15-yard PI in college; and outdated rule?
The way college football has changed toward the pro model, this seems like a rule that needs to change. It's cost us multiple times this year, OSU, TCU, where DB's have tackled our WR's deep in the red zone and we get 15yds out of it. Maybe it's benefitted us too, but seems like a get-out-of-jail-free card for the DB's. Not exactly sure why the rule exists in its present form, anyway, as it's the most asymmetric rule in the book. Even dumber is that the NCAA rule is the 2-yard line if it happens in the end-zone on throw inside the 15, while the NFL is the 1 yard-line. Both should be the one-inch line.
January 2nd, 2023 at 12:38 PM ^
Not until CFB has professional refs. The current asshats would fuck it all up. That reminds me. . . Fuck John O'Neil.
January 2nd, 2023 at 12:47 PM ^
I hate the NFL rule. You can “drive” 50 yards just by heaving it, have your WR initiate contact and then dive. No thanks.
January 2nd, 2023 at 12:49 PM ^
Why should the offense be rewarded the exact same for NOT making a play as if they made it?
Secondly, all those burned defenders tackling guys down the field. How about the QB make a good throw to where the burned defender is never in the picture?
January 2nd, 2023 at 1:08 PM ^
The way college football is changing so much, maybe that 15 yd PI will go to the way the NFL does it, sooner vs later.
January 2nd, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
I think PI should stay the same, but there is one rule I want to add: fumbling out of bounds should be a ten-yard penalty on the offense.
January 2nd, 2023 at 2:28 PM ^
Why? There's no advantage in doing it as it is.
January 2nd, 2023 at 1:34 PM ^
No. This is the worst rule in the NFL. Many probably incomplete passes end up being 40 yard plays. The way college does it is fine, not the other way around.
January 2nd, 2023 at 2:35 PM ^
I don't know, if anything the game is so heavily tilted towards WRs and the passing game these days that it feels like the college rule is the better of the two.
January 2nd, 2023 at 2:54 PM ^
Definately not. I hate the spot foul in the nfl.
January 2nd, 2023 at 5:33 PM ^
I agree the rule needs to change.
The argument that it shouldn’t be changed because the refs suck is ridiculous.
January 2nd, 2023 at 8:19 PM ^
Well they players aren't as good either (and there are a lot more of them...and the skill range is MUCH wider)
The NFL is 32 pro teams.
College Football is 131 and only a small handful have pro DBs.
January 2nd, 2023 at 8:18 PM ^
I think it should be 15 yards.
But it's time to look at a number of rules, so this shouldn't be off the table.