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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: ELA on July 28, 2019, 04:43:17 PM
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Pick two rules, one gameplay, one system, you would change, for each sports you feel like
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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
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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.
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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
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Banning the shift is an interesting suggestion. It used to be rare and now if fairly common. I see times where a team needs a baserunner and the hitter can 90% lay down a bunt and get there. Bunt hard enough and you have a double.
I'm sure it's not easy to bunt a major league pitch.
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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.
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. ;)
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Re: NCAA basketball. I don't want to eliminate offensive fouls. You put a forearm out, that's a foul. You move on a screen, that's a foul. "Defender" tried to draw a charge instead of playing defense, I hate that call. Eliminate that. That's what I mean. I don't want to eliminate offensive fouls, I just want to eliminate charging.
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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.
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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.
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
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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
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I HATE the DL with extreme prejudice.
And aluminium bats.
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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?
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Gag me with a DH rule,fer shur
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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.
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Banning the shift is an interesting suggestion. It used to be rare and now if fairly common. I see times where a team needs a baserunner and the hitter can 90% lay down a bunt and get there. Bunt hard enough and you have a double.
I'm sure it's not easy to bunt a major league pitch.
Not bunting when a shift is on is stubborn/lazy.
Forbidding shifts is enabling stubbornness/laziness.
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I used to hate the DH, but now I just want both leagues to do the same thing - either both have it or both don't.
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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?
I'd be good with abandoning the DH, but you have to do it all the way down
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Not bunting when a shift is on is stubborn/lazy.
Forbidding shifts is enabling stubbornness/laziness.
Depends on the situation
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Hockey has the best draft system while preserving eligibility for players. It allows players to be drafted whenever and also allows them to stay in school after they're drafted. I wish all other sports would adopt it, and I don't understand why they don't.
Get rid of conference championship games and go to 13 regular season games, instead. This way, the Big Ten could even go to 10 conference games and schools could still get 7 home games with just 1 guarantee game (and 2 major non-con games) per year. Also make bowl eligibility 7 wins and cancel the bowl games that can't get two bowl-eligible teams (and reassign any teams with winning records to match each other).... Also, get rid of the playoff and go back to the pre-BCS system (or just have the top two teams after the bowls face each other).
For hockey get rid of off-sides. I've heard the arguments both ways, but I just don't really see the point of it. Another would be to increase the size of the nets (I play broomball and those games are still low-scoring, though I wouldn't have hockey nets that large.
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MLB
Play 144 games, get rid of divisions and wild cards. AL and NL, best of 7 LCS, WS best of 7. Pitch clock and batter stays in box*, rigid enforcement. (* limited exceptions).
NBA
Play 62 games: 4 divisions, get rid of conferences for playoffs seeding purposes, no East/West. Let high seeds pick their opponents until final of course.
NFL
16 games, no divisions, 2 conferences. Let high seed pick playoff opponent.
CFB, accepting the current 4 team playoff.
let top seed pick their opponent. Semis are a home game.
NHL, cut off 10 games, maybe 20. Go back to Wales and Campbell Conferences, with Division names (Adams and Patrick, Norris and Smythe)
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Why is 144 your magic number for MLB games, MH?
I've seen the argument to go back to 154--the number of games before the 1961 expansion--but not 144.
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I'm the czar of sports that's why. 154 is fine too, but me thinks leagues play too long, all of them. Specifically though, the season can begin in 2nd week of April and we will be done with it by Oct 15 or so.
There were a handful of seasons when there were 140 games played, of course there were a lot fewer franchises. These were mostly deadball era or even 19th C.
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agreed, baseball weather does not include snow
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get rid of wildcards on MLB and NFL
no need to bunt to beat the shift, hit to the opposite field
if you are not a good enough hitter to do that, grab some pine
manage your hitter, skipper
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I'd be good with abandoning the DH, but you have to do it all the way down
Right on, Brutha! All the way to Pee Wee ball.
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get rid of wildcards on MLB and NFL
no need to bunt to beat the shift, hit to the opposite field
if you are not a good enough hitter to do that, grab some pine
manage your hitter, skipper
I dunno,just win baby!I'd love to see the seasons shortened,the NFL doesn't need to be poking into Ground Hog Day.And MLB should be over a week by Halloween
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I'd be good with abandoning the DH, but you have to do it all the way down
Have to substitute that with throwing underhand to Pitchers :d030:
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Is the NBA still playing, or have they started up again?
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Have to substitute that with throwing underhand to Pitchers :d030:
And that's the issue. Pitchers have never been good hitters, but at least they used to hit their whole careers until the big leagues, and a lot of times they were the most athletic kids at their high school, and even college, if they went that route, so they frequently played the field on days they didn't pitch. So while most still weren't great, it was fine enough.
Now, with DHs down to high school, and the degree of specialization, some of these pitchers haven't hit since they were 13, and now have to hit major league pitching?
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just a heads up, a lot of these leagues i don't watch much if at all anymore. so take it with a heavy dose of salt.
mlb (don't watch)
- shorten season and have everyone play everyone at least 1 series. 2 divisions, 15 teams each, play everyone in your division a 3 game home series and 3 away. that's 90 games. then 1 3 game series for the other division. that's 135 games.
- not sure how, but speed up the game. limit pitcher swaps/game or something.
nfl
- either play a full 15 minute ot or go to some modified college ot rule. at least let each team have a chance with the ball. it's better now that it was, but not great still.
- i like ela's change on illegal contact.
nba (don't watch)
- call traveling. maybe it's changed, but when i did watch and big reason i stopped is cause they started ignoring traveling and players were running around all over the place like this sentence.
- shorten playoff season. not really # of games, but timeline. it takes 2+ months. that's almost a damn season length.
ncaa bb
- go to 4 qtrs, 15 min each. not sure why mens cbb is still on the half structure.
- agree with ela's draft idea.
ncaa fb
- if a coach leaves (whatever reason) players can leave without sitting, with exception that they can't follow coach (more to prevent coaches from poaching former schools than to limit players).
- do away with ejections for targeting. much to harsh when compared to similar type fouls (facemasks, clipping, horse collar, etc.). the fouls are to protect players and i'm 100% for that. but only 1 has the chance to get you kicked out of the game and it's more often than not a very subjective call. giving ref's too much impact on game, whether they want it or mean to or not. call the foul, keep playing. there are other, already existing rules that could/should cover a player being far too violent and needing to be ejected. flagrant personal foul being one, or committing 2 unsportsmanlike fouls.
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nba (don't watch)
- shorten playoff season. not really # of games, but timeline. it takes 2+ months. that's almost a damn season length.
IMHO, they need less teams in the playoffs. I don't watch NBA either. Well, I do, but only in the second round of the playoffs if my team is still alive.
Last I checked they had 31 teams and 16 of them make the playoffs. Thus, middling teams get in. To me, that makes the regular season meaningless.
I'm a Cleveland guy so I'm a Cavs "fan" but I don't view NBA the way I view CFB. I admit without hesitation to being a fair-weather fan. So here is how I approach viewing the NBA:
- Regular season: I don't care and don't watch. I don't miss anything. If my team doesn't make the playoffs I get to avoid watching ~60 games of bad basketball. If they do, I'll maybe see some later on, see below:
- First round of playoffs: I keep tabs on how my team is doing and if I happen to be free one night when they are playing I'll have it on in the background. I don't miss anything here either. The #8 and #7 seeds basically never upset the #1 and #2 seeds. If my team is a #8 or #7 seed they shouldn't have been in the playoffs anyway. The 3/6 and 4/5 series are better but still not terribly relevant.
- Second round of playoffs: If my team is in it, I watch every game. This gives me time to get acquainted with my team before the important games to come:
- Conference Finals: If my team is in, I watch every game.
- Finals: If my team is in, I watch every game.
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Now, with DHs down to high school, and the degree of specialization, some of these pitchers haven't hit since they were 13, and now have to hit major league pitching?
That's the point even if they did bat they still couldn't hit major league pitching.The automatic out gets old and irksome
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That's the point even if they did bat they still couldn't hit major league pitching.The automatic out gets old and irksome
The AL corrupted the game by introducing the DH. The fix should be to end the corruption rather than to spread it.
Plenty of NL pitchers can bunt, and some can even hit their weight.
The DH rule takes some of the drama out of baseball, especially concerning when to remove the pitcher, and whether or not to do a double switch.
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Meh,you say corruption I say excitement besides they could push themselves and get hurt running down those treacherous base paths
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That's the point even if they did bat they still couldn't hit major league pitching.The automatic out gets old and irksome
not many, but there have been a few
why not give them the proper respect vs their peers?
Shohei Ohtani is current
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Look if the numbers didn't bear it out more hurlers would be taking their cuts
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back before the DH more hurlers were taking their cuts
Warren Spahn, Don Drysdale, Walter Johnson, Don Newcombe, and don't for get the Babe
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I don't give a rat's ass about MLB, but I have always felt like the DH was a weird and unnecessary rule. Make the pitcher hit, like everyone else on the team must. Same rules for everyone, makes sense to me.
I completely understand that it would result in a "hole" in the lineup. Simple solution, develop pitchers who can hit.
Or if the offensive liability becomes THAT great in your opinion, sacrifice some top quality pitching for a better hitter who can still pitch some. I doubt many teams would go that way, but it's certainly an option if you value offense more than pitching.
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back before the DH more hurlers were taking their cuts
Warren Spahn, Don Drysdale, Walter Johnson, Don Newcombe, and don't for get the Babe
Don't forget Gibby.
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I don't give a rat's ass about MLB, but I have always felt like the DH was a weird and unnecessary rule. Make the pitcher hit, like everyone else on the team must. Same rules for everyone, makes sense to me.
I completely understand that it would result in a "hole" in the lineup. Simple solution, develop pitchers who can hit.
Or if the offensive liability becomes THAT great in your opinion, sacrifice some top quality pitching for a better hitter who can still pitch some. I doubt many teams would go that way, but it's certainly an option if you value offense more than pitching.
Agree. The logical extension of the DH rule is to go all the way and have two-platoon baseball.
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that could speed up the game, play offense vs defense on two fields at the same time
more going on for the attention deficient fans, no need to run on and off the field for half innings.
Just give each team 27 outs, total up the runs, and go home
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that could speed up the game, play offense vs defense on two fields at the same time
more going on for the attention deficient fans, no need to run on and off the field for half innings.
Just give each team 27 outs, total up the runs, and go home
This MIGHT actually make me watch MLB! :86:
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defense would probably deploy "the shift" more often
bunch of beer bellied home run derby types at the plate
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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.
This is the dumbest rule in all of sports. The most exciting play in basketball is the long pass and shot and/or mad dash up the court w/ a few sec on the clock and it doesn't exist in the NBA.
less timeouts pleassssseeeeee. or at least say only 2 TOs a quarter so the final minutes aren't so damn long.
NCAA Football
-you sign w/ a school you get 4 years tuition there.
-I could expand on this. A real way to help student-athletes or athlete-students and keep them as "amateurs" and not seem like greedy scumbags. For every year you stay at a school you get 1 extra semester of paid tuition for playing in D1 after no more eligilibity. This is a real benefit. Grad rates would skyrocket because you'll be 22-23 and have to take education more seriously after your NFL dream is crushed (not to mention its easier to study when you aren't getting your skull bashed in). And if you a good student, you get a masters. If you transfer you lose this benefit. The money is there to do this for all scholarships and if its not, tough, go play FCS.
NHL
-widen the rink, players are so much bigger than they were in the 70-80s
-2 min pen for spread eagling yourself on the ice to block a shot
-goalie pads could be curved, you know like legs are designed
NFL
-put sponsors on the jerseys, heck let unis look like NASCAR drivers, I don't care. anything to have less commericals. the AAF was more watchable for that reason alone.