OT and the NCAA
Free advice to college coaches faced with the prospect of playing overtime on the road: Avoid it. There have been nine OT games involving Division I-A teams so far in 2004, and the home team has won seven of them.
It's time for the NCAA to change its OT rule to conform to the NFL standard. Play it out. If 15 extra minutes fail to resolve the matter, call it a draw. If the rationale for the current system is the welfare of the student-athlete, why did some teams play 14 games last year? Why did everybody play 12 instead of 11?
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Ah - play it out, you say. Too many people feel like it is like "kissing your sister" to end in a tie.
So the NCAA has the brilliant idea of taking turns.
The sad fact is that sometimes, it takes 6 overtimes to settle a game.
So what's the answer? Who knows...maybe play overtime without helmets?
Posted on September 30, 2004 2:23 PM
Women's College Cup
Michigan gives up three leads, but beats Miami 4-3 on Chavez overtime goal.
ANN ARBOR, Mich (Wednesday, November 8, 2000) -- Freshman Stephanie Chavez ended a thrilling game by finding net for the second time -- this one early in a second sudden-death overtime period -- to lift No. 24 Michigan to a 4-3 decision over Miami of Ohio in a first-round NCAA tournament match at U-M Soccer Field this afternoon. Next up for UM is a visit to No. 1 Notre Dame Sunday at 1 p.m. "We go into the game having nothing to lose as the underdogs against the tournament’s top seeded team said Michigan coach Debbie Belkin Rademacher. "Notre Dame is a good, experienced team, and maybe they are ripe for an upset. We will need to focus and play confidently with aggressiveness.
Posted on October 15, 2004 6:31 AM