[quote="Mario" post=336918][quote="redken" post=336893][quote="Mario" post=336869][quote="Beast of the East" post=336864][quote="Mario" post=336848]This should be good, you can't foul out.[/quote]
NCAA should go to 6 fouls allowed per game.[/quote]
Totally agree, this will ensure the best players on the team will be on the floor, which I think makes the college game better.[/quote]
The Big East tried that back in 1989-90, 1990-91 & 1991-92 and it was disastrous: games got uglier and longer because of the additional whistles being blown. Play got so ugly that CBS viewership for BE games took a big hit.
As for "best players being on the floor," if a player constantly fouls out, he should improve his game: he should adjust to the rules of game; the rules of the game shouldn't have to adjust to him. Some pundits have even called for doing away with fouling out altogether. Truth is fans are going to lose interest in, say, a Duke-UNC game because one or two of their favorite players have fouled out: they'll continue to root for their team just as passionately -- as will TV viewers. Regarding Clark, whom I've repeatedly praised and when needed, defended: maybe if CM and his staff would've gotten off their butts and recruited suitable backups, he wouldn't have been forced to guard bigger and stronger players as well as log major minutes, which typically resulted in his giving fouls.[/quote]
Interesting about this being tried before, I didn't know that. How about this angle, perhaps the refs should allow the players to play...haha. Back in the day where I grew up in East NY Brooklyn, if you weren't bleeding, it was not a foul. But seriously, they call way to many fouls.[/quote]
If you watch some video of the Knicks of Xavier McDaniel, Charles, Oakley, etc, it's unbelievable that so much brutal contact was allowed with no fouls called. It even looks worse than I remembered it.
I hate that 2 first half fouls puts a guy on the bench, and early second half 3rd puts him on the bench, etc.
I would be all for refs letting incidental contact at halfcourt or in the backcourt or away from the ball go. Blocking fouls and offensive fouls should be no more than 1/2 a foul because most of the time they get it wrong anyway.
My other pet peeve is that with 3 refs, they are very poorly trained or at the least do not execute working as a team. They all watch the ball and not feet or what's going on away from the ball. Often these older guys are challenged to beat the ball up the court and the trailing ref runs ahead of the ball in the backcourt and misses what is happening in his rush to be in position. All in all, too many refs suck, and some have rabbit ears and let a griping coach or player influence calls against their team. It would be interesting if refs wore earplug and called a game based on what they saw and not heard. It would likely reduce the home court advantage.
