NCAA adds two-minute warning, helmet communication to college football

rules changes coming to college football the NCAA has approved a two-minute warning and they have also approved helmet Communications now John according to the NCAA this two-minute warning won't involve an extra commercial break do you or does anybody believe that in the world it'll be a very it'll be a two-minute commercial break that's what it is there's a two-minute for a reason yeah I come on we why even say that yeah my and I want to know your thoughts on this because and and we'll get to the helmet communication because believe it or not I think that's you think Tennessee's offense was fun before you allow Josh HBO to communicate with the quarterback's helmet and I I think you might see some crazy stats offensively for Tennessee going forward but as far as a two-minute warning goes is college football going to have a problem where they are just taking up do they even care that they're taking up too much of someone Saturday because it's already a three and a half hour game which is half an hour longer than the NFL game now you're adding the two-minute warning I mean I you're you're gonna have to start setting aside four hours for college football games now right well it it's also contradictory to what the NCA just did where they originally uh you stopped the clock on uh on first downs and they eliminated that with the express intent to shorten the game and of course for the last two minutes you can stop the clock on first downs but that was a big step but now they're going back the other way and and I I can't help but believe that this is a commercial driven uh decision you know what else would it be are are they just trying to say we want to be NFL light we we want to be this it's just another melding of pro football with college football and it's all become pro football in just two different levels but have they not paid attention to the lack of interest that there is in minor league baseball nowadays to realize that you shouldn't just make yourself pro football light I mean this is a very shortsighted decision with them doing this no but see here's the thing Caleb I prefer watching college football game to a pro game and I think a lot of people do so I don't think this will affect the popularity of the sport whatsoever uh it used to be one of the reasons NFL has been universally popular through all these years was uh betting it's the best game to bet on it's just really attractive to betters you only have 32 or so teams you you can have a reasonable working knowledge people fool themselves into believing they know more about a team when effect once the line in fact when the line is set that tells you what the research goes into that betting line so then it's kind of flipping a coin rare instances you have inside information but so you have the prevalence of gambling but what's happened now gambling is more prevalent than ever and so people are doing in Knoxville for example it's a big college town and so I mean I know so many more people that bet on games now than they used to so I think that will that will enhance the popularity of the sport I just think college football is so entertaining that it doesn't matter these these changes don't affected enough to alter to alter the viewing I had an email and I get these occasionally from somebody who says they've been priced out of the ticket market and they have seasoned tickets say football became too expensive basketball became too expensive and finally now baseball has become too expensive for them but there going to be other people that will buy those tickets and ticket sales don't have the same impact they once did because of these gigantic Network deals television games um so I just think yeah you can say it's getting so much like the NFL but I still find it more exciting than the NFL I mean we talked about this yesterday but the NFL to me most of those games come down to a a a field goal can you get in position to field kick a field goal and all the guys can kick it 57 58 yards now and hit 85% of them or they get cut so you kinda you kind of know more how the game's going to go I think there's more of a surprise element with college football and then you have the the benefit of outlaying your scores in college football which to me is attractive to the better because you can say are they going to beat that team 50 points and look they're only given 47 I'm making that bet so I just think and I like the communication thing when you brought that up I mean yeah that's an advantage for uh for really good offensive minded coaches like Josh hyp oh my gosh if Steve spur would have been able to do that he might have won their national championships really I I think he might have just with that well I mean that was why he did that because he did it against Tennessee in 98 and against Florida State in 97 where he rotated quarterbacks every other play right and that was so he could tell them the play before they went out there I remember one time I was covering a game I would go down a week before and advance to advance the Tennessee Florida game and Tennessee had an open date and Florida was playing someone like uh Louisiana Monroe uh and and during the game I think Jesse Palmer might have been the quarterback and they ran a play uh thre an incompletion uh and he pulls Jesse Palmer and brings in Rex Grossman a freshman and I talked about that to Rex Grossman in the locker room he said uh sper came over to him after Jesse Palmer hadn't seen the open receiver in the endzone and said okay we're gonna do this and the receiver's going to go here can you throw him the ball in the end zone he said yeah coach and did and it was a touchdown so it to him it was all about can these quarterbacks follow Steve spers spur sees the field so well he saw the field so well rather and he saw matchup so well that if I get this guy receiver on that defensive back we're gonna win that the quarterback just has to throw him the ball so you you're communicating in his ear now Jesse throw the ball to number 11 he'll be standing there in the end zone okay been hard to beat and I think hypo would be really good at that too oh I think so too I mean he was a former quarterback that was great too allamerican who saw the field and I mean now you got hypo can see it from the sideline Nico can see it on the at the line of scrimmage I mean this is going to be very unfair for a lot of teams but I look John I think this and this is crazy to say but I I think Tennessee might you know everybody talks Colorado or this or I think Tennessee might be the most covered team in college football the next two years because I think they're just going to be the most fun team to watch with the most fun quarterback to watch well that was a case in 22 I think when you're looking over a Spate of college football games on a Saturday and you're an average fan in anywhere America and you say well who who do I want to watch in this time slot you have no particular rooting interest there may be not there might not be a number one one versus number two matchup who do you want to watch you'd say Tennessee I mean there's so much fun to watch they move the ball so quickly they score so much pile up so many yards and might see a 70-point game um so yeah it I think Tennessee could be that attraction and again we get back to where we were talking earlier about how do you fit an offense with your quarterback this is such a natural uh pairing with Nico in this offense and I do think I do think Nico will draw television viewers I mean if they've never seen him before and if they saw him in the bowl game they can kind of get their interest peaked but they look at him at what he can do and keep in mind he's so unusual and he's six foot six we're not we're not talking about a six foot 62 guy doing what he can do he's so Shifty and he's 66 you watch him play and he doesn't look like he's 6'6 yeah there is a and there's a comparison I draw and I say this a lot we mentioned warful and spier earlier I go warful spier Tommy Frasier Tom Osborne and Tim TBO Urban Meer or my list of like quarterbacks if you could create a quarterback in a lab to run the offense that they played in they were created in a lab I think Nico might be on that list for Josh eiel yeah and see because he's distinctive and think about the TBO factor I mean just an incredible college quarterback but so much fun to watch to watch a quarterback get in the open field and lower his shoulder and knock a safety into next week or even a a linebacker I mean you wanted to watch him play and I think it's going to be the same way with Nico he's he's going to be so distinctive people are gonna say man I got to check this guy out