If You Were the Commissioner...

[JayV]

College football: player injured and has to leave the field of play, stopping the clock, that injured player has to sit out until ball possession changes. Intent is to put an end to fake injuries for clock purposes

 

[cyfan964]

NFL - One foot in equals catch
NBA - flops equal fouls
MLB - umps no longer call balls/strikes at all
Soccer - flops equal yellow card, no offsides in the box
NHL - no offsides

 

[BCClone]

This one is so easy. Make all fumbles go back to the point of the fumble or where the ball went out of bounds - whichever is more disadvantageous to the fumbling team. I'd be OK if fumbles into the end zone came with a yardage penalty.

The fumbling through the end zone one though really doesn’t give the defense a chance to recover very well if it’s through the back of the end zone

 

[apiaryaviary1]

I would kick Baylor out of the big XII.

Sometimes I imagine the funny scenario where super league is formed, Iowa is in the "last 4 out", and Iowa State is the petty deciding vote to keep them out of the B12, so they have to join Oregon St and Wazzu in the wilderness

 

[NickTheGreat]

In football, if a player has to be walked off the field, he's out for the rest of the series.

In basketball, if you retie your shoes more than once in a game, causing a delay, the shoelaces are attached to your foot with a staple gun.

 

[Cycsk]

Add a few more yards to the "illegal downfield" rule. I hate it when an offensive lineman beats his man (or his man steps out of the way) and the offensive lineman steps forward and gets penalized.

 

[cyclones500]

College football: A stopwatch for "instant" replay review. I favor 90 seconds, but two minutes is probably OK. Whatever is established, it has to be enforced.

Other elements of the replay system probably are open to adjustments, but that's at least a starting (and ending) point.

 

[ISUTex]

Its the offseason, and a lot of the discussion around the World Cup and soccer rules makes it clear that it's been too long since we have been able to complain about officiating, and also that every sport could use some changes.

So, if you had the power to make or change any rule, or the way a rule is enforced, etc, in any sport, what would you change?

There should be soccer/hockey offsides in football and basketball. Just kidding. See how dumb that is?

 

[ISUTex]

I also hate that a running back is allowed to stiff-arm a defender in the facemask as long as he doesn't grab it. Any contact with the head is dangerous at game speed.

You would think that would be illegal hands to the face on the RB. It should be.

 

[cytor]

Move Iowa to the Mountain West Conference.

 

[VeloClone]

There should be soccer/hockey offsides in football and basketball. Just kidding. See how dumb that is?

Yeah, it's almost like they are different sports...

 

[Koala]

There already is a rule in soccer that a dive results in a yellow card. How consistently it's enforced is of course another matter but I can recall multiple occasions where it's resulted in a second yellow and gotten someone sent off.

 

[Kinch]

Kick any team that harbored pedophiles out of college athletics

 

[iastatefan1]

Wrestling-add pushout
Soccer-add a similar rules as hockey for offside and icing. Having defenders up too far when the other team is attacking (being bad at defending) should not be rewarded.

 

[AllInForISU]

Kick any team that harbored pedophiles out of college athletics

Welp…Iowa State is out then, huh?