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https://www.on3.com/news/ncaa-announces-college-football-rule-changes-to-combat-faking-injuries/

The NCAA is cracking down on football teams faking injuries with new timeout rules that would penalize teams that use the technique in a potential effort to slow a game down. On Thursday, the NCAA announced its Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved changes to injury timeout rules in football, beginning with the 2025-26 season.

Under the new rule, if medical personnel are forced to enter the field of play to evaluate an injured player after the ball is spotted by the officiating crew, the player’s team will be charged a timeout. If that team doesn’t have any remaining timeouts, a five-yard delay-of-game penalty will be assessed.

This injury timeout penalty was proposed by the NCAA Football Rules Committee earlier this offseason. It came after many within the college football community expressed concern that some teams were having players fake injuries to slow down the opposition’s momentum or to avoid taking a timeout.

The reasoning for the rule change now is to provide an immediate in-game mechanism that can potentially curtail teams from utilizing fake injuries. In the past, teams were required to send video of questionable injury stoppages to be reviewed by NCAA national coordinator of officials Steve Shaw, who would then contact the offending team’s conference if it was clear the injury was a ruse.

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4 minutes ago, OU Sucks said:

In the past, teams were required to send video of questionable injury stoppages to be reviewed by NCAA national coordinator of officials Steve Shaw, who would then contact the offending team’s conference if it was clear the injury was a ruse.

I bet they have an entire building dedicated to aggy tape. 

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7 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

They also need to make it so that once you go out for injury you cannot return until the next drive.

Yup.  They can call it a player safety issue if they like.

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Exactly. This rule won't do shit. All Kiffin has to do is have a dedicated coach and player communicate to go down as soon as a play ends. That player looks at that coach immediately at the end of every play and can easily go down before the ball is spotted if he gets the signal.

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1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Exactly. This rule won't do shit. All Kiffin has to do is have a dedicated coach and player communicate to go down as soon as a play ends. That player looks at that coach immediately at the end of every play and can easily go down before the ball is spotted of he gets the signal.

This….

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1 hour ago, Fondren & Main said:

They also need to make it so that once you go out for injury you cannot return until the next drive.

Next half.  It's a safety issue.  Make sure they are ok.  Gameplay stopped for your broken ass. Go get well. 
 

The fact that it's not sitting out the next half, just continues to display how un serious anyone is about solving this problem.

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If it’s to slow down a fast pace no huddle drive couldn’t the player just slowly limp off the field to slow it down without having the trainers go on the field? This proposal is one of the dumbest ways to address the issue. Will trainers hesitate to address legitimate injuries or look to the coach first for guidance? Sitting out the rest of the drive, and I’d add the next drive, makes far more sense and has player safety legitimacy. This sport is just in love with choosing bad options.

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1 hour ago, utee94 said:

Yup.  They can call it a player safety issue if they like.

Instead, they have a penalty being called because a player is hurt if no TOs left.

That's going to go over really well.  

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Maybe do like soccer, if the refs don’t believe you, just let the play go on with his ass flopping around like he just got shot. Of course the real answer is have some fucking integrity and don’t fake injuries but we know that won’t work.

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50 minutes ago, 'stache said:

If it’s to slow down a fast pace no huddle drive couldn’t the player just slowly limp off the field to slow it down without having the trainers go on the field? This proposal is one of the dumbest ways to address the issue. Will trainers hesitate to address legitimate injuries or look to the coach first for guidance? Sitting out the rest of the drive, and I’d add the next drive, makes far more sense and has player safety legitimacy. This sport is just in love with choosing bad options.

If the offense hasn't substituted, can't they snap the ball regardless of the defense readiness? The defensive player is not lying on the ground playing dead.

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Injured player must leave the field and may not return until change of possession occurs. Player requring assistance from sideline shall not return to the field until cleared by NCAA Game Physician. If player requires sideline assistance or exceeds normal play-clock time, the injured team may be penalized for Delay of Game or at its option use a time out if available. Delay penalty will be charged at a rate of five yards per minute of stoppage. If injured team is not in possession the ball, the team on offence will have the full 25-seconds of play-clock available and neither team may substitute once the ball is ready for play.

If any player leaves the field due to injury a second time, the player may not return to the field for the balance of the game.

The "half-the-distance" rule shall not be in effect, and if the Delay of Game penalty crosses a goal line, the result will be either a safety or a touchdown, depending on defensive or offemsive possession.

 

I think this substantially what I offered back after the No A/C, Two Dozen Cramps game with LSU a few years back.

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I've come out of a game three times for injury, and I don't think I've ever gone down with an injury before the ball is spotted.  Outside of displaced body parts, its pretty normal to think you got dinged and try to shake/walk it out.  Three steps in, you realize it's not getting better.

Edit: No.  There was one other.  Charley horse cramp, which you know right away what is going on.

Edit: Which actually makes it more funny that the injury always faked is a cramp.

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