ChicagoBears.com Chalk Talk, “Why all the Sooners?”, ha ha, well the Sooners KICK ASS

May 31, 2006 at 10:15 pm | In Chicago Bears, Dusty Dvoracek, J.D. Runnels, Mark Bradley, Oklahoma Sooners, Tommie Harris | 1 Comment

Larry: It seems that the Bears have taken a liking to Oklahoma players. Being a Sooners fan I love seeing Tommie Harris, Mark Bradley, Dusty Dvoracek and J.D. Runnels on the team. Is there a connection between someone with the Bears and the Sooners?

Christopher V.
Michigan

Christopher: There's no direct connection between the Bears and Oklahoma as far as I know. But general manager Jerry Angelo believes in focusing on prospects at elite Division I schools and Oklahoma has been one of the most successful big-time programs in the country in recent years. It's really as simple as that. Oklahoma has produced a plethora of quality players and the Bears have been happy to acquire those prospects and begin developing them.

The NCAA will allow a football coach to challenge one ruling by officials per game and have it reviewed by replay, provided his team has an available timeout.

May 31, 2006 at 10:13 am | In NCAA Footall rule changes | Leave a Comment

NDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA will allow a football coach to challenge one ruling by officials per game and have it reviewed by replay, provided his team has an available timeout.Under a proposal approved Tuesday by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel that goes into effect this season, if a coach's challenge is successful, no timeout will be charged.

"This revised proposal achieves the intended result of the rules committee to incorporate a challenge into the video replay system," panel chairman John Cochrane said.

The NCAA allowed the use of video replays at all schools and conferences last season, and nine of the 11 Division I-A conferences used some form of replay. The revision to include the challenge by coaches was proposed by the Football Rules Committee.

Georgia coach Mark Richt was initially against the change, saying "it's one more thing to worry about." But he also thinks it could come in handy.

"I'm sure there will be a time or two that I'll be glad that it's in place," Richt said Tuesday. "The thing I don't like about it is not really knowing for sure when to throw it. I haven't lived through it. The fans may be booing or a player may be like, 'Throw the flag,' or I might in my heart want to throw the flag. But if I throw it at the wrong time, I lose the possibility of that for the rest of the game. I wish I had a good way of knowing when I ought to throw the darn thing. But I guess we all have the same problem."

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