Surely this rule was made special for him (and Muschamp)
1. Coaches can now be ejected (Rule 9-2-6)
We've seen it in college basketball and other sports for years: a coach gets out of hand and gets sent home early by a referee. Yet in NCAA football, coaches were immune from unsportsmanlike conduct ejections.
Not anymore.
The NCAA Football Rules Committee has brought football in line with other intercollegiate sports and increased the accountability a coach has in maintaining decorum. Just as with a player, a coach is now disqualified if he collects two unsportsmanlike conduct fouls during a game.
He can yell and scream and storm onto the field once and stick around until the clock hits zeroes, but he's skating on thin ice.
Will officials pursue this action? That's yet to be seen. College football officials are trained to work with the coach and cater to his needs. Previously, officials could throw unsportsmanlike conduct fouls on the head coach and assess 15-yard penalties (though they rarely did even that). But will they actually eject a coach? The situation would likely have to be dire.
Still, coaches and schools can have some influence in determining if a specific official works their games or not. They don't have direct influence or remotely a final say, but a school's athletic director can make it an issue for an official to ref that school's games. Remember, it's the member schools that hire the conference commissioner, who then hires the supervisor of officials. Coaches can have an influence.
So, don't be looking for these to be handed out for some screaming or a thrown clipboard. A coach would have to be grossly outside the limits of acceptable behavior to receive two unsportsmanlike fouls and be disqualified.
However it's implemented, this is an important tool to avoid some of the displays we have seen at times on national television.
1. Coaches can now be ejected (Rule 9-2-6)
We've seen it in college basketball and other sports for years: a coach gets out of hand and gets sent home early by a referee. Yet in NCAA football, coaches were immune from unsportsmanlike conduct ejections.
Not anymore.
The NCAA Football Rules Committee has brought football in line with other intercollegiate sports and increased the accountability a coach has in maintaining decorum. Just as with a player, a coach is now disqualified if he collects two unsportsmanlike conduct fouls during a game.
He can yell and scream and storm onto the field once and stick around until the clock hits zeroes, but he's skating on thin ice.
Will officials pursue this action? That's yet to be seen. College football officials are trained to work with the coach and cater to his needs. Previously, officials could throw unsportsmanlike conduct fouls on the head coach and assess 15-yard penalties (though they rarely did even that). But will they actually eject a coach? The situation would likely have to be dire.
Still, coaches and schools can have some influence in determining if a specific official works their games or not. They don't have direct influence or remotely a final say, but a school's athletic director can make it an issue for an official to ref that school's games. Remember, it's the member schools that hire the conference commissioner, who then hires the supervisor of officials. Coaches can have an influence.
So, don't be looking for these to be handed out for some screaming or a thrown clipboard. A coach would have to be grossly outside the limits of acceptable behavior to receive two unsportsmanlike fouls and be disqualified.
However it's implemented, this is an important tool to avoid some of the displays we have seen at times on national television.
