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podsox
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in a preseason experiment. hopefully the experiment turns into a new rule quickly
30 second shot clocks and 6 personal fouls per player. Make it happen, NCAA.
The test run is almost guaranteed success.
I've said it here before and I'll say it again, college basketball won't be infinitely better for it. The number of possessions will increase, but teams aren't going to have better possessions. Shooting will still be an issue, but people will point to scoring going up even a little.
If it's going to happen, then it's going to happen. But, I don't know I'm not all in.
with the amount of phantom fouls called in college I would like to see 6 personal fouls as well
I never understood why people have such a hard on about 6 fouls. If you think 6 is good for the NBA, you have to think 5 is good for the NCAA. 48 min, 6 fouls is the same thing as 40 minutes, 5 fouls. Not that I would ever encourage making rules decisions from the joke of a league the NBA has become.
Adding more personal fouls just gives them an excuse to call more questionable stuff, and puts less accountability on the refs.
Fast forward to ESPN in a few years and some analyst is making even more excuses for the refs. "Well, it was clearly a bad call, but since he's still got 7 more fouls to give it really won't impact the game." Screw that.
Bad calls should affect the game because calls (bad or good) are important. Trivializing the officiating misses the point entirely.
The problem isn't guys fouling out of games. That is just a symptom. So you don't fix it by making it harder for guys to foul out of games. You fix it by fixing the poor officiating in the first place.
Per minute played, the NBA and NCAA are the same. (1 foul for every 8 minutes of regulation game play)
If you look at it in terms of full shot clock possessions, then NCAA currently has more fouls to give per possession than the NCAA, even if they reduce the shot clock to 30 seconds.
the conferences and the ncaa have done nothing to fix poor officiating. I want to watch the best players in college on the floor not sitting on the bench half of the afternoon because they got 2 or 3 horrible calls called on them. it is basically common knowledge that the bozo officials are influenced heavily by home crowds and big name coaches. are u anti-replay as well?
nba refs>ncaa refs and it's not close