I’m tired of the officials standing over the ball so teams can substitute. NU had to call a timeout because Penn St substituted late and their fat lineman walked over to the sideline. Teams can do that on every play if they choose. The rule needs to be changed! Someone is going to figure this out and take advantage of a dumb rule.
Rule needs changed!
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I guarantee that was on purpose. The DL starts on the field, reconsiders, goes back to the sideline, then back on the field, then the guy he's replacing looks all indecisive... burned 15 seconds. Agree, not sure why everyone doesn't do that all the time. Is there a certain number of seconds they have?
If the offense subs then the d gets a chance as well and the ref will stand on the ball until they are given that chance. Now, I did think it was quite odd when we had to call timeout because of it. I’m sure there is a delay of game rule in the d if they continue to be indecisive but not 100%.
The ref also has the option of resetting the play clock to 25 seconds, I believe
This happens all the time. The rule was intended to allow defenses to match up to the offense if the offense subs. Thing is most teams now substitute the defensive line in order to eat up as much time as they can, which makes the offense either take a delay of game or use a time out.
I believe on the play in question the Huskers subbed... PSU countered... and then we subbed on offense again, which gives PSU the ability to sub again
This is the first time I've ever read a thread about it. Probably not that big of a deal.
I thought that was completely on Nebraska being confused on offense and getting their subs in late. Every rule change in the last 10 years favors offense so I'm not getting bent out of shape about this.
BuckyBoys is absolutely right. They need to fix that rule. Make it so the offense can only sub in the first 5 seconds of the play clock and the defense in the next 5. After that their is no stopping the clock.
I saw this happen i think twice today, my immediate thought was why isn't there a rule that says if the offense has made their substitutions and are lined up but the d is taking too long then there needs to be either a stoppage in the play clock once the offense is set, or the D is penalized for delay of game
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Yes, we had to use 2 timeouts in the second half because of this. It was pretty frustrating.
It was because Nebraska was a debacle with their substitutions. The particular one in question by the OP...I thought Nebraska was getting exactly what they deserved on that play.
I agree the defense shouldn’t be allowed to Lolly gag around and 15 seconds burn off the play clock however I believe if you huddle the defense has to have their players in place
