College sports have avoided communication between coaches and players, even though it is welcomed at the professional level.
However, that may start to change after ESPN reports that the NCAA has given the FBS the green light to begin using it in games. An attempt was made in a bowl game last season, and it appears to have been successful.
This should make signals partially a thing of the past, but these communications could be cut off at the 15-second mark and old-fashioned signals may still be needed for coaches and players .
“For games involving FBS teams, each team is given the option to use coach-player communication via the helmet of one player on the field (indicated by a green dot in the midline of the helmet).” Several teams used helmet communications during the recent bowl season, and it will now be an option for all games in the sport's top division,” ESPN's Adam Rittenberg wrote.
Mark Stoops and Kentucky haven't had the sign-stealing issues Michigan has been accused of in the past, but it would be an easy decision to take the easier route and implement program changes. .
But that's not the only change; the NCAA is also implementing a new version of the NFL's two-minute warning.
“The NCAA committee also approved automatic timeouts with two minutes left in the second and fourth quarters, similar to the NFL's two-minute warning,” Rittenberg wrote.
However, for better or worse, the situation appears to be changing to something more like the NFL.
