Butler to the Bobcats

[ChicosBailBonds]

Haha, this is a laughable statement. Here are a few of the "minor" rule differences between the NFL and NCAA football:

-Possession (1 ft vs 2 feet)
-Player downed (no contact vs contact)
-Different ball placement (hash marks)
-Different overtime rules
-Different penalties (most notably pass interference)
-Different timing (25 sec play clock vs 40 second, wait for ball to be "ready to play" vs no wait)
-PAT placement (3 yd line vs 2 yd line)
-Defensive PAT scoring (legal in college vs none in NFL)
-Different instant replay rules
-NCAA footballs have 2 white stripes
-College has no 2 minute warning

Yup, and most minor in nature.  Really, the PAT placement....really?  So the conversion in one is 99.7% and in the other is 99.6%...major difference. 

The overtime rules...cool, because so many games go to overtime. 

The play clock...you mean when teams aren't actually playing but waiting for the play to come in and both sides are in a huddle with no action on the field....keep going. 

I acknowledged the hash marks and PI rules change already in a prior post.  On average how many PI calls per game in the NFL and in college....you might be interested to know that piece of information.    

The others, yeah I agree with but they are not at the level of the differences between college basketball and NBA basketball.   I'd add a few more that I didn't the other day.  Five second defensive turnover...in college ball you are rewarded for forcing a player to give up the ball if you play on him in 5 seconds...no such thing in pro..the guy can yo-yo it the whole time (thus encouraging less on the ball defense as a result).



I suspect most people recognize that college basketball differences from the NBA game are more stark than college football to the NFL.

[rocky_warrior]

Props to brew and hoopaloop for trying to get this back on topic.  Unfortunately, it seems doomed to NBA trashing, and options discussion. 

You know what that means...