NCAA Rules Committee Proposals

[John K]

The NCAA Football Rules Committee took steps to further protect student-athletes by proposing a rule to eject players who target and contact defenseless players above the shoulders.

I would be a little leary of ejecting a guy from a game wrongfully, especially in the FCS where there is not a replay to confirm the call on the field.

To require teams to have either their jersey or pants contrast in color to the playing field.

I have wanted this one since EWU put in the pad. I do have a question though, and that is the same required of schools that wear green right now and play on grass or a green artificial surface?

I've always wondered about that too. Frankly, I think this whole issue is a bit overblown. If it's a problem at all, I think it's only because they let it get in their head. Hasn't BSU been wearing blue uniforms at home on their blue turf for about 20 years now, but it's only recently that people have started to make a big deal out of it?

For me, the red turf and red uniforms literally causes motion sickness...when I watch it on tv. That is no __it. I had to turn away and listen to the play by play. This was a few years back. The last time I watched a tv game from there when they could still wear the red uniforms there was snow on the field and I had no problems. Hope this proposal passes.

I have not seen one of these games on tv. When you are at the field, you get use to it, it does not bother you, even though you still keep saying "you know if they killed the screaching Beagle on there, nobody would notice."

That's what I thought too. I went to the game at EWU in 2011, expecting my eyeballs to be bleeding after spending 3 hours or more looking at the red turf, but by the end of the first quarter, I hardly even noticed it anymore. I agree though, that it's brutal watching games on TV on that stuff.

[Rich K]

Chadd Cripe is reporting that the NCAA has denied the proposal to disallow Boise and EWU to wear full color blind augmenting uniforms:

The Boise State football team will be allowed to wear its all-blue uniforms on the blue turf, the NCAA announced Thursday.
The Playing Rules Oversight Panel denied the Football Rules Committee’s proposal to require a team to wear jerseys or pants that were a different color than the playing field. The PROP cited concerns that the rule “did not enhance the image of the game.”
The Mountain West wrote a letter to the NCAA in support of Boise State’s tradition of wearing all blue. The league prohibited the Broncos from using the all-blue look for conference home games the past two years but had rescinded that rule as part of Boise State’s decision to stay in the league rather than join the Big East.

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Chadd Cripe is reporting that the NCAA has denied the proposal to disallow Boise and EWU to wear full color blind augmenting uniforms:

The Boise State football team will be allowed to wear its all-blue uniforms on the blue turf, the NCAA announced Thursday.
The Playing Rules Oversight Panel denied the Football Rules Committee’s proposal to require a team to wear jerseys or pants that were a different color than the playing field. The PROP cited concerns that the rule “did not enhance the image of the game.”
The Mountain West wrote a letter to the NCAA in support of Boise State’s tradition of wearing all blue. The league prohibited the Broncos from using the all-blue look for conference home games the past two years but had rescinded that rule as part of Boise State’s decision to stay in the league rather than join the Big East.

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Wow, I'm surprised on this one - almost smells of political influence!