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The officials are told in the rule book to protect the player if there is any question about an injury. Also, by the wording, fake injuries do not "delay the officials from making the ball ready for play". That rule is for not allowing the ball to be retrieved, or interfering with the...

The rule book says that injured players are given full protection under the rules. It also says that when in doubt the officials must give that player protection. There is no mechanism in game to punish someone for a fake injury. Even if there was, the officials would not want to. A guy...

By rule, they cannot.

That is my reason for being a rule/law and order person. You want laws and rules to say exactly what they are intended to say. You want people to obey the rules/laws exactly as written. If you don't do that, then rules/laws are spongy things that mean whatever the people following and...

What penalty would they call if they did throw a flag? They are specifically restricted from deciding if an injury is real or not. The refs don't decide to not throw the flag, they are not allowed to throw a flag. There is no rule infraction that a ref can legally call.

I don't think they are actually allowed to investigate injuries in game. Even if they could, I would not if I were an official. Officials are not medical professionals. Even if one of the officials is doctor, the have not have an opportunity to medically examine the player to know. Suppose...

I thought I answered that. It is not OK to try to intentionally injure players. (As long as our definition of "injure" is the same.) Teams and defensive linemen want to get to the QB early in the game so that he is thinking about hits and is sore later in the game. They don't want to cause...

With the rule that allows defensive substitutions, if the offense substitutes, any offensive substitutions need to happen before about 20 seconds on the play clock. The defense is supposed to be able to decide whether or not to sub, select players to sub, send those players in, those players...

Well there is the "report" that bountygate was a cover up for an opiod ring. Most players/coaches/fans want players to hit big and sting the other players. Very few want other players to be actually injured. Even Lawerence Taylor was shocked and immediately called for medics when he hit...

I am not in favor of faking injuries. I am in favor of changing the rules so that it doesn't happen. I am not in favor of GT unilaterally changing the rules for GT only. That is not anything like trying to intentionally injure a player. If it was found out and documented that a coach...

The rules specifically say that the officials cannot attempt to determine if an injury was real or fake. So by the rules, it is not unsportsmanlike conduct. It can't even be investigated to see if it was unsportsmanlike conduct. I understand your desire for the rules to say that it is...

The NCAA rules basically say there is no punishment for faking an injury. You are totally misunderstanding my position. I am not in favor of using this tactic. However, it is the current rule, the current enforcement of the rule, and the current way that the rule is being used across college...

I said it isn't a perfect analogy. There was a lot of moral outrage about corporations operating in such a way as to exactly follow the tax law as written to avoid paying a large percentage of taxes. The public was not upset about the way the laws were written, they were upset that large...

I am in general a rules and order type of guy. I think that rules/laws should be written specifically to do specifically what they are intended to do. That way everybody can understand, and everybody can follow the rules/laws. I have tried to think of an analogy, but I can't think of one...

If you shove someone at the grocery store because you want to get to your wife to ask a question, is that an excuse against the potential assault charge? And I don't buy that he didn't know who it was. If he had shoved an official to talk to his coach, would that be OK? I guess it isn't a...

Kiffin is already pushing the boundaries. Chains break when GT has a big offensive play, and they have to get the bakup chains. Takes about 5-10 minutes. Then later in the game when GT has another big offensive play, the backup chains break, and they have to go back to the "repaired" original...

Why not just spot every team we play a TD before the game begins? We can be the good guys of college football. UNC did this when we were on offense today. If we don't do this just out of a sense of morality, then our opponents have an advantage. I am all for changing the rules so that it is...

The one solution that I have seen proposed is not allowing an injured player to return until the end of the series. If a DL who was going to rotate out fakes an injury, he wouldn't be able to rotate back in a couple of plays later. That would take care of the way it is being exploited now. I...

I just posted my comment at about the same time you did. Is it "OK"? No. Is it necessary? Yes. North Carolina did the same thing in the game today. Do you want to concede an advantage to them over us? I say get the rule changed so that nobody can do it. Every single team we play this...

I understand thinking that fake injuries are bad for the sport. However, I do not understand the thought that GT shouldn't do it when it isn't against the rules and all the teams we are playing do it to us. The rules have been skewed heavily towards the offense in the last few decades. Not...