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Old Fri May 11, 2001, 08:21am
BktBallRef BktBallRef is offline
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Originally posted by JRutledge

TH, this was an expermental rule that they did last season. They did not adopt it the following year, which was this past season.
Yes, it was during the 98-99 or the 99-00 season. Dick Vitale made such a fuss about the AP arrow and giving the ball to the defense, that they changed the rule. But enforcement of it was difficult and confusing, even to the officials, in many cases.

For example, if there's no team control, then there's no offense or defense. So the arrow was used anyway. That really confused the announcers.

It wasn't the great change that everyone thought it would be. Quite honestly, I don't think there are that many held balls in college anyway.
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