I understand the importance of player safety but these targeting rules seem a little ridiculous. Do you think the rules need to change regarding targeting? If so, what should they be? Feel free to add to the discussion.
Poll: Targeting Rules
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Probably since they're trying to improve the safety of the game, they should just make two tiers for targeting (one for obvious and intentional targeting - 15 yards + ejection, and another for incidental contact - just 15 yards).
My personal preference is just flag obvious and intentional targeting (15 yards + ejection) and don't flag incidental helmet contact though.
My personal preference is just flag obvious and intentional targeting (15 yards + ejection) and don't flag incidental helmet contact though.
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I'm baffled as to why nothing's been done yet. They need to institute two degrees of the penalty like they do with facemask penalty.
I'm baffled as to why nothing's been done yet. They need to institute two degrees of the penalty like they do with facemask penalty.
I put 15 yards and no ejection just because I don't have confidence they will get it right any way they call it. If they can't get what targeting even is, I don't know how they will get the severity correct either.
Eliminate it all together. Football is a contract sport.
My preference would be to go a similar route that the NFL does. Just call 15 yard un-necessary roughness penalty. If it isn't obvious during the game, don't call it.
Half of the time, the commentators on TV get the replay wrong anyways.
Half of the time, the commentators on TV get the replay wrong anyways.
Yeah, I was between the two.
In theory I support having a targeting 2 that includes an ejection, but it would have to be done properly to ensure only the most egregious examples get an ejection.
If they would have called spearing ever, It would have solved 80-90% of this.
The more layers you put into the rule, the more inconsistency there's going to be. The NCAA isn't going to back off the player safety stuff and it's going to be imperfect no matter what they do.
Leave it alone.
Leave it alone.
Overall, I the problem is the consistency of the call. If they call it consistently, then fine. But when it seems to noticeable change from game to game, that's an issue.
It’s crazy how the auto ejection part hasn’t been addressed yet. Wonder if it’s just a fear of lawsuits or just a general inflexibility
The fact there is no difference between accidental H2H contact and launching into someone head first is a problem.
Might be too much groundwork but call it 15 yards and then have some officiating crew divvy out suspensions for the next game if they want to keep that as a deterrent or w.e. I never got why that part had to be decided in the 2 minutes directly after the hit.
I to am an Petras fan, your to dumb too recognize there ability too grow QBs. Petras four Heisman!
Well that makes zero sense.
Having a level of flagrant 1 and 2 may help with the consistency if done right.
Refs know they're ejecting a guy if they call it right now, so its such a brutal hammer to drop it gets inconsistent. Ironically that might make the game less safe if it results in targeting being called less than it should be (which we can see probably happened during the Baylor game).
If we had F1\2, we would probably have more consistency but also more F1 getting called.
Also, if we had F1\2 I think we could probably get rid of booth reviews for most targeting calls (just review the ejections to confirm the level is appropriate).
I'd like a third category: incidental or unavoidable contact. No penalty. Freyler's would be a textbook example of that.
