The NCAA Rules Committee has proposed a new "targeting rule" and now awaits only final approval next month before being enforced during the 2013 season. The real question is what the new rule will look like when it's put into practice.
A "targeting" call will result in a 15-yard penalty and officials will have the discretion to immediately eject the offending player. Replay officials can view a video replay and assuming they find conclusive evidence there was no intent, the ejection dicision can be overturned. But the 15-yard penalty stands in either case.
Players ejected in the first half of a game miss the rest of that one; those ejected in the second half would be required to sit out the first half of their next game.
There were 99 so-called "targeting" penalties (head to head) called by officials in major college games alone last season that would have justified an ejection. The new rule hopes to eliminate the many injuries suffered through these "leading with the head" hits.
A "targeting" call will result in a 15-yard penalty and officials will have the discretion to immediately eject the offending player. Replay officials can view a video replay and assuming they find conclusive evidence there was no intent, the ejection dicision can be overturned. But the 15-yard penalty stands in either case.
Players ejected in the first half of a game miss the rest of that one; those ejected in the second half would be required to sit out the first half of their next game.
There were 99 so-called "targeting" penalties (head to head) called by officials in major college games alone last season that would have justified an ejection. The new rule hopes to eliminate the many injuries suffered through these "leading with the head" hits.