How are teams getting away with it? It's one of the main reasons I was unhappy with the World Cup, and it's frustrating to see in college football now. It's obvious the guy is faking. He's down on the ground one minute and back in the game one play later? Really? Pretty pathetic.
I saw it happen once during the Oregon/Stanford game. During the world cup, where they had a running clock it was much worse.
They get away with it because in college football the refs #1 priority is player safety. To me, it's cheating, but what can the refs do?
in Soccer the clock keeps running and the time gets added on after the 45 minutes... just thought you might like that info.
What should happen, is that if yougo down hurt, you should hve to miss a certain ammount of plays, or time. You go down with an injury, you sit 15 plays or an entire quarter. That would take care of it
I agree with that.. maybe not the amount of plays.. but in the "Spirit of looking out for the safety of a player" It would be wise to keep him/her out for a series of plays.. afterall they risk further injury if they keep coming back in... (I.e. Vontaze Burfict going out 36 times last week)
Yeah that was seriously bullshit. That needs to be shown to the NCAA and something needs to be done. I would say that a minimum of three plays should be missed if you leave the field because of an injury.
Burfict headbutt Katz and only got a penalty this week, and then he tried to throw a punch at one of our linemen and didn't even get a penalty let alone ejected. Granted, he missed horribly, but still.
AZ State did it to. Both losers BTW... you may get away with that shit... but knowing that you are cheating like that is not going to inspire your peak performance.
That's a great answer. Rep that poster! Now that I think about it, in the UT, ASU and Stanford game the turning points were very closely related to when the opposing players started faking injuries. Sort of like, "well, we aren't going to win with our talent, so we'll try and cheat to stop the momentum".
Exactly BP... and for elite athletes whose games are so much tied to instinct and reflex... when they start thinking about something else... the pace... faking injuries whatever... they are done. For guys who are as tough as nails... asking them to fake injuries like that has to be a devestating blow to their egos.
One thing nobody mentioned was how much it impacts the way the refs call the game. If you've recorded that game, look at the play where #44 faked an ankle injury to slow the pace down. Then when he ran out from the sideline on the next play, notice how the refs adjusted. I could see the refs looking at each other and getting upset about it (even the announcers got upset about it). And the refs immediately called some bailout play (like a personal foul or something like that) and it moved Oregon down and gave them a 1st down. Basically it changed the refs respect for Stanford after that and they weren't giving any calls to Stanford from there forward after showing them up like that. So in essence, the refs DID do something about it, and it really turned the tide of the game once the refs made sure Stanford didn't get another call.
Yeah, that's an interesting theory. The refs can't officially do anything about it, but they can call the game tougher on the cheating team. It would be interesting to keep an eye on that and see if it happens again.
