TLDR. TV Executives are evil.
Faking Injuries is unsportsmanlike and an embarrassment to the game. In fact it’s a crime committed against the game of football. And what do all crimes have? Motive.
Now the obvious motive we all think it is that whenever there’s a big play the coaches tell a guy to go down to get a break or kill tempo. This is ridiculously obvious. Too obvious to be the case.
Now some of the smarter posters have said that Kiffin orders the players to do it because this crime against the game needs to be banned and fixed with a rule. Because our coach would never do this just to selfishly help his team win games. And if the powers that be won’t fix it then Kiffin will show them why it must be. While I wish this were true this is sadly not the case.
So if players aren’t faking injuries to win or fix it forever then why is this crime being committed? Well who has motive? Who benefits? The TV networks of course! What really happens every time a player goes down? An unplanned TV timeout! More ads. More money to the conference’s corporate partner ESPN and the Mouse.
We already know they met in smoke filled back rooms to end the clock being stopped on first down to “shorten the games.” Have they been shortened? Of course not! We just get more commercials instead! And before that? They ruined the best overtime rules we ever had for “player safety.” No more 7 OT classics like Ole Miss-Arkansas or Texas A&M-LSU. No more football on the tv they can’t cut away from or not being able to move on to the next game for more commercials.
ESPN and Disney are the true reason JJ Pegues has gone down 20 times this season. They get more money from Home Depot and Pizza Hut and they didn’t even have to wait for a turnover or touchdown. They get free time to make more money while Pat “treats” the players. Our players and Lane Kiffin are just patsies for the real criminals in college football. TV Executives.
Faking Injuries is unsportsmanlike and an embarrassment to the game. In fact it’s a crime committed against the game of football. And what do all crimes have? Motive.
Now the obvious motive we all think it is that whenever there’s a big play the coaches tell a guy to go down to get a break or kill tempo. This is ridiculously obvious. Too obvious to be the case.
Now some of the smarter posters have said that Kiffin orders the players to do it because this crime against the game needs to be banned and fixed with a rule. Because our coach would never do this just to selfishly help his team win games. And if the powers that be won’t fix it then Kiffin will show them why it must be. While I wish this were true this is sadly not the case.
So if players aren’t faking injuries to win or fix it forever then why is this crime being committed? Well who has motive? Who benefits? The TV networks of course! What really happens every time a player goes down? An unplanned TV timeout! More ads. More money to the conference’s corporate partner ESPN and the Mouse.
We already know they met in smoke filled back rooms to end the clock being stopped on first down to “shorten the games.” Have they been shortened? Of course not! We just get more commercials instead! And before that? They ruined the best overtime rules we ever had for “player safety.” No more 7 OT classics like Ole Miss-Arkansas or Texas A&M-LSU. No more football on the tv they can’t cut away from or not being able to move on to the next game for more commercials.
ESPN and Disney are the true reason JJ Pegues has gone down 20 times this season. They get more money from Home Depot and Pizza Hut and they didn’t even have to wait for a turnover or touchdown. They get free time to make more money while Pat “treats” the players. Our players and Lane Kiffin are just patsies for the real criminals in college football. TV Executives.
