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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1045041, member: 405"]
Agree that college basketball needs fixing, but don't think those are the answers.

To me:

1.  Call the fouls, dammit.  It's not that hard.  The old charge/block rule was just fine.  The guy was supposed to have established position with both feet on the ground before the guy starts his move. Let's get back to that.

2.  Call the fouls, dammit, part 2.  Stop letting people mug players as they come up the floor.  Stop the moving picks, stop the bumps as players cross the lane, etc.  Call the fouls!

3. If refs called the fouls consistently, players would be forced to adjust.  The writer of the article wants 6 fouls so that good players remain on the floor - this is so wrongheaded.  We did that in the Big East 1 year and it turned the game into a rugby match - even more physical!  Terrible idea.

4. If players are not impeded so many times on every possession, the scoring will go back up.  There's no need to play with the shot clock, although if they did cut it to 30 seconds, it would probably give our defense an even greater advantage.

5.   Paying the players?  What does that have to do with watching the game?
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