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In the ultracompetitive world of college football, it’s tough to get coaches to agree on anything. Rivalries, recruiting battles and differing agendas get in the way, blocking consensus.
But there they were in Chicago’s Downtown Marriott Magnificent Mile in late July, the 14 Big Ten coaches walking in lock-step over a new NCAA rule.
Beginning this season, Division I players are allowed to play up to four games without burning a year of eligibility. Under the old system, playing even one game, in most cases, would have cost the player a year.
“I’m fired up about that rule. There’s a lot of coaches in the country excited about it,” Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald said.
“If you can find someone who doesn’t think that’s a good rule, I’d love to speak to that person,” Maryland’s DJ Durkin concurred.
“It’s one of the best rules to ever be invented and brought to the NCAA, and we’re going to use it,” the Gophers’ P.J. Fleck gushed.
The coaches are giddy for a few reasons. First, it gives them roster flexibility. Say your left tackle turns an ankle and will miss a couple of weeks, you now can plug in a promising freshman to fill in briefly without burning a precious season. And it doesn’t matter when.
Coaches can mix and match which games they use a player — early, late, in a bowl game, consecutive or intermittent — as long as he doesn’t play more than four games...
http://www.startribune.com/a-rule-c...llege-football-coaches-agree-on-it/490077861/
But there they were in Chicago’s Downtown Marriott Magnificent Mile in late July, the 14 Big Ten coaches walking in lock-step over a new NCAA rule.
Beginning this season, Division I players are allowed to play up to four games without burning a year of eligibility. Under the old system, playing even one game, in most cases, would have cost the player a year.
“I’m fired up about that rule. There’s a lot of coaches in the country excited about it,” Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald said.
“If you can find someone who doesn’t think that’s a good rule, I’d love to speak to that person,” Maryland’s DJ Durkin concurred.
“It’s one of the best rules to ever be invented and brought to the NCAA, and we’re going to use it,” the Gophers’ P.J. Fleck gushed.
The coaches are giddy for a few reasons. First, it gives them roster flexibility. Say your left tackle turns an ankle and will miss a couple of weeks, you now can plug in a promising freshman to fill in briefly without burning a precious season. And it doesn’t matter when.
Coaches can mix and match which games they use a player — early, late, in a bowl game, consecutive or intermittent — as long as he doesn’t play more than four games...
http://www.startribune.com/a-rule-c...llege-football-coaches-agree-on-it/490077861/