Breaking News: NCAA Approves 2-Minute Warning & Helmet Comms | GSMC College Football Podcast

hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the gsmc college football podcast brought to you by the gsmc sports network we have a great show for you today we're going to start talking a little bit about some new rule changes that have just been approved for 2024 the 2-minute warning and the helmet coms being the main among them but there are a couple others that were agreed upon that I want to break down for you all then we're going to get into some spring game takeaways we'll get into Michigan Texas and Oklahoma today but we'll definitely continue throughout the week cuz it was a very very busy Saturday around college football then we're going to get into a transfer portal update a ton has been happening around the sport on that front we've had a couple of different uh commitments to different teams we have some Intel about where some Big Time Players might end up and then we have some new players getting into the portal that we definitely need to be watching and then we will finish it off with a good vibes Monday and today we're going to talk about some transfer portal success stories obviously there's been a lot of negative energy around the portal um some coming from myself but uh I think it's always uh important to highlight the good in um that system as well so want to do that today and just remind that not everything is bad uh in terms of the transfer portal but before we jump in I do want to remind you all we get tons of questions and comments throughout the show and the best way for you all to get your questions on the screen we can have a fun back and forth here you can ask a question that you've been wondering about is to use the tip and donation Link at the bottom of the screen gsmc podcast. net to huge help not only to us here at the network but to you all you get to have a fun interactive experience here maybe bring up something that um i' had forgotten to bring up or ask a question that you're wondering about so definitely use that if you want to um leave any questions again that's gsmc podcast. net but let's Jump Right In uh we have tons of stuff changing around college football and obviously a lot of the energy has been put towards conference realignment and all of the stuff going on with Florida State and the ACC um a ton of different stuff is going on around the sport in terms of change but these next two are a little bit easier to wrap your head around and we actually know what they look like in practice because the NFL does them so the two-minute warning and helmet coms have officially been approved for 2024 it's going to mirror the way that the NFL works so for the helmet Communications it's going to be one player on either side of the ball for each team will have uh what they call the Green Dot so uh they'll have a Green Dot on the back of their helmet which will indicate they are the person with the headset in their ear they will be tied to a coach on the sideline usually the play caller almost 99% of the time will be the play caller and they'll be able to talk to them um up until I think 15 seconds left on the play clock is when it cuts off or when the snap is whichever one of those happens first is kind of uh just the way they go about things so so it's one of the interesting things where this was passed and you are more than welcome to use it and there will be plenty of teams I would argue probably the majority of the teams will uh utilize this but it seems like you don't have to so you can definitely make a decision if you you know don't want to use it um even if one team in the game has decided not to use it the other team can so it'll be interesting to kind of see which teams fall into which categories if there's any patterns that kind of form in this because um of the things that we've talked about on this show uh talking about this and one of the things that has become more and more prevalent as I've kind of gotten into this more and more is this is really going to benefit offensive coaches right there's this ability to be in your uh quarterback's ear to show him how the coverage is changing or you know that safety is coming down in the Box make sure that you are watching the scene because that might be open type of thing so there's this ability to kind of um play sort of like video games uh it's something that they trial ran this during the bull games last year and it was something that uh some coaches said I think Mike Loxley was the main one that uh had said a number of times in the postgame and and subsequent interviews where it felt like he was playing a video game and mostly because during the Bull game it didn't cut off until the snap so you had all the Time in the World to talk to your quarterback to see how the coverage changed throughout the you know know even last 15 seconds of the play clock um and it's a very interesting thing because it makes so much difficulty obviously for the defense because when you can kind of uh when you have someone like Mike loley who has such an impressive record of running incredible offenses and now he has even more control over what happens in a play it's never ideal right so I think the offensive coaches will definitely benefit from this the most I think um it definitely does help the defense I think it'll help different defenses um to different degrees obviously but um I would say the vast majority of the help is going to the offensive side of the ball I think having someone in the ear of the quarterback up until the snap is an absolute luxury well not up until the snap until 15 minutes left on the play clock or the snap which is actually something I want to get into because I do think this will increase the pace of play um for the teams that already go fast you know the Texas Old Miss um these really high-powered offenses you look at it and you say I think you know there's there's some change of pace within there if you watch the Texas games there's a lot of differing of you know the way that they're going about business whether it's in between the plays or with the plays in general you know running quick uh pass plays or making more long drawn out run plays or even long drawn out pass plays so I think there's this ability now to not only get the play in as quickly as possible have the quarterback disseminate that information as quickly as possible and then get aligned and you can do all that while the defensive coordinator is screaming in the ear of the linebacker trying to get everyone aligned because I'd argue that's a lot tougher on the defensive side of the ball than the offensive because you're kind of playing a reaction game in some of the you know coverages that you set up uh you you see a number of times where a defense will have a certain set and then the offense will come out of their huddle set up uh the wide receivers and and Corners will move all over the place so I think this does give a benefit to the offense in terms of just being able to look at the game very objectively and have maybe more of a control over it than maybe the defense will under this new rule but I still do think the defense will benefit from this and I think um one of the things that we've talked about a couple of times um as we've kind of gotten into the helmet coms in particular has been this idea that it creates kind of a chess game with in the football game right we've I mean we've seen this before you know throughout college football but there's this tendency for really really good play callers and really really good coaches to kind of play each other instead of trying to play the the players on the field or um do anything like that so it it's very much a chess game between those two I think that only increases with this I think you have so much ability to control what's going on on the field that you're almost going to see you know know these guys go mono a mono on who can make the right adjustments who can call the right plays at the right times who can push the right buttons and one of the things that might be kind of overlooked in all this but who has the good relationship with the guy that you're in the year of um a lot of these situations around college football now a lot of them are good I I don't necessarily think that there's a ton of play callers and quarterbacks that are at odds by any means but this is going to definitely add some Strain To those Rel ships it's definitely going to add a new layer to those relationships and you'll figure out kind of where everyone stands with their play caller whether it's you know Quinn Ur and Steve sarkeesian or Carson Beck and Mike Bobo you'll figure out kind of how close they are how much in lock step they are and uh it'll be really interesting to watch not only you know are they able to kind of handle all that uh the player but are they able to handle you know the coach being in your ear constantly because I'm I'm sure they already get a plenty of uh coaching and plenty of uh yelling in their ear from that coach anyway but it'll be really interesting to see if this definitely if this tests any of those relationships and if we see any uh crack start to form but at the end of the day I do think um for the vast majority of college football there is a good relationship between the quarterback and the play caller or the you know star linebacker and the defensive play caller so usually you wouldn't find much of a problem but it could could just be that you know the really Elite relationships the ones that are in more of a lock step and have been around a little bit longer might benefit even more from this um and another layer to this that I think kind of goes hand inand with the offense kind of benefiting the most from this was brought up by uh JD pickle over at um on three Sports and he said coaches that were quarterbacks in high school or in college excuse me or in the NFL will benefit uh from this the most and I think that totally makes sense right you have the ability to not only be in the ear of one of your players but one of the players that you know exactly what's going through their head uh as they kind of go through these um defensive checklists that they need to and you have seen the field from their point of view right so there's this ability to kind of get in the mind of your quarterback that might not be there for some other team so when you talk about those type of players you have Steve sarkeesian obviously played at BYU in his uh days Josh hypo was the quarterback Oklahoma was remarkable there um Lincoln Riley was mostly a backup during his career but was a quarterback and learned a ton during his college career Ryan day was a quarterback so you have some guys that are the you know Elite of the elite when it comes to putting together offenses that are quarterbacks that you know have quarterbacks in their system a lot of them that are experienced or that they have good relationships with so it'll be really interesting to see kind of you know is Steve sarkeesian taking full advantage of this is Josh hyp taking full advantage of this and uh are they utilizing it maybe to a better degree than some other people uh in the game because it's going to be you know razor thin margins as it usually is in this sport especially with something new like this where you're going to have to adapt to it you're going to have to change kind of the way that things that you go about business on a daily basis or go about business at least on Saturdays I think there is this really interesting layer that this will add and in terms of figuring out not only who has the most talented players not only you know who executed their game plan the best but who has the best relationships who has the best culture who has the best um ability to handle uh you know new things and and obstacles in their path because this is going to be something that is new for a lot of these kids a lot of these kids have not utilized this some have done it in high school depending on where you played um but some of these kids this is the first time that they're dealing with this and it is something that um we'll definitely take time to get used to but also will definitely be something that I think they'll enjoy very thoroughly so I think it'll be interesting um to watch you know what quarterbacks this benefits the most does it lean towards the young talented kids that just needs a little bit of help pre- snap um because that's obviously a huge benefit of this is you have the ability to be in that guy's ear and if a Young quarterback is making the wrong read you can call him off that um at least pre- snap you can call him off that and kind of um make sure that he's going about the pre- snap business the way he should where in the past you know it used to be very talented kids would have to kind of wait their turn to learn the offense to be able to make all the calls and not have any uh slip UPS that's obviously less of a concern now so it'll be interesting to see if it's more of a you know the veterans that can handle this type of thing better um really thrive on under this it could be that really talented young kids take over the uh veteran leadership or the veteran places of these quarterbacks just to see kind of what happens um and and see if uh Talent can kind of win out and to be totally honest with you I have no real problem with that I think that's one of the things that um football is about especially from the quarterback position is getting these kids as many live reps as possible as early as possible and doing them in the right manner right and I think this gives you kind of the ability to do that at least on a more consistent basis with young players but um but let's talk about the uh two-minute warning this one is some is one that's uh you know pretty much cut and dry there wasn't much to be done about this and I know people are very very upset about the uh possible new commercial break apparently this is supposed to kind of alleviate the uh annoying commercial breaks I guess you know the classic you score a touchdown you go to commercial you get you get a kickoff you go back to commercial those are insanely frustrating they happen pretty much every Saturday so apparently th this is supposed to kind of alleviate those um make it a little bit easier to fit in the TV timeouts that they need to because sometimes you get backed up and then you get in that situation where you're watching more commercials than you watch football in the last you know 15 minutes so it gets a little bit frustrating but hopefully this will kind of do away with that and uh I think it's a rule that I don't necessarily love but it doesn't necessarily hurt anything they set up the stopping clock you know um with 2 minutes uh left in the half in the game so this kind of aligns with that and it it makes sense so not necessarily going to lose sleep over uh the two-minute warning by any means but some other changes that were approved on uh on Friday by the NCAA um penalizing horse collar tackles that occur inside the tackle box for a 15 yard penal uh personal foul so this is something that to be totally honest I didn't know what wasn't in place in in the first place but uh it probably should be it's something that you know if you have a couple of these in a game you will get you know thrown out of the game so definitely will change the way that um pass rushers go about business you know you don't want to just be grabbing at quarterbacks willy-nilly because if you catch him on the horse uh on a horse collar you could get 15 yards and be in danger of possibly missing the rest of the game later on so definitely an interesting one there there um another one is allowing conferences the option to use collaborative video replay review so I think that's mainly just using their views along with ESPN so they can get as many views and as many um pieces to it as possible which I think is a no-brainer right you know you you never want um any review system to kind of mess up the way that things go about um on Saturdays so I think that makes total sense and then finally head coaches can now conduct interviews with broadcast partners between the first and the third quarter and this is the one that I dislike the most uh I think a lot of us that have watched you know a ton of different sports have seen this start to happen in college basketball or in the NBA and I just find it kind of annoying I don't think there's any real reason to be interviewing a head coach at that point let him go about a about his business he already gives you one at halftime so I think it's a little bit ridiculous but at the end of the day it's a a small hurdle to get over uh when you're watching these games so not necessarily too upset about that but definitely not one that um I would have voted on if I was in the room I suppose but tons of changes coming uh throughout college football there is tons of stuff happening on the conference realignment front tons of stuff happening with the playoff and just everything it feels like the transfer portal nil everything is moving and shifting as the days go on but these are ones that uh we can kind of wrap our head around um and the vast majority majority of the ones that were agreed upon um are pretty benign changes likely will not change a lot of the game play now the helmet commoms will transform games I I really do think it'll make a total difference in the way that people go about business the way that you see offenses kind of play and I think you'll see kind of the elite of the elite in terms of play callers kind of rise to the top we've had this idea of you know who the best play calls in the country are well really going to be put to the test uh this upcoming year if they want to make adjustments in the snap they can do that now by just you know talking into his ear so it'll be really interesting to watch all of this kind of unfold I think helmet commoms is a thing that I've been on board for for quite some time and um very very excited that it's finally coming because I think it makes it more about football I think it takes out um some of the unknowns from the game and allows you know the best team and the best play callers to win so very very excited about that I think it's going to be really really interesting to watch but we're going to take our first break here and when we come back we're going to talk about the spring games there were tons going on on Saturday I only have three for you today we have Michigan Texas and Oklahoma but we will get to plenty more throughout the week because there were tons of takeaways from USC from Florida State tons of games going on throughout the country that I want to break down but today we'll start with three and then we'll kind of move from there so stick with us and we'll be right back with that