Deion Sanders wants to see standardized rules across both college and pro football.<\/p>\n
Sanders said at the Big 12 media days that the NCAA should adopt the NFL\u2019s rules to better prepare college players for the pros. Sanders cited the NFL\u2019s rule requiring receivers to get two feet in bounds on a catch and placing the ball at the spot of the foul on pass interference as rules he\u2019d like to see applied to college football.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like the professional rules to be implemented in college,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cThey\u2019re getting ready to be pros. So let\u2019s go two feet in on the catches. Let\u2019s mark the foul with pass interference. Let\u2019s do the same thing the pro game is, let\u2019s do it in college.\u201d<\/p>\n
Current NCAA rules require only one foot down on a catch, and cap pass interference penalties at 15 yards. Sanders didn\u2019t specify whether he wants the NCAA and NFL rulebooks to be identical, but other significant changes between the college and pro game include overtime rules, certain timing rules, the placement of the hashmarks on the field, and whether a ball carrier needs to be touched by a defender to be ruled down by contact.<\/p>\n
Standardizing the rules might help to prepare college players for the pros, but many fans enjoy some of the differences between the two sports, and the NCAA has never viewed itself as just a minor league for the NFL. It\u2019s unlikely that Sanders\u2019 proposal would get much traction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders wants to see standardized rules across both college and pro football. Sanders said at the Big…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-59113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114839299377599740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}