College football’s inevitable return is one thing to look forward to, no matter how long it takes. We’ve been talking a little about the history of of the WVU program and certain things we may never see again, but here’s one guarantee to anticipate: Someone will make history with the Mountaineers before too long.
The NCAA voted last week to let players wear 0 as a jersey number. Record keeping shows, uh, zero WVU players have worn the number before.
The Playing Rules Oversight Panel voted to allow no more than two teammates to wear the same jersey number. There was no limit before. Those teammates must still play different positions and can’t be on the field at the same time.
Duplicates have become increasingly common with 125 players allowed on a roster, and special teams action frequently sees the referee announce that one player is wearing a different jersey for that play because a teammate is also on the field and shares the original jersey number. This happened to WVU receiver George Campbell and safety Kerry Martin a bunch last season. Campbell was on the punt, punt return, kickoff and kickoff return teams. He and Martin wore No. 15.
What the new rule does, however, is limit a team to having 101 players in uniform for a game — that’s Nos. 1-99 and two duplicates. The NCAA decided to add to that by making 0 an acceptable number. Now a team can have 102 players.
“The Football Rules Committee recommended this adjustment to reduce the confusion caused by multiple players wearing the same number,” the announcement read. “Allowing more than two players with the same number has created confusion for the game officials and has made scouting opponents difficult. To respond to the popularity of single-digit numbers, players can wear '0’ as a legal number.”
The other rule changes for the 2020 season are similarly insignificant, but do have some meaning at WVU.
For some reason, pregame fracases at midfield seem to happen once or twice a year and when officials aren’t around to keep the peace. The panel agreed to give officials an extra 30 minutes of pregame jurisdiction and let them take control 90 minutes before kickoff.
A coach has to be on the field with players at all times, and “all players are to be identified by number.” This may require an interpretation or clarification, but it seems to mean players have to wear their jerseys, which might bug Neal Brown and his players. Last season, WVU players began their warmups without pads and jerseys. They wore generic team T-shirts instead. Brown started doing that in 2016 at Troy when players sweat too much and lost water weight in warmups. He asked the Mountaineers if they wanted to do the same.
"I said, 'Hey, this is what we did at Troy. We'll do whatever you want to do. If you want to warm up in pads, you'll warm up in pads. If you don't, then we won't,'" Brown said. "They said, 'No, we'd rather just warm up in just helmets.' So, that's what we're doing. If it gives them a psychological advantage, I'm all for it."
A player who is ejected for targeting, which is another part of the game the Mountaineers are familiar with, no longer has to be led off the field, through the tunnel and back to the locker room. He can instead remain on the sideline for the rest of the game.
Last year’s alteration to the targeting rule will remain in place. A season ago, officials were made to review targeting and overturn calls if "any element of targeting could not be confirmed.” That eliminated the prior option of reviewing the call and letting it stand because there wasn’t enough proof to overturn a call. That penalized players and overlooked the fact that there might also not have been enough proof to uphold a call. The revision "improved the accuracy of implementation.”
Replay, however, was adjusted by the oversight panel in a move championed as “the first time in football.” Officials now have to complete reviews in less than 2 minutes. It’s an expectation more than a demand, and the announcement acknowledged that complex calls and situations at the end of the game may require more time.
As for one of those sticky spots at the end, the panel said if the clock expires at the end of the first half or the end of regulation and replay finds that there was time remaining and the clock will start on the referee’s signal after the review, there must be at least three 3 remaining. If less than 3 seconds remain, the half or the game is over.
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