According to Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, leaders of college football are nearing a decision to implement helmet communications, use of tablets on the sideline and in the locker room during halftime as well as the two-minute warning, which are all prevalent in the NFL.
West Virginia has been a team that has done trial runs for helmet communication, which they’ve used the past two springs as well as their Bowl game against UNC in December.
“I really do believe it’s going to get passed and it should (helmet communication). The is how many units are going to be on the field at one time, is there a cut-off or not? But I think you’ll see that and other technology pieces go through. Having access to iPads on the sideline and those types of things,” WVU head coach Neal Brown said while on the On3 podcast with Andy Staples. “If you look at an NFL sideline and you look at a college sideline, drastically different. It’s just a bad look for college football (current signal calling) and this is an opportunity to clean it up.”
The NFL began using helmet communications 30 years ago and after two days of debate “The NCAA Rules Committee is scheduled to vote on the changes in a recommendation to the NCAA Division I Council,” according to Dellenger.
The two-minute warning is being proposed as a two-minute timeout to help teams maneuver late-game situations without having to burn a timeout of their own.
The recommendations are expected to be finalized on Friday.
