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per CBS:
The NCAA's new basketball rules to improve pace of play and reduce physicality are fine, but will the officials “have the stomach” to keep calling fouls? That's the question Kentucky coach John Calipari wants answered.
Speaking Wednesday at the SEC spring meetings, Calipari said the decision to reduce the shot clock from 35 to 30 seconds won't help or hurt the product. But if officials aren't instructed and don't follow through on calling fouls, Calipari said the game won't stop being so rough.
“Here's what the question will be: How long will they keep calling the fouls?” Calipari said. “Two years ago, we started this and then no one had the stomach for it. The teams that advanced in the NCAA Tournament that year fouled on every possession. So then we all — me included — went back to football practice. ‘That's it. Put helmets on. Let's go. That stuff was a bunch of BS.' And by the end of the year, that's how we played and basically made it to the Final Four playing football.”
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...s-will-have-the-stomach-to-keep-calling-fouls
Go Gophers!!
The NCAA's new basketball rules to improve pace of play and reduce physicality are fine, but will the officials “have the stomach” to keep calling fouls? That's the question Kentucky coach John Calipari wants answered.
Speaking Wednesday at the SEC spring meetings, Calipari said the decision to reduce the shot clock from 35 to 30 seconds won't help or hurt the product. But if officials aren't instructed and don't follow through on calling fouls, Calipari said the game won't stop being so rough.
“Here's what the question will be: How long will they keep calling the fouls?” Calipari said. “Two years ago, we started this and then no one had the stomach for it. The teams that advanced in the NCAA Tournament that year fouled on every possession. So then we all — me included — went back to football practice. ‘That's it. Put helmets on. Let's go. That stuff was a bunch of BS.' And by the end of the year, that's how we played and basically made it to the Final Four playing football.”
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...s-will-have-the-stomach-to-keep-calling-fouls
Go Gophers!!