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Once again, they're changing rules that won't impact much and ignoring the necessary changes that would actually improve the flow of the game. They have to do something about the timeouts at the end of the game. One simple change that would make a huge difference would be to go to the NBA model that you can't call a timeout after a made basket (because it's not your possession anymore). Every coach in the country uses the last three or four timeouts they own to set up pressure after a made basket. It makes the last two minutes of a game unbearable. I don't blame the coaches; those are the rules. So we need to change them.

And the shot clock, hand-checking, block/charge calls and horrific in-game officiating have to be addressed if they want to improve the product to any noticeable degree. Watching a Big 10 game, and particularly a team like Wisconsin, is just excruciating. It may be a reasonable way to coach and win, but it's literally sucking the life out of the sport.

The college product is weaker for a lot of different reasons that a few rules changes can't do anything about. It's disappointing that a sport I love so much is considerably worse today than it was thirty years ago. For the most part, the NCAA can't do much to change it without cooperation from the NBA. But they ought to at least address the issues that are killing its watchability.

I am not a fan of the added review time and ability to go to the monitor more often (although I am a fan of getting it right...). It is going to slow the game down to a snails pace.

They need to hire full time refs, limit the amount of games they call, and hire younger in shape refs. Maybe if they weren't fatigued, out of breath and not senile old men, they might get the calls right, limiting the amount of time needed for review.

I'm convinced that a lot of the time spent around the monitor is so they can catch their breath.

I know they call fouls when out of breath. Would not want that job!

What MB said plus clean up the rough play.

It is ridiculous how much those guys work.

I know one who is an athletic director at a High School and he is just never there during the season. It's a sore spot at that school.