Who is going to step up now that Taylor is graduating???

[dawg80]

Was this thread hijacked or what??

Yes.

So, what else is new?

[techman05]

Yes.

So, what else is new?

exactly, just check the web address. pretty sure hijacking is in the forum rules.

[OLDBLUE]

Great testing ground for building patience and perseverance.
Now STOP it!

[Bearpaw]

That doesn't work. First of all, using your "timeout" punishment theory, UMASS would have ran out of "timeouts" very quickly. So what do you do with the rest of them? If you recall, UMASS literally had 15 players go down with injuries in our game. So, your answer is not a viable solution after the first few injuries.

Don't overthink this. The game officials already have enough to think about without putting this on them too. I don't want the game officials' input regarding whether it's a back injury, or a leg injury, etc... Frankly, I'm not interested in their unqualified medical opinion.

So, keep it simple: If you go down with an injury, you sit for the rest of the series..."for evaluation" purposes. It's automatic. It's like a player who loses his helmet now and has to sit out the next play....nobody even has to think about it. And it's amazing how fewer helmets are coming off these days. And I would take this injury rule one-step further: The 2nd time the same player causes a game to be stopped due to an injury, he's done for the half. That's right, he's out for the rest of the half. The 3rd time in the same game, he's out for the remainder of the game.

Too may players are laying on the field, faking injuries, and then coming right back in the next few plays. This behavior disrupts the rhythm of the game and unnecessarily extends the length of the game.

I would prefer quarter the 2nd time, half the 3rd, and game the 4th. Half seems to be too much; unless we're talking about an option team like navy, where each series takes 7 minutes...

[techman05]

I think you have to avoid making the officials doctors. Do we want them determining who is hurt and who is faking? That is why I proposed the blanket rule of sitting out the series for evaluation. Teams won't risk putting a scrub out there just to flop. They also don't want a key player sitting out for faking. Problem solved.

[Houston Techsan]

I believe some teams already have "designated" injury players so their top stars won't have to leave even for one play.

[techman05]

I believe some teams already have "designated" injury players so their top stars won't have to leave even for one play.

So we need to find the one kid on the sideline who is so skinny-fat that he has to be the designated injury faker. Key on him and run a play right at him on the first snap he comes in the game. 6 points later, they will think twice about that tactic.