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I'm going to half cheat right off the bat and say I would eliminate automatic reviews.  All replays are coach's challenge, in all sports, and you get unlimited, but for each one you get wrong, it costs you a timeout.  No timeouts = no replays.  For baseball, an incorrect challenge would either add or subtract an out.

So with that overriding change...

NCAA Football
1.) Ban snaps during the first 10 seconds of the playclock until the final 2 minutes.  Hurry up and wait, just to prevent substitutions has hurt the game from a viewer standpoint more than anything.  Even the fastest teams almost never snap the ball that quick, it just removes the threat that they could.

2.) Remove waivers...for players and coaches.  You transfer, sit a year.  You switch schools as a coach, you sit a year.  Obvious caveat if you were fired.

NCAA Basketball
1.) Remove charges.  Coaching clearly teaching to take charges has changed the spirit of the rule.  You extend an arm, offensive foul.  You move on a screen, offensive foul.  You stand in the pain like a guy blocking a free kick instead of playing defense, no call.  It's your choice to defend that way, but if the offensive player can still finish through it, good for him.

2.) Go to NCAA baseball draft eligibility rules.

NFL
1.) Get rid of illegal contact.  There is already PI and defensive holding, that's enough.  Passing has become too easy as it is, there is zero reason for this rule to exist.

2.) Not sure the exact mechanism, but QB salaries impact on the salary cap have made it so you either need a top 2-3 QB or a QB in his rookie contract to win it.  The worst thing you can have is a good QB, not on a rookie contract.  Stafford, Flacco, Dalton, Cousins?  You are screwed, and that seems messed up.  Even Brady has always taken less, which has somewhat negated the impact of his contract.

NBA
1.) Get rid of advancing the ball on a timeout.  It makes a late shot, but non-buzzer beater, meh, because the other team is going to get a solid response.

2.) Remove max contracts.  I like the fact that you can keep your own FAs if you are willing to pay the tax, prevents the amount of roster turnover of the NFL, but the max contract is what creates all these super teams.  If every team can only offer guys the same amount, then of course they'd rather go play with some other great players.  Let the Suns overpay for a guy if they want.

MLB
1.) Ban shifts.  At least two infielders have to be on either side of second, and can't be any deeper than the back of the dirt.  The lack of balls in play starts here.  Shifts take away hard hit singles and doubles.  So guys swing for nothing but home runs, and are content to strike out, so the lack of action is striking.

2.) Salary cap and salary floor.  I was never as in favor of this, because I liked teams' ability to develop their own talent, but the recent trend towards guys being so good, so early, has sort of ruined it.  Teams milk guys on peanuts, which was ok when they then got paid, but that isn't happening anymore, because you can find another young cheap guy to fill the role.

NHL
1.) Honestly, nothing

2.) Same.  I wish I liked hockey more, because their free agent system is the best in sports, and I can't think of a single rule change

CFB:

1.  Every P5 team must play at least 10 P5 level teams each year.

2.  Players can transfer after Year One without sitting out, but after that they sit out unless they graduated.

3.  A change in the head coach means any player can change teams with no penalty.

4.  I don't follow instructions very well.

I don't hate anything here as an alternative to my rule

I'm going to half cheat right off the bat and say I would eliminate automatic reviews.  All replays are coach's challenge, in all sports, and you get unlimited, but for each one you get wrong, it costs you a timeout.  No timeouts = no replays.  For baseball, an incorrect challenge would either add or subtract an out.

I don't like adding or subtracting an out.  It's messing with the whole history of the game.  Even worse than the DH, which is horrific.

NCAA Football
1.) Ban snaps during the first 10 seconds of the playclock until the final 2 minutes.  Hurry up and wait, just to prevent substitutions has hurt the game from a viewer standpoint more than anything.  Even the fastest teams almost never snap the ball that quick, it just removes the threat that they could.

2.) Remove waivers...for players and coaches.  You transfer, sit a year.  You switch schools as a coach, you sit a year.  Obvious caveat if you were fired.

1. I don't like rules that change the rules in the last x minutes of a period.  Play by the same rules the whole game.  At least in regulation.

2. Sounds good.

NCAA Basketball
1.) Remove charges.  Coaching clearly teaching to take charges has changed the spirit of the rule.  You extend an arm, offensive foul.  You move on a screen, offensive foul.  You stand in the pain like a guy blocking a free kick instead of playing defense, no call.  It's your choice to defend that way, but if the offensive player can still finish through it, good for him.

2.) Go to NCAA baseball draft eligibility rules.

1. I am unclear of what you are advocating. To me, it reads as if you mean "defensive foul" where you have entered "offensive foul." If you are advocating a change that results in a guy who has position and is not in motion being charged with a blocking foul, then I disagree.

2. Sounds good.

NFL
1.) Get rid of illegal contact.  There is already PI and defensive holding, that's enough.  Passing has become too easy as it is, there is zero reason for this rule to exist.

2.) Not sure the exact mechanism, but QB salaries impact on the salary cap have made it so you either need a top 2-3 QB or a QB in his rookie contract to win it.  The worst thing you can have is a good QB, not on a rookie contract.  Stafford, Flacco, Dalton, Cousins?  You are screwed, and that seems messed up.  Even Brady has always taken less, which has somewhat negated the impact of his contract.

1. Agree.

2. Don't know enough to comment.

NBA
1.) Get rid of advancing the ball on a timeout.  It makes a late shot, but non-buzzer beater, meh, because the other team is going to get a solid response.

2.) Remove max contracts.  I like the fact that you can keep your own FAs if you are willing to pay the tax, prevents the amount of roster turnover of the NFL, but the max contract is what creates all these super teams.  If every team can only offer guys the same amount, then of course they'd rather go play with some other great players.  Let the Suns overpay for a guy if they want.

1. Eh, I'd make carrying the ball and traveling against the rules, at all times, as they once were.

2. Sounds reasonable.

MLB
1.) Ban shifts.  At least two infielders have to be on either side of second, and can't be any deeper than the back of the dirt.  The lack of balls in play starts here.  Shifts take away hard hit singles and doubles.  So guys swing for nothing but home runs, and are content to strike out, so the lack of action is striking.

2.) Salary cap and salary floor.  I was never as in favor of this, because I liked teams' ability to develop their own talent, but the recent trend towards guys being so good, so early, has sort of ruined it.  Teams milk guys on peanuts, which was ok when they then got paid, but that isn't happening anymore, because you can find another young cheap guy to fill the role.

1. I don't like it.  The cure for shifts is to hit or bunt the ball the other way.  Eliminating the DH would be my most-preferred change.  Alternatively, move the fences back to reduce the number of home runs.  Or, now that I'm really out in la-la land, make all body armor worn to the batter's box remain on the player while he's running the bases.

2. Don't know enough to comment.

NHL
1.) Honestly, nothing

2.) Same.  I wish I liked hockey more, because their free agent system is the best in sports, and I can't think of a single rule change

1. and 2. Sure. Whatever you say. 

Ah, got it.

I actually thought the name of this thread when I saw it in the board listing was "You are the sports car."  I was wondering if I had to choose between being, oh, a Jaguar E-Type or a 1967 Corvette with 327 f.i.

I like the DH,the fact is most pitchers approached hitting like a blindfolded kid swinging at a pinata.Same-same CWS I'm reading the rules and thinking what's it gotta do with a sports car

The problem is every other level has a DH now, so these kids have never hit, and now they have to against major league pitching?

At this point the NL has to go DH

The problem is every other level has a DH now, so these kids have never hit, and now they have to against major league pitching?

At this point the NL has to go DH

Aaaaaaaaaaggggggggh!
I can't prove it, but I'm sure that that sort of reasoning is how we have a nation of middle-aged adults talking like 1980s Valley Girls.

Like, you know?

Oh, fer shur.

Remember Kato Kaelin at the O.J. trial.

Every statement ended up sounding like a question?

Like the DH, ValleySpeak is like the Borg.  In the end, we must all be assimilated.