Either I’m real confused about what you’re saying, or you don’t grasp that basically everyone who watches college basketball regularly does this.
This is exactly what was supposed to make it funny.
But that's not a new rule, so I doubt it's even noticeable. I can't imagine any conference who didn't already make the change would suddenly choose to do it now, and I didn't notice it in any game I watched last year
I don't think any of our games used that rule. It would defintely be noticable if it was in place, and I assume it eventually will happen based upon $$.
That's exactly my point, this rule was in place already last season and the Big East opted not to use it. So there's no reason to think they will this year
$$ is the reason to think everyone will eventually use it, which will suck
Currently it's just experimental but thats the point of experimental; to see if it is worth it. When they inevitably decide that the ad money makes it worth it, they'll make it an instituted rule change that will be seen across all leagues.
And based on very few leagues wanting to adopt it, that's exactly how it will stay. It's also not an extra timeout per game, it's just a restructuring of the existing timeouts
It's definitely an extra timeout, and it won't matter what the leagues want to do, the networks will make them do it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but currently there is:
The current rule for the second half is Under 16, 12, 8, 4, and a floating media timeout that gets looped in whenever the 1st timeout is called by a coach. It's that floating timeout that's getting assigned to a specific minute threshold with this change. So TV networks aren't getting any additional commercial time with this, and games aren't going any longer as a result
Not sure how the games won't be longer when in the current system the 2nd half has 5 media length timeouts and up to 5 shorter timeouts, and the experimental rules have 5 media length timeouts and up to 6 shorter timeouts. Are they taking away timeouts from the coaches?
No, because the 5th media timeout is currently added on to one of the coaches' timeouts. So when they call a timeout during the 2nd half instead of being a 30 second timeout it's the full 2 minute (or however long the media timeouts are). This is straight out of the NCAA rule book, see bullet point 4 below
Yes that's how it works now. In the "new" version there will be 5 scheduled media timeouts and each coach will still have up to 3 timeouts. So we're going from a possible 10 timeouts in the 2nd half now, to 11 timeouts in the future.
No, you're completely misunderstanding the change. It's the same number of timeouts, the only difference is now on the first timeout a coach calls in the 2nd half they're not going to add on that additional time for a media timeout
So I'm just going to use an example where both coaches bring 3 timeouts into the 2nd half, and eliminate any injury and instant replay stoppage for simplicity.
Yes I understand what you're saying, there is going to be an extra time out called. What I'm explaining to you is that under the current system that amount of time is already accounted for. The only difference is now there's going to be a short commercial break for that "extra" coach timeout and a slightly longer 5th media timeout commercial break, instead of one extra long commerical break where those 2 amounts of time are combined
We'll just agree to disagree. I don't believe the time is accounted for, because the first coaches timeout of the 2nd half isn't the length of the normal coaches timeout + the length of the media timeout. It's just the length of the media timeout.