Pretty significant Friday news drop.

The SEC will begin punishing head coaches if it is determined a player or team is ‘feigning’ injuries to create timeouts.

Of course, this has been quite the conversation surrounding Ole Miss this season and throughout much of the conference as well. Perhaps not as much in Texas circles, but it will certainly have lasting impacts around the conference.

On first infraction, a head coach will be fined $50,000. A second infraction will be a fine of $100,000. And a third could result in a suspension.

 

That great, but could they also start cracking down on the fake penalties?

Personally, I think a better solution would have injury timeouts charged as a team timeout.  

Frankly, a lot of those nicked guys can get off the field.  I also think any 'injured' player should have to sit out a minimum number of plays..........like 10 or so

Good.

It’ll be interesting to see how this is enforced. It can be difficult to determine if some injuries are real or faked. Of course, some are clearly faked (I’m looking at you Ole Miss.)

I agree with other posters here that a team penalty during the game would be better. That will put an end to the shenanigans pretty quickly. 

I think making it so injured players can’t return until the next series would crack down the most on this. 

57 minutes ago, Inspired73 said:

Personally, I think a better solution would have injury timeouts charged as a team timeout.  

Frankly, a lot of those nicked guys can get off the field.  I also think any 'injured' player should have to sit out a minimum number of plays..........like 10 or so

Officials have enough trouble just officiating, I don't want to add things like checking to make sure the player returned before a certain number of plays. Just make it a TO. When the coaches start losing their TOs this stupidity will stop.

Unenforceable, but a beginning.

Others above have already posted the real remedy- players sit out a series they leave for injury or charge a timeout.

1 hour ago, Inspired73 said:

Personally, I think a better solution would have injury timeouts charged as a team timeout.  

Frankly, a lot of those nicked guys can get off the field.  I also think any 'injured' player should have to sit out a minimum number of plays..........like 10 or so

I’m of a similar vein.  I like the idea of requiring an injured player to have to sit out the rest of the drive.  Would significantly reduce fake injuries and give medical teams more time to evaluate injuries without the pressure of holding back a player from recentering the game. 

I’m going to modify this statement and give it to my wife to crack down on fake “headaches”. I’ll send it to the married men if needed. 

I would say sit out the series the injury occurred in and the next one also.  

2 hours ago, GoingForTheCorner said:

That great, but could they also start cracking down on the fake penalties?

No kidding. We need the same scenario of fines for the refs.

2 hours ago, GoingForTheCorner said:

That great, but could they also start cracking down on the fake penalties?

Like you say, the league should impose the same fines and suspension on officials for phantom holding calls

 

I think it would be great if we could have the review booth send medical teams onto the field to conduct a full diagnosis to determine if the injury is legit.

That would really speed up the game. 

On 11/1/2024 at 5:55 PM, Realist Horn said:

I’m going to modify this statement and give it to my wife to crack down on fake “headaches”. I’ll send it to the married men if needed. 

Change up the stroke game 

10 hours ago, bierce said:

I think it would be great if we could have the review booth send medical teams onto the field to conduct a full diagnosis to determine if the injury is legit.

That would really speed up the game. 

Just think of the commercials they could get in.