NCAA Rules Committee takes aim at injury feigning as flopping in college football hits ‘inflection point’

If you left coaches alone long enough, they were going to adopt the completely devious practice of faking injuries. 

It’s not even worth calling it gamesmanship anymore. The idea was hatched in the back rooms of coaches’ meetings where anything is accepted — regardless of legality — to gain any kind of advantage. 

For those of you not with your noses buried in House v. NCAA settlement court documents or College Football Playoff automatic qualifier scenarios, players faking injuries has become college football’s No. 1 offseason discussion. 

The practice, hatched as an idea to slow down up-tempo offenses, has become like spilled coffee on a white carpet — an ugly stain that’s hard to clean. The NCAA Football Rules Committee will make feigning injuries its primary topic when it meets this week in Indianapolis. 

“We’re at an inflection point,” said Steve Shaw, the head of that committee as NCAA secretary-rules editor. “We have to do something.”

As it stands, college football has descended into the lowest common denominator of entertainment — pro wrestling — that threatens the integrity of the game. And there’s enough erosion of that credibility lately. 

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Start with the fact that coaches and players have become so blatant and fraudulent about it. You’d at least think they’d refine this sort of cheating during a practice period or something. What we’re getting are middle school productions with worse actors.

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Author : Dennis Dodd

Publish date : 2025-02-25 15:37:00

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