Go back to the old blocking rules

[JohnStOnge]

I thought I remembered this and looked it up:

http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/RuleChanges.txt

Here are some changes I'm focusing on:

1949--Blockers required to keep hands against chest.
1976--Offensive blocking changed to permit half extension of arms to assist
pass blocking.
1980--Retreat blocking added with full arm extension to assist pass blocking,
and illegal use of hands reduced to 5 yd. penalty.
1985--Retreat block deleted and open hands and extended arms permitted
anywhere on field.

I wish the NCAA would go back to the 1949 rule. The offense has too much advantage now and the liberal blocking rule with open hands and extended arms permitted has resulted in the degradation of real football. I'm tired of watching flag football offenses take over. I know they wanted to help the passing game but it's gone too far. Watching McNeese play SFA and Oklahoma State play Texas Tech last night really brought it home to me. Something needs to be done to make people play football. That is not what football was meant to be. If people want to watch that kind of junk offense they can watch Arena ball. It'd be a better game with the old blocking rule back. I'd love to see them try those big line splits then pass block if the o linemen had to keep their hands against their chests.

[dungeonjoe]

While we are at it, can we take face masks away too?:o :p

[OB55]

Said this before, and I am serious. Allow tackling by offensive linemen, and pass interference by the defensive backs. That eliminates a lot of invisible penalties, and keeps the game going.

Oh yeah, and QBs should be considered football players not homecoming queens. :p No more mamby pamby rules protecting QBs, hit 'em hard and hit 'em often.

Should be no place in this sport for girly-boys.xreadx

[Franks Tanks]

I thought I remembered this and looked it up:

http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/RuleChanges.txt

Here are some changes I'm focusing on:

1949--Blockers required to keep hands against chest.
1976--Offensive blocking changed to permit half extension of arms to assist
pass blocking.
1980--Retreat blocking added with full arm extension to assist pass blocking,
and illegal use of hands reduced to 5 yd. penalty.
1985--Retreat block deleted and open hands and extended arms permitted
anywhere on field.

I wish the NCAA would go back to the 1949 rule. The offense has too much advantage now and the liberal blocking rule with open hands and extended arms permitted has resulted in the degradation of real football. I'm tired of watching flag football offenses take over. I know they wanted to help the passing game but it's gone too far. Watching McNeese play SFA and Oklahoma State play Texas Tech last night really brought it home to me. Something needs to be done to make people play football. That is not what football was meant to be. If people want to watch that kind of junk offense they can watch Arena ball. It'd be a better game with the old blocking rule back. I'd love to see them try those big line splits then pass block if the o linemen had to keep their hands against their chests.

Hand against the chest-- it would be absolutely impossible to block anyone. Games would be 6-3

[JohnStOnge]

Hand against the chest-- it would be absolutely impossible to block anyone. Games would be 6-3

I don't think so. I think you'd just have different types of offenses and that's what I want. For instance: I think the offense Paul Johnson runs at Georgia Tech right now could be run effectively with that rule in place. I don't think they necessarily have to say, "hands against the chest." All I'm looking for is that they can't extend and push with their arms. They can't use their arms in blocking unless it's the old style with the hands against the chest and the elbows out.

I think what it'd do is make teams move towards a little bit smaller, more athletic offensive linemen. And it'd make teams have to move more towards the running game so that the other team would have to worry about that so that it couldn't "pin its ears back."

I looked up McNeese's scores from 1975 and the average for their games was 22-18. I looked up Oklahoma's 1975 average and they scored 29 points per game. In 1974 they averaged 43 points per game. And they did it with an offense that actually looked like football instead of this stuff of nowdays with the big offensive lineman plodding around shoving their arms out, pseudo-holding on every play, etc.

[Franks Tanks]

I don't think so. I think you'd just have different types of offenses and that's what I want. For instance: I think the offense Paul Johnson runs at Georgia Tech right now could be run effectively with that rule in place. I don't think they necessarily have to say, "hands against the chest." All I'm looking for is that they can't extend and push with their arms. They can't use their arms in blocking unless it's the old style with the hands against the chest and the elbows out.

I think what it'd do is make teams move towards a little bit smaller, more athletic offensive linemen. And it'd make teams have to move more towards the running game so that the other team would have to worry about that so that it couldn't "pin its ears back."

I looked up McNeese's scores from 1975 and the average for their games was 22-18. I looked up Oklahoma's 1975 average and they scored 29 points per game. In 1974 they averaged 43 points per game. And they did it with an offense that actually looked like football instead of this stuff of nowdays with the big offensive lineman plodding around shoving their arms out, pseudo-holding on every play, etc.


That was the footal dark ages comprared to today. The top teams of this era would absolutely kill the Sooner teams of the mid-70's and the other top teams of the time. The wishbone would still be run today on a large scale if it worked more consistently.

If you cant extend and punch with you arms you cant block--that is blocking especially pass blocking. I would like to see you try to block someone just throwing in the "flipper" as it called or hitting with a shoulder. D-linemen are so good today the will just abuse a blocker that did that.

[andy7171]

Do you also yearn for the days of the old black and white 12 inch tv with rabbit ears? Those were the good old days weren't they?


Pass blocking is hard enough. If you don't like the large splits, blitz the gaps.