Comments on: Football rules favor offenses; can steps be taken to create more competitive balance?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:42:18 +0000

The NFL has rules that favor the offense even more than college football does. One of them is not being able to hit the receiver after he is five yards downfield. In college you can hit the receiver anywhere on the field until the ball is in the air. But if you watch Big XII games they seem to play by the NFL rules and are even more restrictive. Do you ever see the defense play man to man with the corners jamming the receiver on the line of scrimmage let alone bumping him down field? So, instead of complaining about the rules and use the ones you have. And you are wrong…..in college the defense can hit the receiver anywhere on the field. It is in the NFL they cannot hit them beyond five yards. But you would never know that watching a Big XII game. The main reason you are seeing such huge scores is because of the HIGH SCHOOL rules changes. The main one was allowing year round 7 on 7. This has allowed the passing game to be developed more quickly by quarterbacks and receivers. Look at when scores started rising with dominate passing attacks and when more states started allowing the year round 7 on 7 games.

By: Ted Johnston

Ted Johnston — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:32:48 +0000

Do not allow OL to grasp defenders jersey between the sholdes when blocking. Call holding when the hand or arm extendes to the side of the defender.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:14:11 +0000

Mike Stoops just pointed out the major flaw in the OU offense. He stated “I think you’re seeing — anytime the quarterback can handle the ball in the shotgun, where he can fake the run and pull it … I think the quarterback run game is always the difference.” What is one of the things missing in the OU offense? That is the quarterback run game. There isn’t one. Other than bringing in the Belldozer package there will never be one and that doesn’t really count because it is only used in short yardage run sitations. OU has become a zero dimensional offense. They don’t have an offensive line that can pass block to give Landry Jones the time to find an open receiver and they can’t run block to open holes for the backs. They also have a defense that can’t defend against either the run or the pass. They cannot get a pass rush and they cannot stop the run. So, it really doesn’t matter about the rules. OU doesn’t have the players to use the rules that are there. Also, everybody plays by the same rules. So if everyone knows what the rules are the best coaches are the ones that use those rules to their advantage. That is one of the reasons Bob Stoops needs to clean house on the coaching staff and bring in young fresh minds.