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Coin flip determines NCAA Men's College Cup

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by micropolitan guy, Dec 13, 2009.

  1. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    The idea of pulling players during OT doesn't suck.
     
  2. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Except you're altering the nature of the sport.

    Does any American sport except the NHL in the regular season, a gimmick that has done nothing to improve the sport's popularity in the U.S., pull players for overtime?
     
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  3. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Don't you pull players for PKs? All but two, right?
     
  4. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Weak.

    Tell you what, see what happens when you start pulling players after each period of overtime in that Syracuse-UConn Big East Basketball Tournament game last season.
     
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  5. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    In the idea I mentioned -- that someone else mentioned first a page or two ago -- you're still playing the actual game. With PKs, you're not. That's when it becomes a home run derby.
     
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  6. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    They don't need to pull players, though. They actually play the game in overtime.
     
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  7. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Not every American who does not enjoy soccer, or who wishes there could be some subtle changes to make it more interesting, is some stereotype NASCAR redneck.


    Yes, unlimited substitution killed football. Let's revert to the old one-platoon days. And having four or five sets of fresh legs on the pitch midway through the second half to give a gased player a breather would definitely be detrimental to the game, wouldn't it?

    In college soccer the clock stops when the team that is ahead subs to prevent just that scenario.
     
  8. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Why do you want people to provide alternatives if you're going to poo poo all of them?
     
  9. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    They would in your plan for soccer though, wouldn't they? You're telling me we'd end up with no-one on court in exceptional circumstances?

    Or playing 3-on-3 if it went to double overtime? Go to the halfcourt then, would they?
     
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  10. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    First up, you're still only allowed three subtitututes, no matter how many people are on your bench, in professional and international soccer.

    Second, in college soccer the clock only stops for substitutions in the final five minutes if the side making the substitution is ahead at that point.
     
  11. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Does the NHL pull players?
    Field hockey does, at least on the high school level. You go from 11 to 7.
     
  12. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Hell, I don't know exactly how it'd work. Just that it MIGHT be a way to make soccer suck a little less.

    Do you wake up at night, sweating, screaming, "Soccer does NOT suck. SHUT UP!!!"?
     
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