safety.
Yeah, I've noticed a rise in fake slides or faking a step out of bound. They still haven't really solved helmet to helmet contact when the offensive player lowers his head. The rules are so offense protected it's absurd. And the new kickoff is faggy
Flaming gay. Gayest thing since Dom was born.
The old rules at this point probably caused less injuries. They simply made rules to “protect”certain positions (more points), which as it turns out has led to more qbs injured if they try to abuse the system but hey! They got 3 penalties to drive the field and score!
The fake slide was made illegal after Kenny Pickett did it in college a few years back.
And they acted fast--they changed the rules mid-season.
However, your and Ahaus' other points are valid. Especially if they just...don't call it.
I quit watching the NBA after about 25 years for similar reasons. So much flopping, and the three-pointer is fucking broken.
The last game I watched, players shot 27 threes in a row...and missed all 27. In a playoffs Game 7.
I quit watching the NBA because of how the game has devolved into a spread floor with everyone at the 3 point line. Steph Curry effect, IOW.
3 point line needs to go, already, just get rid of it, it is majorly fucking up the game.
The prob isn’t the fake slide as much as intentionally sliding late for yards and to draw a penalty. Hitting the slider is so over penalized that the only way to avoid it is to wait down the field with no forward momentum at any given moment so that the slider can initiate the slide and hit you headfirst. It’s an insane policy that leads to more injuries because it incentivizes sliding late to draw the penalty after the defender has committed to the tackle.
While I fully agree with you that there are plenty of reasons to avoid the NFL, I can't think of any of those reasons that don't apply just as much to NCAA games. In fact, in many ways, the NCAA is much worse than the NFL.
At least the NFL doesn't (I think, anyway) insist that states need to fund a certain number of professional women's sports if they want their NFL team to be eligible for the playoffs. To get into the Bowl subdivision in NCAA football, though, a school needs to fund 16 varsity sports teams, at least 8 of which must be all-female and 6 of which must be male or coed.
While the NFL does have cringe inclusive hiring practices, so does the NCAA. And the NCAA also has a bunch more woke garbage including a "Guidance on Inclusive Language" document they published the first version of back in 2010.
And the NCAA considers it a "core guarantee" that all schools in it provide their student athletes with, among other things Mental health, Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and Sexual violence prevention education and training.
And more.
NCAA funding of other sports through male sports is a government forced initiative off title IX, they don’t do this electively like the NBA and the WNBA. The NFL instituted diversity bullshit that has trickled down to the NCAA for years, for example the breast cancer awareness month in the NFL of the hiring of female coaches/ referees, both started in the NFL. All of the “training programs” were again because of professional sports before NCAA. The main damages you’re talking about were hamfisted in by the Obama administration but ones the NFL were already doing to “save image” before then. I agree the NCAA is a cesspool but they at least have a wider breadth and far less bastardizing of the sport than the NFL.
Why do all the big four leagues specifically rally for breast cancer. They are male leagues and not one does anything for prostate cancer. Shit they don't even talk about male survivors of breast cancer.
It was entirely to draw a female audience. This was part of the “expansion” of viewership that bastardized the sport so women would watch.