The New Kickoff rule

Maybe they should make kickers kick with the ball on the ground (with a holder) rather than teed up. Wouldn't that result in shorter kicks, or not really?

 
VA Husker Fan said:
Maybe they should make kickers kick with the ball on the ground (with a holder) rather than teed up. Wouldn't that result in shorter kicks, or not really?
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I think the point of this, as in the NFL, is to diminish the amount of returners for player safety. KO are one of the most dangerous/exciting times for the players as they are exposed to others running full speed at them.

 
n.e.husker said:
VA Husker Fan said:
Maybe they should make kickers kick with the ball on the ground (with a holder) rather than teed up. Wouldn't that result in shorter kicks, or not really?
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I think the point of this, as in the NFL, is to diminish the amount of returners for player safety. KO are one of the most dangerous/exciting times for the players as they are exposed to others running full speed at them.
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Yet they add an incentive to not just boot it through the end zone b/c it will cost you 5 extra yards. The thinking behind this rule change doesn't click with me.

 
This is so dumb. Why don't they just do away with the kickoffs alltogether and start the game with the first offensive series? Or just get rid of contact and tie flags around their waists? Or even better, put all the players into those big gerbil balls so there's absolutely no chance of physical contact?! My father-in-law (a Kiwi) always gives me crap about how rugby is a real mans' sport because they don't wear pads and helmets. Rules like this make me wonder, and slowly make me think there won't be hitting and tackling in football in a few years.

 
I heard Kugler say that in a few more years we won't even recognize the game of football so many changes will have been made. Another dumb rule. Blah!

 
I understand the reasoning of moving the kickoff to the 35 yard line...I don't like it it, but I understand why the NCAA is making a change. What I don't get is moving the touchback to the 25 yard line? This just seems ridiculous to me.

I also understand the need for trying to make the game safer, but I will also argue that these players know when they sign up for this sport that it is a violent sport, and that injuries do happen...whether you're kicking off from the 30 yard line or the 35 yard line.

Over the last 10 years the sport which I grew up loving is slowly becoming watered down. *Sigh*.........I guess I am just starting to show my age.

 
Foppa said:
This is so dumb. Why don't they just do away with the kickoffs alltogether and start the game with the first offensive series? Or just get rid of contact and tie flags around their waists? Or even better, put all the players into those big gerbil balls so there's absolutely no chance of physical contact?! My father-in-law (a Kiwi) always gives me crap about how rugby is a real mans' sport because they don't wear pads and helmets. Rules like this make me wonder, and slowly make me think there won't be hitting and tackling in football in a few years.
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Great point! I find myself watching rugby on TV the few times I can because it is extremely fast paced and a can be brutal. How many rule changes has rugby made in the last few hundred years (minus adding pads and breaks in action to create football)

I know the professional rugby circuit in Europe is huge, do they face stupid stuff like this?

 
PaulCrewe said:
kicking off from the 35 now and placing touchbacks on the 25 instead of the 20
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