Why did this game take so long to play?
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What games have you been watching? Most games take at least the whole 2 hours or close to it.
And because of players being put in head locks and choke holds....In all seriousness....What was the deal with that VT player last night?? Satchel something??
Games were getting done in about 1:50 early in the season, but they have slid back to 2:00 or more since conference play started.
If the worst thing we get game time wise this season is a game that last 2 hours we should consider ourselves lucky. They put the rules in to speed up play because most games were lasting a good bit longer than that, and so far the rules are working.
I agree -- I think all of the speed up rule changes have been an improvement.
Now if they could just figure out a way to speed up video reviews. Thankfully there aren't a lot of them, but if you can't look at the replay a couple times and figure out that the call is wrong stop looking and get on with the game. At the end of the women's game yesterday they spent literally five minutes (in fact probably more than five minutes) reviewing an out of bounds play with seven seconds left. And the worst part was that it wasn't even a "real" tv game or even an ESPN3 game, it was being shown on the Clemson web site on basically the equivalent of watching the game on the scoreboard at the Pete except with announcers. So they did have replays, but they didn't have a lot of angles. None of what they had gave the perfect look at the play, but they had one view that clearly showed that the Clemson player laying on the floor with possession of the ball was partly laying on the baseline. Which is the reason that the ref blew the whistle and originally signaled that it was Pitt's ball. I still can't figure out what in the heck they were looking at for over five minutes.
If you are looking at the play and there are no perfect angles and you can't see anything in the first couple of views that would even remotely be a reason to change the call, get on with the game.
I agree with all of this.
But maybe one thing that could help is giving the refs something better to look at than a 10" TV that doesn't even look to be high def. Is it a TV from something like 1986?
I wonder if it's even a black and white set.
and while we're at it whatever happened to the 50 minute Sunday Mass...you got all these Eucharistic ministers and mistresses running around with bowls and chalices and mumbo jumbo and everything has to be sung and some dude from some society has to give a ten minute talk and before you know it you have been in there 75 minutes....uh, sorry, had to vent....
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