{"id":72300,"date":"2025-07-18T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72300\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:41:09","slug":"kiffin-rule-to-eliminate-faking-injuries-in-effect-for-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/72300\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kiffin rule\u2019 to eliminate faking injuries in effect for 202"},"content":{"rendered":"

Again, Kiffin nor Ole Miss are the first, the 10th or the 100th to pull that kind of stunt. Even hallowed Notre Dame was busted for it in 1953 when tackle Frank Varrichione hit the deck to stop the clock and prevent a loss to Iowa (they were dubbed \u201cThe Fainting Irish.\u201d<\/a>) But enough got to be enough.<\/p>\n

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey sent a memo to all of his coaches last season telling them in no uncertain terms to cut out the foolishness. \u201cCreating injury timeouts in these circumstances is not acceptable and is disrespectful to the game of college football,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPlay football and stop the feigned injury nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also announced a series of punishments, ranging from public reprimands accompanied by stiff fines to a one-game suspension upon third offense, for coaches, staffers and perhaps players, if they were found guilty. Kiffin responded that he was glad for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat sounds weird, coming from me,\u201d he admitted. \u201cWe\u2019re a tempo offense. Faking injuries hurts us more than anybody, along with Tennessee, in America. It happens to us more than anybody. It may surprise you, but I was really happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NCAA followed suit. Its main rule change<\/a> during the offseason was to state that if a player presents as injured after the official spots the ball, the player\u2019s team is charged a timeout. If the team has no timeouts, it\u2019s a 5-yard penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s good, I guess. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll have a problem with it,\u201d said linebacker T.J. Dottery, who began his career at Clemson before transferring to Ole Miss. \u201cIt\u2019s good that they did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other coaches chimed in the change as well. South Carolina\u2019s Shane Beamer seethed about it last year following a 27-3 peep of a defeat to Ole Miss at Williams-Brice Stadium, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s fascinating to me how many injuries occur for them after the opposing offense makes a first down or a big play. The timing of some of the injuries, it is a really bad look for college football, and it is not what this game is about if what it looks like is accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Again, Kiffin nor Ole Miss are the first, the 10th or the 100th to pull that kind of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72301,"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-72300","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\/114873583733695002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72300","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=72300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}