A few crazy ideas to revolutionize college basketball

[DanL53]

Let's increase the games to a full 60 minutes, with four quarters and no television timeouts. We can watch the commercials during the breaks between quarters, or at half.

Let's limit coaches timeouts to one per half, and one per each overtime, no carryover, and no commercials. Let's stick a microphone in the huddle to listen. I WOULD consider a once per quarter stop the game long enough to bring new players in, should take about five seconds. Otherwise players come in and out in the usual manner.

Let's shrink the scorer's table advertising gimmick back to being a scorers table. So we can see the coaches and bench while the game is going on.

Let's take all the television revenue and make going to the games free, general admission, AND still have reserved season tickets for a price, for those who are serious about their in game experience. But let's seat those folks on the side the camera doesn't show. Except for the students who buy season tickets, let's put them courtside, television ready.

Two foul shots for every foul in the first ten. Two foul shots and ball out of bounds after the first ten. But at the same time, let's get rid of the smiley face under the basket (no defense land) and get a handle on these officials as to what a foul is and isn't. Once that is accomplished, no...more...replays!!!

And! Eight fouls per player.

The games will, imo, end up taking just about the same amount of time but with actual basketball to watch! Big football type guys will learn what exhaustion really means. The running game will become the wear 'em out, foul 'em out policy it was meant to be, but we won't see the best players sitting with foul trouble unless they really are stupid. Refs will no longer screw up games by causing guys to miss half of 'em.

The downside will be blowouts will be harder to overcome, longer to endure. The upside is dramatic endings will have the, "Don't blink", appeal they should always have had.

 

[StormHawk42]

60 mins is too long. 4 ten minute quarters with no TV timeouts should be the way to go.

 

[DanL53]

60 mins is too long. 4 ten minute quarters with no TV timeouts should be the way to go.

I should have said 90 and negotiated down to 60.

 

[hawksense]

Use the hockey player change. One comes on, one goes off during play.

 

[ZumaHawk]

I have never thought that far into the changes like this. Interesting no doubt. Although, the "Big Football " type guys comment made me smile. Finesse is a thing of the past it seems.

 

[DanL53]

Use the hockey player change. One comes on, one goes off during play.

Yes! The "TAG IN!!!" Player in bounds runs to the scorers table and pushes a button signaling he is coming out, whereupon a player already waiting at scorers table pushes a button signaling he's coming in! Not quite the freedom of hockey, but I think it would add a dramatic flair to have to hit a button. Gotta come up with a good sound when it gets hit.

That's way better than the idea I had!

 

[SSG T]

Not hugely revolutionary, but...

4 - 10 minute quarters
5 team fouls per quarter to shoot 1and1, 7 fouls gets you 2 shots, team fouls reset at each qtr
Widen the lane to Int'l dimensions
Each team gets 4 time outs per game, can use any/all as 30 or full
1 TV time out (at 5 min mark) per qtr
Enforce current grabbing, pushing, clutching, arm bars, etc
Institute the NBA defensive 3 sec rule (a defensive player that isn't guarding someone can't be in the lane longer than 3 seconds)

 

[DanL53]

Think of all the rules added since the beginning. http://www.hooptactics.com/Basketball_Basics_Original_Basketball_Rules

But he forgot to say how many guys per side! Or maybe he didn't care? But we fixed it three years later:

The first intercollegiate match using the modern rule of five players per side is often credited as a game between the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa, on January 18, 1896.[20][22] The Chicago team, which was organized by Amos Alonzo Stagg, who had learned the game from James Naismith at the Springfield YMCA, won the game 15–12.[21][22] (Some sources state the first "true" five-on-five intercollegiate match was a game in 1897 between Yale and Penn, because the Iowa team, that played Chicago in 1896, was composed of University of Iowa students, but did not officially represent the University of Iowa – rather being organized through a YMCA.)[21] By 1900 the game of basketball had spread to colleges across the country .

And the lovely squabblers from Penn and Yale can stick it in their craw! We don't need their lawyerly objections as to what makes something official!

 

[hawk-i bob]

I'd be all in to increase fouls from 5 to 6.
Creighton needs them anyway.

 

[SSG T]

I'd be all in to increase fouls from 5 to 6.
Creighton needs them anyway.

The ratio of minutes:fouls is the same right now between CBB and the NBA, 8:1. Don't mess with it because the kids can't figure out how not to foul and the refs have no idea what is or isn't a foul.

 

[DanL53]

The ratio of minutes:fouls is the same right now between CBB and the NBA, 8:1. Don't mess with it because the kids can't figure out how not to foul and the refs have no idea what is or isn't a foul.

I just don't like how a game changes with a good player sitting on the bench for 15 minutes of the first half because he has two fouls. Of course that's the coaches choice. But I prefer to see guys on the court deciding the game.

No worries though, nobody is going to listen to me anyway. Just having fun.

 

[shank hawk]

Thought for sure you were going to say this, Dan:

 

[nu2u]

Reward defense
1 point awarded for a shot block inside the circle (the Mutombo rule).

Reward offense
4 point line. A basket made from behind a line 32 feet from the basket. (the Kingsbury rule)

Punish coaches.
Shocks administered to coaches who venture outside the coaches box when the ball is in play (the Izzo rule)

 

[DanL53]

Who else would like to see a game played with the original 13 rules, and a produce basket, and a janitor who gets a ladder to take the ball back out of the basket each time it goes in? I think it would be cool on the 125th anniversary of the game a couple teams (maybe the pros) agree to play one game, that counts, that way. Forget the dribbling, that was "invented" later.

 

[hooper56]

I don't think a team should be able to gain an advantage by fouling. After 10 fouls I would like to see fouls be 2 shots and the ball out of bounds. This would discourage fouling at the end of games. It usually doesn't work anyway but sometimes it does. And i hate to see a team win a game because they fouled down the stretch.