Flopping in college basketball

by **glm38** » October 3rd, 2012, 7:40 pm

With the NBA cracking down on flopping this year - I wonder if the NCAA will follow suit in the next few years? Maybe they will adopt a watch and see approach. I'm all for it but it may be problematic to enforce.

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by **musiccitybulldog** » October 4th, 2012, 3:55 am

Seems that an official has to be able to recognize a foul and call it one way or the other, real time, thats officiating. The complaint or fix doesn't seem logical. Seems the move could be more of a reaction to replay results.

by **2livewu** » October 4th, 2012, 2:15 pm

If they do crackdown, it will serve as the death nail for the Panther program.

by **valleychamp** » October 4th, 2012, 2:20 pm

2nd post. That took about as long as expected.

btw, the phrase is "death knell".

by **MoValley John** » October 4th, 2012, 2:50 pm

valleychamp wrote:
btw, the phrase is "death knell".

I've heard it both ways. :dance:

Sorry, just had to interject a humorous catchphrase from Psych.

by **glm38** » October 4th, 2012, 4:21 pm

musiccitybulldog wrote:Seems that an official has to be able to recognize a foul and call it one way or the other, real time, thats officiating. The complaint or fix doesn't seem logical. Seems the move could be more of a reaction to replay results.

Yeah my understanding is the Nba is going to review game film after the fact and levy fines based on how they interpret things. Not sure that would be possible in the college game. I do wish there was some way to control it though.

by **agrinut** » October 4th, 2012, 4:54 pm

2livewu wrote:If they do crackdown, it will serve as the death nail for the Panther program.

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000.01

by **MoValley John** » October 4th, 2012, 5:25 pm

http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=Death%20Nail

I knew I had heard it both ways!

by **uniftw** » October 4th, 2012, 5:30 pm

valleychamp wrote:2nd post. That took about as long as expected.

btw, the phrase is "death knell".

I'm shocked it took that long.

by **DoubleJayAlum** » October 4th, 2012, 7:26 pm

valleychamp wrote:2nd post. That took about as long as expected.

Seems like an easily cured situation to me. Stop flopping and nobody would say a word. It has, unfortunately, become a chronic, repetitive situation at UNI.

Monetary fines would never work at the college level, but for conference games only, a conference could institute rules for suspension. They do something like that in soccer already -- if you have a certain number of cards, you are suspended for a game. I'd love to see a rule like that for flopping.