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Sources: College football leaders nearing adoption of helmet communications
In a long-expected move, administrators are expected to finalize a recommendation for the adoption of a player-to-coach helmet communications system.
They are listening to the customers, people want this to happen. Makes the games more fun as this should help out offenses a ton and should result in more points scored overall.
Why? What is the purpose of the two minute warning other than more commercials? I think that’s the number one thing the NFL should get rid of. What’s next, a TV timeout every four minutes?
It's part of the drama of a close game. I love it, and I think most will love seeing it in college.
In late August I would tell my wife “see you in February.” But now my son likes football as much as I do and the whole Swifty thing made my wife and daughter into casual nfl fans!
Since they still stop the clock after first downs in the final two minutes I don’t think the two minute warning is needed. The whole field is still open if you make first downs.
But every thing that they have done has reduced actual game time while lengthening broadcast time. Once upon a time, every first down and every out of bounds play resulted in the stoppage of the game clock. A two minute warning is another way to extend broadcast time to bring in more revenue.
How does a commercial break add to the drama of a close game? I don't know the history of why the NFL added it, but I can't think of any logical reasons for a planned game stoppage other than to sell ads, which obviously we as fans don't give a crap about.
It started back when officials kept the time, so they could make sure the players knew how much time was left…talk about an antiquated rule that’s not needed anymore.
I know this was tongue in cheek but there's truth in what you say. Fans that I know don't really care about the length of watching a game they care a lot about. The suits like to state that the problem is that games are too long which isn't true, that isn't the root cause of any problem. The problem is that there are too many stoppages for ads and those stoppages are too long. The changes to reduce game time aren't really about the fans, it's all about making the TV schedules more predictable to optimize TV game schedules and corresponding advertisement and revenue planning, that's it.
And college football isn’t nearly as bad as college basketball in terms of stoppages….too many time outs, too many video reviews, basically giving an extra timeout every time a player fouls out….nothing worse than seeing a close game with two minutes left and realizing both teams have almost all of their timeouts…you know you’re looking at another 20-30 minutes to play two.
