Quote:
Originally Posted by RealityCheck
It is becoming a farce in college football watching players flop to slow down no-huddle offenses. Houston pulled the stunt three or four times in the game against Louisiana Tech this week.
The NCAA needs to institute the CFL injury rule...if a player has to be attended to on the field, that player must sit out for at least three plays. It is going to take a rule change like this to stamp out this disturbing trend in unethical coaching tactics.
|
Faking injuries is listed in the front of the rule book under Coaching Ethics. If this is being allowed or coached then they have violated the spirt of competition. This is a sensistive area because who are we, as officials, to determine if he was faking. I think this is why the NCAA doesn't make it a foul because if we flag a player "faking" and then it turns out he truly was injured, we have pie all over our face. What the rules do allow is for us to reset the play clock to 40 seconds for a Team B injury, but that only helps the offense who is trying to run out the clock.
This stuff came up last year and the NCAA made several statements last year about how this is poor sportsmanship.