All 18 Big Ten coaches overwhelming against new NCAA punting rules
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Overwhelmingly, all 18 Big Ten football coaches are against the NCAA's new punting rule.
Pete Thamel, a senior college football writer for ESPN, called the rule "complicated" and revealed that every single Big Ten team has voted against it.
Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell hasn't been in the Big Ten as long as some of these other coaches, but remember, he came from Cincinnati and certainly knows a thing or two about college football.
Fickell was part of the lopsided 18-0 vote by the conference against these new punting rules.
While Frank Wilson Jr. is an associate coach outside of the Big Ten (Tennessee Tech), he broke down the official video posted so fans can further understand what new rules are going to be in place, or at least have been proposed.
Major changes for college football team's punting formation:
- Formations must be 2×2 on either side of the snapper. Unless there are five players, wearing numbers 50-79 on the LOS.
- Players are locked into the 2×2 formation with the Guards & Tackles in, or touching the tackle box. No shifting, and they are ineligible.
- If five players wearing 50-79 are on the LOS, normal football rules go into effect (shifting/eligibility).
- If a team elects to change player jerseys to alleviate numbering exceptions, a team may fill out a form and present it to the referees in the pregame meetings. An announcement will be made prior to the play about the changes.
Wisconsin is far from a special-teams-focused team that sees its entire game plan go out the window because of this, but it's yet another situation where the NCAA is stepping in and making what everyone believes to be unnecessary changes.
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