@jereseib what do you disagree with? That I didn't understand playing halves instead of quarters or that junior high, high school, and professional basketball play quarters while college basketball plays halves? Just curious.
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@jereseib what do you disagree with? That I didn't understand playing halves instead of quarters or that junior high, high school, and professional basketball play quarters while college basketball plays halves? Just curious.
I would hate to see the 1 and 1 go away. It comes into play so much in the 2nd half and has lost/won a lot of ball games.
Your post made it sound like you wanted to go to 4 qtrs. I don't like that idea.
I like change when it' for better good of the game. I dislike change when it's an attempt to squeeze even more advertising money into games by getting another 2 breaks per game.
They tried to do the same thing on Selection Sunday the year of the leaked bracket. Just try to prolong the show for more advertising money.
Is that because Nebraska struggled with the 4 quarter thing? Lol just giving you a hard time
Lol, no, because college basketball is great as it is, we don't need to model it after the NBA.
Just so you're clear....if they adopt the same media TO's as the women's game, there would actually be 1 less TV timeout. A break between qtrs and a media timeout at the first stoppage under 5 minutes of each qtr. The first called TO of the 2nd half is still converted to a full media TO
At the very least it should be 1 and 1 at the 4th foul and 2 shots at the 5th. It makes no sense that now you get to the free throw line on the 7th foul of a half but under those 4 quarter rules you could draw that 7th foul and another one (8th) in a half and never see the free throw line. Bob Huggins is licking his chops.
I couldn't care less if it was quarters, halves, or if they decided to play three periods like hockey. I'm going to watch regardless. It just has never made sense to me why they play halves instead of quarters.
It actually cuts down the number of media timeouts doesn't it? If I understand correctly, each half has two under 5 minute media timeouts and a quarter break as opposed to 4 media timeouts currently (16, 12, 8, and 4 minutes). Maybe the quarter break is twice as long though, I'm not sure about that.
My main gripe with quarters is you get 2 more times that one team just stands there and lets the clock run down.
Maybe that at every level leading up to men's college basketball players are playing quarters and every level after men's college basketball players are playing quarters. What make sense is to have some level of consistency.
Maybe everyone else is doing it wrong.
Partial jymlad applied.
College Basketball is the only version of basketball I watch. I don’t know if the half vs. quarters is the reason, I doubt it. This did remind me of the old parent saying though, “if everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?” So I couldn’t help but comment.
I don’t like the 5 fouls/quarter idea, that’s too much, IMO, but I don’t think I’d even notice the switch to quarters from halves after a few games.
I'd even go for 1-1 on fouls 3 and 4 and 2 at 5 and+. I think they want to make it easier on officials by getting rid of the 1-1.
Right now there is 4 media timeouts per half. This would give you 3 every 2 quarters.
I'm not sure it makes any difference. In quarters they have a media time out every 5 minutes plus the quarter break. In halves they have a media time out every 4 minutes so there is actually one more break each half that way.
I have nothing to back this up, but I feel like it has hurt ISU much more than it has helped.
