womens tennis, if you take of a piece of clothing, its a mulligan on an error

LOL not sure if serious.

time to have an official for soccer, basketball, etc removed from the field with a headset and ability to replay/communicate with other officials on-the-fly.

It's clear that the modern fan sometimes has a better view of things due to amazing television coverage than the guys charged with best enforcing the rules.

The play clock in the NFL and especially in college football is getting out of control. I don't know what the current system is in the NFL for who is running the play clock, but it's a joke.

Yesterday with 0 timeouts and 9 seconds remaining, the Patriots ran a passing play that took 3 seconds. GTFO. Since they had 6 left, they ran another play instead of kicking a 53-yarder. Brady pump faked twice completed to the sideline and 1 seconds left. If the nonsense that was in the 1st play didn't happen, NE would've had to attempt a 53-yarder. Instead they got another 13 or so yards.

In week 1, with a game on the line with less than 4 min. left, 24 seconds was run off the clock after an incomplete pass. Don't worry they fixed it an added 9 seconds back on.

This is inexcusable. And it's so much worse in college. If a team needs the clock to stop and they're at home, they went out of bounds, not forced out, so the clock stops.

They also need a clearer interpretation of what constitutes getting out of bounds and being forced out. The NCAA needs to have an NCAA play clock official running that clock.

The play clock managers in college have way too much influence on the outcomes of games. Needs to stop now.

Haven't read the whole thread so sorry if repeat but

1. NBA needs to call moving screens particularly on the ball (not so much change in rule as change in enforcement).

2. It's silly and won't ever happen but baseball is better when it starts with a 1-1 count imo. Becomes a more aggressive game on the mound and in the batters box and fans see more frequent action with the ball being put in play.

3. I also think the NBA should suspend players for over the top acting. If you can suspend Bynum a week for a frustration push you can suspend the guy you make out to be your whole league for faking like he got poked in the eye and simulating a seizure when nobody was within a yard of him.

lose the throw-in rule in soccer, let em heave it like a basketball,
even allow a little run-up.

Make a rule in soccer that you can tackle-hit-trip idk something. And if they added something physical to this game it might make folks in the US come see the games which for the most part dont get enough fans to fill one row in any major sport staiums here.

Lol hockey

make a rule in soccer (on the sideline of the pitch) that a player can keep the ball alive with an in-air save, like in basketball.

imagine the 10x increase in bicycle kicks per game

Would be surprised it this hasn't been posted (and probably laughed at) but I think women's basketball should play on a lower rim. 9'6'' or something. It's not something silly or a change just to have dunks but even at the highest level the finishing around the basket is just pitiful to watch. They already play with a slightly smaller ball (or at least they used to I think they still do) and nobody seems to care what would the big deal be if they scaled the hoop down a little bit?

Also, I think the NBA should adopt the international rule regarding basket interference/goaltending.

I also think the NBA should make the court a yard or so wider.

all grounding in the NFL is penalized, instead of just inside the tackle box.

+1

I really think the main reason they got rid of it is they would rather not have rules where disputable judgement calls get made if they can avoid it and they thought this was an easy one to be able to avoid. Just from a purely competitive standpoint the old rule seemed a lot better to me.

ETA - From another thread, how about an "auto-kneel" option. Just tell the ref we'll forfeit a down at the end of the play-clock and avoid that play. Similar to the way you intentional walk guys at many levels of baseball (you just turn around and tell the ump).

Baseball + Football: Allow steroids

For every one professional athlete currently on the juice there's 10,000 people trying to get there using steroids... So leave it up to the discretion of the players.

First and foremost it would make the games that much more intense. And isn't that the point of sports? Competition and entertainment?

how's this for elegance, make the penalty for running out the play clock loss of down.

It's pretty steep for those times you check out of something on 3rd down and end up maybe missing by a beat. Also you'd probably want some yardage associated as it happens on 4th down from time to time. I do like giving the offense the option of just losing a down though. Kneels are a silly play and with all their safety stuff now you'd think they'd be all for eliminating silly plays.

you can't say soccer and pitch in the same sentence

Move kickoffs in the NFL to the 30 yard line

Move all kickoffs in the NFL to the way they used to open up XFL games.

i think all postseasons should involve the qualifying teams playing a round robin up to X # of wins, with each team dropping out when mathematically eliminated, and high finishing teams needing to win less games.

institute flag football rules for QB's behind the LOS

I know these posts were months ago, but I think it's a great point that the goals that were originally designed to be defended by a 5'8" player are now defended by a player who's about 6'2" on average. Looking at it that way, a 10% increase in goal size is much closer to being a properly scaled adjustment for goalie size than a "ridiculously large" change. The current goal size is 24' by 8'. I wouldn't actually ask for a fully scaled size change, but I think making the goal 25' wide, and 8' 3" high would be good to increase the scoring a little bit while still leaving the goal easier to defend it as it was when the rules were instituted.

I always get confused with these american/nonamerican ways of naming things

(and how butthurt some people get over them, while we're at)

half the distance to the goal when you get a 10 yard holding penalty on the 15 seems dumb to me. put the ball on the 5 not the 7.5. same deal with 15 yard personal fouls from the 20 with 5 instead of 10.

also i kind of think it would be fun if say, there was a false start penalty on an offense pinned on the 3, that they would start 2 yards deep in the end zone for the next play, and have to get out to avoid a safety. the idea being always enforce full penalty yardage, making sure penalties don't automatically cause points as often, save for when the ball would be spotted out the back of the endzone.

1. One foot in for NFL. Easier to officiate, speeds up game, more scoring, more great catches.

2. MLB replay for force plays when outcome does not affect further play. Quick, easy.

3. Allow flag stick left in at all times for golf. Current rule slows play, does not give an advantage to anyone, and was allowed prior to 1964.

4. Rugby style extra points for NFL. Encourage teams to go for two, more strategy on scoring plays.

5. NFL overtime coinflip loser gets to kick off at 50. First team to score wins. Encourage onside/pooch kicks that equalize advantage of receiving team.

here ya go