What rules should be changed???

[freedom78]

hey, what the hell, just thought I'd think outside the box a bit.   

I've honestly always thought something similar about football, in terms of spots.  A field w/ sensors and a ball that triggers them?  Probably not, but maybe someday.

[freedom78]

Having just skimmed the first four pages of this thread, I'm not sure how this obvious "rule" change escaped us:

Uh...no more BCS!

Here's an interesting fact:

On November 10th, Ohio State, then #1 in the BCS, lost to Illinois, and subsequently fell to seventh in the BCS.  As the discussion began about which teams should be BCS #1 & #2 and, thus, have a shot at the national title, the fine folks in Division III began their 32 team playoff, of which four teams remain, in what has to be an obviously superior means of choosing a national champion.  As they say when a team is upset, "that's why you play the games."  So if settling it on the field is such a big part of our football mentality, why the Hell is the national championship decided by the opinions of coaches and sports writers (and computers!)? 

An eight team national championship would be all too easy to accomplish, and could preserve the bowl structure.  The four main bowl games (Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange) are the national quarterfinals...simple enough.  Winners advance to the national semi-finals, and two advance to the national final.  Keep that in mind the next time some pro-BCS guy whines about maintaining the bowl system...it's so easy to do.  In fact, these bowls could maintain their traditional alignments.  Pac-10 and Big-10(11) champs in the Rose Bowl, a Big 12 team in the Orange Bowl, SEC champ in the Sugar Bowl...and so forth. 

There are only 11 conferences (and a few non-aligned programs).  If you give six spots to the champions of the "major" conferences, that leaves two for at-large bids.  Or, even better, you invite all eleven conference champs, and five at-large.  Either is far superior to this BCS nonsense.

[Axl4Prez2004]

2 things that make perfect sense and would be fantastic changes:

College Football playoff scenario similar to Freedom's suggestion, and,

a non-corrupt ranking system and fight schedule under 1 unified belt in boxing.  how cool would that be?

Both will never, ever, ever, ever happen because of greed.  Oh well.   

[AbominableHoman]

NFL. The limited amount of contact allowed on receivers. And the bullshit "calling a timout before a field goal", that shit is plain retarded.

[Loaded NightraiN]

And the bullshit "calling a timout before a field goal", that shit is plain retarded.

No way... Its great stragety... If it works, it gives a team new life, and totally kills the momentum of the team who misses

[Axl4Prez2004]

hey I've got an idea, if 1 timeout ices the kicker...2 would ice him even more!  I'll go tell Joe Gibbs to do this.