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In college, the hash marks are much further apart, and the kickers aren't near as good as those in the NFL.
I would love to see a rule change in college football that if a team is lined up to kick a field goal and the defense calls a time out, the kicking team would be permitted to have the refs move the ball along the line of scrimmage to any point between the hash marks. It wouldn't cost any more time in the game, since it could be done during the timeout. and it might actually speed up the game if it keeps them from burning a time out in the first place.
That's an interesting idea. Yesterday for the first time I saw a team use all three timeouts to "ice" the kicker at the end of the game. They ended up making all of them 30 second time outs.
I think there should be a rule that if you are going to call a time out on a FG it has to be taken before or at the time the referee signals the ball ready for play. That would keep this nonsense of calling time outs right before the snap from occurring over and over again where the kicker kicks it after the play has been blown dead.
I thought there was a rule where the defending team couldn't take back-to-back timeouts on a field goal attempt otherwise they'd get a delay of game penalty. Did they get rid of that??
I thought there was a rule where the defending team couldn't take back-to-back timeouts on a field goal attempt otherwise they'd get a delay of game penalty. Did they get rid of that??
Never heard of that being a rule in the first place. As I said, it was Northwestern that took three time outs in a row at the end of the Nebraska game to ice the kicker but they were all made into 30 second time outs. Usually you get two full time outs and one 30 second time out per half.
I thought there was a rule where the defending team couldn't take back-to-back timeouts on a field goal attempt otherwise they'd get a delay of game penalty. Did they get rid of that??
That is certainly a rule in the NFL.. I don't know about college.
In the NFL, back to back timeouts to ice a kicker earns a 15 yard unsportsmanlike penalty.
Has anyone ever looked at the odds when icing? How many were missed on the first attempt vs made on the second and vice versa?
Has always seemed to me that icing doesn't work.
I would think that the second attempt would be better because rather than giving the kicker time to stew, it gives him a chance to think it through, settle down and be calmer on the attempt.
Has anyone ever looked at the odds when icing? How many were missed on the first attempt vs made on the second and vice versa?
Has always seemed to me that icing doesn't work.
I would think that the second attempt would be better because rather than giving the kicker time to stew, it gives him a chance to think it through, settle down and be calmer on the attempt.
Hard to say, because most of the time they don't kick the first time, when timeout is called.
That's an interesting idea. Yesterday for the first time I saw a team use all three timeouts to "ice" the kicker at the end of the game. They ended up making all of them 30 second time outs.
I think there should be a rule that if you are going to call a time out on a FG it has to be taken before or at the time the referee signals the ball ready for play. That would keep this nonsense of calling time outs right before the snap from occurring over and over again where the kicker kicks it after the play has been blown dead.
I agree they need to do something to stop that.
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