Let the NCAA know what you think about the new clock rules

I had not considered how the clock changes could and likely will impact numbers and production for players.  It may not have much impact on sling-it-all-over-no-defense teams but in terms of grinding teams like Michigan it could have significant impact.  I simply don't see how it is possible for somebody like Corum to rack up the same yardage he did last year.

It is just bad and I wish they would consider rescinding it effective immediately.  I hated it the moment I heard about it. Nobody was asking for this change and it seems like a solution in search of a problem.

You know what we need? A good, old-fashioned peasant revolt. You know, when the serfs have finally had enough of the egregious abuses of the lords and the landed gentry and just clean house. It usually ends with the total slaughter of the peasants by well-trained and well-armed knights, but was often followed by important egalitarian reforms. Let's take one for the team, people! 

Michigan will have to change the approach they had last year and not be content to run into a brick wall for a half when teams are determined to take away the run, the games will have fewer possessions and they will open themselves up to more upset opportunities this way.

Thankfully, the ECU game seems to indicate they don't plan to take the same approach as last year.

The only thing that will change anything is if people stop watching.

It hasn't happened..... yet.  But I can't imagine we're that far off from it.  It's becoming hard to justify to myself spending 4 hrs on a Saturday watching what seems like 2 hrs of commercials just to see my favorite team beat a hapless minor conference team.  I've been a huge CFB fan for almost 20 years and even my interest is waning.  If Michigan wins a title this year, I've already been thinking of calling that the end of my fandom, ironically.  It'd be a good way to go out.

To corroborate this:

The total runtime of the Peacock replay of the ECU game --- which seems to exclude the times for commercial blocks --- is 2h, 33 min,  About 5 min of that was dedicated to pregame. 

they're just going to keep pushing it as far as they can until fans stop watching. they don't care if they ruin the game 

I think when someone insists on fixing something that isn't broke you gotta wrestle the wrench from them.

If fans bring attention to it on a nationally televised game, I think that the NCAA would be put in an very uncomfortable position. 

My idea was all the fans should delay entering the stadium until after the kickoff in protest of this asinine rule change. After kickoff, everyone enters and takes their seats.

Imagine an empty stadium at kickoff. That might generate some attention. 

In an earlier thread about the conference realignment, I made a half-joke about the Big10 swallowing up as many teams as it can, and then splitting into regional sub-Big10's. The teams in each region would compete within that region, have a few out-of-region crossover games, and then have a championship game (or some sort of tournament leading to a championship game) as a culminating event for the season, and then this Uber Big10 would set themselves up as a competing organization to the NCAA. Honestly, this is getting to be more and more appealing sounding, and the new clock rules are just another bit of evidence for that.

im less concerned about the commercials - i find that annoying, but whatever. more pee breaks. 

Im more concerned about the fact that the more possessions michigan gets, the better we do. we wear teams out. We pour it on in the 2nd half. If games are going to be shortened like this, one of our key strengths is mildly neutralized. Its a big deal against bad competition (as it helps increase the variability - think about playing wisconsin in basketball with the 35 second clock), and good competition that scores quickly (look at osu, maryland, maybe psu?)

I wonder what Vegas thinks?  Have they adjusted their numbers based on the way shorter games?

The clock rules are not set in stone, and there is no perfect number of possessions. Everything is arbitrary and has been changed over the years as the game and environment evolve. So I'm fine with whatever rules they want to go with - it's all made up and just a game, so do whatever. The NFL has a running clock for basically the whole game and it doesn't seem to impact the game in any material way.

The focus should be on the ad breaks - too many, too long, too often. A media timeout either side of a kickoff is an abomination and should be the first thing to go. Stop calling them "clock rule changes" and start calling them "TV advertisement accommodations." 

Through streaming we are now paying more directly for content than ever before (when we paid for cable but that didn't cover the full cost so also had to pay through ad service). Will one please offer a limited commercial broadcast? With corresponding limited timeouts during the gameplay?

Bless you.

Shouldn't our ire be more directed at the TV networks and the conferences who sign their agreements with those same TV networks?