Nothing too exciting this year

Good:
- Officials can only review goaltending or basket interference in the last two minutes of a game (unless challenged)

Fine:
- Coaches can now challenge a call at any time (OOB, basket interference/goaltending, restricted arc)
- Longer continuation on shots: "an offensive player who ends his dribble going toward the basket and absorbs contact from the defense will be permitted to pivot or complete the step the player is on and finish the field goal attempt. Currently, players are credited with field goals only when they are fouled while shooting the basketball.
- A nut shot can be a flagrant one foul now instead of either just a common foul or a flagrant two.

Dumb:
- OOB calls are now not reviewable unless challenged

I think we need fewer and faster reviews but this is too extreme because now a blatantly clear OOB call can't be reviewed unless challenged and you can only challenge if you have a timeout left and haven't used it earlier in the game. That's way too far of a course correction from spending five minute zooming in on players fingernails to see if they grazed a few atoms off the ball.

Looking forward to seeing the players do the "review it" hand motion 1000x/game, even for things that can't be challenged.

Buzz is going to spend at least 50 hours this summer trying to figure out some kind of big brain strategy on the reviews even though it's obvious that the only strategy is not to challenge anything until the last minute or so of the game.

Seven Costanza said:

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Looking forward to seeing the players do the "review it" hand motion 1000x/game, even for things that can't be challenged.

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They did it constantly this season even before challenges.

He's currently writing a letter to the Maryland AD asking to hire another assistant that's only responsibility is to call challenges

bobinator said:

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I think we need fewer and faster reviews but this is too extreme because now a blatantly clear OOB call can't be reviewed unless challenged and you can only challenge if you have a timeout left and haven't used it earlier in the game. That's way too far of a course correction from spending five minute zooming in on players fingernails to see if they grazed a few atoms off the ball.

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I see your point, but I'd rather have fewer reviews than more

We went all this time without any reviews so coaches will just need to be smart about saving challenged for the really crucial plays

I guess they could have given each coach an additional challenge for just the last 2 minutes of the game, and if you had no more timeouts and lost the challenge the other team gets charged with a team foul if the other team isn't in the double bonus yet, or if they are then they get a foul shot, or maybe they get another challenge added on to their total or they get an extra timeout or something

taylorswift13_ said:

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He's currently writing a letter to the Maryland AD asking to hire another assistant that's only responsibility is to call challenges

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We laugh, but if Jimbo had an assistant on the sideline that advised him on when to call timeouts during his tenure we probably win a couple more games.

I legit think every football coach, but especially the ones who call plays on one side of the ball or the other, should have someone on staff who's in charge of in-game strategy decisions. It's far too complicated and far too valuable.

I think disputing every decision is a form of entitlement. So I approve fewer replays even if some calls end up being "wrong." One presumes conference offices will lean in if it gets bad. And in the SEC we can count on them muffing plays!!!

What I'd do to improve game flow is a series of small things:

• Ban teams from creating a second bench on the court. No bringing out chairs and setting up a little conference room in the middle of the court. Either meet on the bench or stand. Right now it adds even more time to long media timeouts to get the chairs out there, get them back, mop the court from where everyone was standing around, etc.
• Stop taking both teams off the court for reviews except in the case of technical/flagrant reviews where temperatures might be running hot and we need to cool things down. The actual reviews sometimes don't take that long, but the refs get both teams to the benches and then the coaches use them like a timeout and the players linger over by the bench. What would help with this is...
• Have a fourth official for the postseason who sits at the table - This would be ideal for all games, but I know adding a fourth official would be extremely expensive overall. But in the postseason tournaments this official would just sit at the table and do the reviews themselves. If a call is close, they signal in that they're looking at it, they get like 30 seconds to look at it from a couple angles, if they can't see anything obvious then we just stick with the call on the court and move on. If they want to reverse the call they can call over another official to make sure they agree or whatever.
• Coaches get 10 seconds to replace a fouled out player and if they try to huddle up during that time it's a technical foul.

At the heart of all of these is that we need to move to giving coaches less control of the game flow, not more. Coaches are control freaks who stretch out every possible millisecond of a break in the action.

Been saying it for a while, but we just need to accept the short-term pain on a rule change that would create a ton more fouls, but would force players to play cleaner and would actually improve the flow of the game long-term.

Screens can only be set with the screener completely set prior to the defender making contact with him and the screener must have both hands behind his back. He cannot "roll" until the defender has completely moved past him. And contact by the screener's hands to the defender in the process of setting the screen is an automatic moving screen foul and turnover.

Moving screens are the most egregious things in basketball and make the game unwatchable at times.

I'd probably argue that defensive players holding guys off the ball is the biggest issue in college basketball currently.

There are some issues with moving screens, also especially off the ball and that "hey I'm not setting a pick I'm just running slowly down the court in front of the ballhandler" thing they need to start calling, but I think defensive holding off the ball is a much bigger issue.

I mean if we're going that route can we actually start calling the basic stuff? Carrying has gotten out of control as every year players lean into it more as their "normal dribbling motion".

Carrying absolutely needs to be a point of emphasis. The one that drives me nuts is players turning the ball over like they're going to shoot it and then being able to put it back on the floor. We've already made on-ball defense hard enough, if you're going to allow that then there's almost no way to guard shooters who can also handle the ball.