agracer said:
Zombie Jon Snow said:
agracer said:
That would be like making football four 4 minute quarters and stopping the clock as soon as the ball is dead on every play b/c despite being 60 minutes, the ball is only actually 'in play' between 11 and 18 minutes per game.
Completely different. In football you have a play clock and that keeps things moving. And every play is a set play with strategy and personnel changes.
It's apples and oranges. Doesnt compare.
And it wouldn't be like that at all. It would just remove the most annoying behaviors that have nothing to do with game play.
But Imagine if football let the players just kick the ball around after a play to waste time. Or on an a punt there was no rush and the punter messed around while the clock was running. Or after an out of bounds play they could take however long they wanted to throw the ball back in. Or the clock kept running while a guy was writhing in agony on the field only to hop up and be fine. It's absurd. And easily fixed.
Football teams milk the play clock all the time. They stay in bounds to keep the clock running when they have a lead. They wait until 1-second on the play clock to snap the ball. Teams have to waste a down to spike the ball when they need to preserve the clock...why is that OK but taking an extra few second the play a goal kick or throw in is the biggest travesty in all of sports?
Are you suggesting that Mond NOT milking the play clock against UCLA was a good thing because it would have been time wasting tactics?
Still completely different because all of that is within the bounds of a play clock. And besides the random regular clock there is no play clock in soccer. Thus they can do those tactics indefinitely unless a ref gets tired of it but it i still not constrained at all except by the refs feeling.
Soccer/football is actually rife with historical examples of biased refs allowing such tactics for their favored team. And there isn't anything to stop it. That's terrible.
Soccer has a long history of such cheating due to gambling. Sure they've cleaned it up some. But why even allow such nebulous things. Other than thats the way it's always been there is no other argument.
