Academy Award-winning actor Joe Pesci, as Vinny Gambini in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny, famously asked about his myriad troubles, but in more colorful language: “Let me see, what else could we pile on? Is there any more (colorful) we could pile on the top … Is it possible?”
Forgive new Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer if he had a similar reaction on Friday when the NCAA Football Rules Committee proposed changes for the coming season, including coach-to-player helmet communications that will fundamentally change the way plays are signaled for both offense and defense. Let’s review the newness for DeBoer:
New city, new boss, new conference, new program, new culture, new players, new coaching staff, new playoff format. What else could possibly be piled on?
New rules, of course.
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The proposal is expected to get rubber-stamp approval from the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel in about six weeks. Other changes coming this fall: the two-minute warning, and the use of tablets during games. All three of those proposals would align college football with the NFL. But it’s the helmet communication that stands to have the greatest impact on the game, and DeBoer wasted no time on Monday trying to get his staff and team used to it. Alabama had “a couple quarterbacks” using the technology during the Crimson Tide’s first spring practice on Monday, he said.
“I haven’t heard any feedback yet. I think early on, a couple times it was hard to hear one way or another,” DeBoer added. “I don’t think it was because it was too soft, I think it was too loud. We should be able to test it in our stadium at some point.”
The rule will allow not only in-helmet communication…
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Publish date : 2024-03-05 01:28:21
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