re: Sign stealing in football should be allowed and encouraged

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There are too many limitations on how much time college athletes can spend on sports each week - there isn't enough time to allocate to changing and memorizing new signs.

Hire smarter players.

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No, the OC's will get smarter and come up with a way to not use the big sideline signs while still running hurry up no huddle and they'll make large personnel groups a thing of the past as well and then things will suck even worse. Or...we could just not steal signs.

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The NCAA football playing rules committee has been slow to embrace the use of coach-to-player communication technology because of concerns that it could provide a competitive advantage to schools based on budgets.

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Some schools can buy players, pay coaches $10,000,000 a year, fire those coaches, build facilities paved with marble and gold, and some schools can’t. Some schools pay schools to come play them for an easy win, others schools get paid to come get best.

Glad the NCAA is making sure school budgets aren’t unfairly impacting on field competition.

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Wouldn't they still have to use signs to signal in the play to the QB prior to the huddle?

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Either that or send a player in with the call or change the rules to allow QB to have headset in helmet.

But when it’s only the QB taking the signal, you can make your signals much more steal-proof. When the whole offense is taking the signals, they have to be simple enough for the dumbest person on the field to understand. A play call sheet on the QB’s wrist that can be modified game to game, or even on the fly during a game, is pretty steal-proof.