CFB: Solution to Fake Injuries on Agenda at AFCA

I have to imagine a player running on the field and falling down prior to playing a snap would result in a flag

Seems like a logical solution to prevent it in game. Although it’s usually obvious when they are “faking” it, there’s really no way to go back & review and then penalize them for it

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I wish we paid officials better, and got a better officiating product, because there needs to be a couple of penalties with massive official discretion and cut down on the amount of "rules" we have.

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My favorite part of college football is we have two teams battling with tens of millions of dollars invested in each program


And we leave it in the hands of the boat salesman who makes $90,000 a year but refs as a part time gig

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I don't know what the answer is, but this probably isn't it.

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why isn't that it? If you need medical attention on the field, you're probably too hurt to come back in a play later

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where a players gets wind knocked out of them,

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you can get to the sidelines if this is what happens to you and not need to stop play.

This will speed the game up tremendously. Players who can get off the field under their own power, will get off the field. We won't need to holdup the game 10 minutes for them to sit out one play because they got a "cramp"

Just allow defenses to sub.

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did you ever play organized football?
ever rolled an ankle?

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As a coach of mine told us once. "If the game stops so we can take you off the field, then you won't be going back. You can stretch on the sideline. They can tape you on the sideline. They can put a shoulder or finger back in place on the sideline. If you stop the game then that means you are injured and not hurt, and I'm not playing an injured player."

An injury timeout is for an injury, not a hurt. Get off the field, get treatment, and then get back out there and help your team. If you are the cause of an injury timeout then sitting the rest of the drive at minimum should be fine since you are injured.

Also there is a much easier fix that doesn’t change the game

$500,000 fine for the head coach for every injury that’s deemed fake after the game

After 3 fines, it goes to $1,000,000 per fake injury.

shite would stop in a hurry

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Also there is a much easier fix that doesn’t change the game $500,000 fine for the head coach for every injury that’s deemed fake after the game After 3 fines, it goes to $1,000,000 per fake injury. shite would stop in a hurry

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Also make it a reviewable play. And have a camera set up to monitor the sideline. Any time there is a signal to fake the coaches get fined anytime a player does this






They are out for the rest of the game




This would be an example of the coaches getting fined AND the player out the rest of the game



Officials aren’t going to call it in the heat of the moment because the last thing they need is the liability of saying a kid fakes an injury.

But stuff like this where it’s clear?


Gotta get that out of the game

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Here's an interesting discussion point in Charlotte at the AFCA convention to slow feigning injuries: Any injured player would be sidelined the rest of the drive. Coaches could use a timeout to reinstate player.

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Well I guess Dellinger really doesn't read Tigerdroppings. He acts like it's a novel idea. Every board has been saying this is a potential solution for the last few years.