New "Boise State" Rule in college football.

[BrySmalls]

I support this rule since the NCAA is actually trying to protect their student-athletes from sustaining an unexpected (and possibly devastating, i.e. long-term) injury.

How? It's not like they're dumbass waterfoul who see the blue turf and think "lake full of edible fish, DIVE!"

This rule inhibits monochrome teams from being completely camouflaged on the turf, i.e., it levels the playing field for the opposition .

Yeah, that's great camouflage...if you weren't already at ing field-level and honestly if you're looking at the ground all the time you deserve to be blown up by an opposing player who you never saw coming. If you're looking heads up, the stadium wall is going to be what they are contrasted against. Not the field.

Fair enough, but there's no need to get angry about it.

[rams80]

I support this rule since the NCAA is actually trying to protect their student-athletes from sustaining an unexpected (and possibly devastating, i.e. long-term) injury.

How? It's not like they're dumbass waterfoul who see the blue turf and think "lake full of edible fish, DIVE!"

This rule inhibits monochrome teams from being completely camouflaged on the turf, i.e., it levels the playing field for the opposition .

Yeah, that's great camouflage...if you weren't already at ing field-level and honestly if you're looking at the ground all the time you deserve to be blown up by an opposing player who you never saw coming. If you're looking heads up, the stadium wall is going to be what they are contrasted against. Not the field.

Fair enough, but there's no need to get angry about it.

Sorry. Just a little hacked off that this is a place where the NCAA tries to take a purported stand for "player safety". While at the same time saying that any stoppage for injury inside of 1 minute results in a 10 second runoff if you're out of timeouts.

[Lights Out]

Wasn't the original point of BSU going all blue was so it could blend into the turf? Make it more difficult for people to see them, in both film and in person? If so, they only have themselves to blame. They were trying to cheat the rules (at least about filming, since game film is legal, but "editing" yourself out of it by using monochrome to hide), and it's now backfired.

Wrong. Back in 1986 when the blue turf was first put in, BSU wore contrasting pants.

The monochrome came in during the late '90s as far as I can tell, when monochrome uniforms first started to become a trend in general.

[FiddySicks]

This is stupid. I like monochrome and I like colored fields. I want to see more of them, actually.

[GFB]

I support this rule since the NCAA is actually trying to protect their student-athletes from sustaining an unexpected (and possibly devastating, i.e. long-term) injury.

How? It's not like they're dumbass waterfoul who see the blue turf and think "lake full of edible fish, DIVE!"

This rule inhibits monochrome teams from being completely camouflaged on the turf, i.e., it levels the playing field for the opposition .

Yeah, that's great camouflage...if you weren't already at ing field-level and honestly if you're looking at the ground all the time you deserve to be blown up by an opposing player who you never saw coming. If you're looking heads up, the stadium wall is going to be what they are contrasted against. Not the field.

Fair enough, but there's no need to get angry about it.

Sorry. Just a little hacked off that this is a place where the NCAA tries to take a purported stand for "player safety". While at the same time saying that any stoppage for injury inside of 1 minute results in a 10 second runoff if you're out of timeouts.

So, if they tried to pass the rule to level the competitive playing field you would be ok with it?

As for your point about the stadium walls, that's simply not true unless you're under 3' tall. Look at this picture from field level.

Or this picture (imagine if the people in black were wearing blue from head to toe)

http://www.rvidaho.org/images/image.aspx?img=GsbsvJPmgeVNYhVmVVKkK/66mCY0cvOrvctRyORZQsoxnqnKpmR+oUMwGt/fVZ/gPrkHQyKWPqA=

Besides, both those pictures take place smack dab in the middle of the day. I'd imagine it gets worse during a night game with stadium lighting.

From the perspective of someone 6'0, unless someone is 40 yards away, you're probably only going to see the helmet breaking the plane of the field when looking straight down the middle from your on your own half.

I'm with you on the point of just regulating the field color, but that cat has already been out of the bag for too long with schools spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on colored playing surfaces.

[drdougfresh]

Best news in all of this: no monochrome green for MSU, ever.

[Sec19Row53]

So if there is a snowstorm bearing down on Madison, will the NCAA call Barry Alvarez and inform him that the Badgers can't go with monochrome white

[NJTank]

NCAA should require all schools to have green turf. Anything else is dumb and looks ridiculous.

FBS and FCS, please. My wife has a cousin who plays for Eastern Washington. Watching their home games is is just painful.

My eyes my eyes oh my eyes

Blind blind I cant see but I cant unsee it.

Back to Boise.

BTW I have a Boise State blue truf rug they cant make them get rid of it.

[philly97flyer]

I cant wait until someone finds the loop hole in this and exposes the NCAA blazer-wearing bozos. I hope a team decides to go all white during a snow storm, as mentioned above.

[oldschoolvikings]

NCAA should require all schools to have green turf. Anything else is dumb and looks ridiculous.

FBS and FCS, please. My wife has a cousin who plays for Eastern Washington. Watching their home games is is just painful.

That's a violently stupid look. Stomach-turning.

I'm OK with this rule, but a MUCH better rule would be to just outlaw the moronic non-green fields. Boise and others should just consider growing up.

[MellowTheMyth]

There's bigger fish for the NCAA to be frying at the moment. In my eyes, this "rule" is unnecessary. Besides, what camouflage? If I can clearly seen Boise as well as the commentators, then what should it matter? You don't hear opposing players having complaints about any inability to see Boise St players!

[MellowTheMyth]

I cant wait until someone finds the loop hole in this and exposes the NCAA blazer-wearing bozos. I hope a team decides to go all white during a snow storm, as mentioned above.

Mississippi State did it back in 2000 vs Texas A&M.

[slapshot]

Wasn't the original point of BSU going all blue was so it could blend into the turf? Make it more difficult for people to see them, in both film and in person? If so, they only have themselves to blame. They were trying to cheat the rules (at least about filming, since game film is legal, but "editing" yourself out of it by using monochrome to hide), and it's now backfired.

Wrong. Back in 1986 when the blue turf was first put in, BSU wore contrasting pants.

The monochrome came in during the late '90s as far as I can tell, when monochrome uniforms first started to become a trend in general.

You misread my comment. I didn't say BSU went all-blue when they put the turf in. I said I THOUGHT I read somewhere that going monochrome blue (I think early 00s actually) was purely for deceptive reasons. Whether it was to blend into the turf to make identification on game film difficult, or even for that split-second advantage where you can't positively identify a player peripherally. So even though monochrome became more of a fashion trend in recent years, I thought BSU had a more ulterior motive than trying to sell merchandise.

[oldschoolvikings]

By the way, I'm pretty sure I've read that the opposing teams complaints are NOT that you can't see the players during a game, but that its hard to make out all the details on game films, therefore affecting preparation. I'm not sure how many of us are in a position to judge the validity of that particular complaint.

[JayMac]

I cant wait until someone finds the loop hole in this and exposes the NCAA blazer-wearing bozos. I hope a team decides to go all white during a snow storm, as mentioned above.

I was thinking the same. Hopefully Penn State will play an away game in a blizzard. Will the NCAA make them wear colored mesh pinnies ?

[jstraper]

The thing is...why is this suddenly a topic of contention?

I'm thinking the Mountain West moaned to the NCAA.

[Lights Out]

Boise and others should just consider growing up.

Seriously? The blue turf is a tradition. It's college football, not the pros: it's not supposed to be "grown up."

[RyanB06]

The thing is...why is this suddenly a topic of contention?

I'm thinking the Mountain West moaned to the NCAA.

Of course they did. Doesn't the MW already have a conference rule banning monochrome blue for BSU? Natural extension.

[pianoknight]

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3t08sw/

[BBTV]

I cant wait until someone finds the loop hole in this and exposes the NCAA blazer-wearing bozos. I hope a team decides to go all white during a snow storm, as mentioned above.

I was thinking the same. Hopefully Penn State will play an away game in a blizzard. Will the NCAA make them wear colored mesh pinnies ?

Actually, I don't think it's unreasonable to require some kind of fluorescent or highly-visible uniform during the most extreme of blizzards (especially at night). Maybe just helmet caps would work, but while we all enjoy watching the blizzard games, I would have to think that the risk of injury is at least a little higher in those circumstances.