00:00How about some college basketball news now?
00:03Some changes in terms of some college basketball rules
00:05in the competition committee this week.
00:08In DRS, there is, quote,
00:09positive momentum to switch men's college basketball
00:13from 20-minute halves to four quarters,
00:16as we see basically in every other form of basketball
00:19internationally as well.
00:21Oh, this is good.
00:22You know what?
00:22We only have 30 seconds left,
00:24so I'm going to stall right here, Ben.
00:25We can talk about it.
00:25We've got to come back after because, yeah,
00:27we are going to talk about it next.
00:28I want to set this up because I didn't pay attention
00:31all that much to the rundown right here
00:32to get to the intricacies of what we're going to talk about.
00:35I didn't see that tweet here,
00:37but the fact that it came up and I read the first two lines
00:39then shifted to the bottom line here,
00:42oh, we are going to have a good segment coming up next, people,
00:45because I don't know if I can even make it
00:47through the commercial break.
00:48I'm trying to stall right now because I am energized,
00:50but I just saw it here, and I can't wait to talk about it.
00:53I'm being serious.
00:54If only you looked at the rundown just a little bit earlier
00:57there have been a lot of rule changes this week in college basketball.
01:04College coaches can now challenge at any point in the game,
01:08trailing or otherwise, which we hope will speed up the process
01:12and eliminate late-game reviews from referees
01:16when a ball is out of bounds or something of the sort.
01:19The refs can no longer just go to the table and do this.
01:22To pause the game in the final 30 seconds to review,
01:25a coach has to challenge if they disagree with the whistle on the floor.
01:29And then this one, DRS, which is a big one yesterday.
01:33There is, quote, positive momentum to switch men's college basketball
01:37from 20-minute halves to quarters.
01:39The NCAA says hurdles still remain,
01:42including the structure of media timeouts.
01:45Again, men's college hoops is basically the only form of basketball
01:49at a high level, including the women's game collegiately
01:52that still uses 20-minute halves and not four quarters.
01:57Yeah, sometimes I like uniqueness, right?
01:59Because I do think it's kind of interesting that the college structure
02:01is to 20 minutes, and we're used to the way a game plays out.
02:04But here's where we get into the stuff that doesn't get me in trouble.
02:07It gets the people that put these rules out in trouble by me, Ben,
02:11if that makes sense.
02:12Let's understand this.
02:12Pull that tweet back up.
02:13Can we get it so we can all read it together
02:15and really digest what they're saying?
02:17So the first segment says, look, there is positive momentum
02:19to switch men's college basketball from 20-minute halves to quarters,
02:23the NCAA says.
02:24So meaning like, okay, we're meeting for all the right reasons.
02:27You know what?
02:28Is the game better for the people watching it here
02:30if we change it this way?
02:32Will the game be better for the players itself?
02:34We have more structure than 220 minutes, which nobody does that anymore.
02:37Let's get more uniform with, you know, FIBA rules,
02:39with the NBA rules and women's college basketball.
02:41And it just makes some sense because we're used to four quarters at this point.
02:45So I say, you know what?
02:45Man, that's a pretty good idea.
02:47The right heads are prevailing.
02:48And then one guy in the room goes, yeah, but it might make it really good,
02:53but we can still ruin it by making sure we can actually throw in an extra two TV timeouts.
02:58Like, why would that even be included?
03:00But we are trying to make the game better, which the original premise is trying to do.
03:05How can we make it better for the players, for the coaches, for the fans, and TV itself here,
03:10which just comes across better.
03:12But then we go, well, if it makes the game better, but we have to ruin TV timeouts
03:17and we can't get as many in, let's just keep it 2-20 because we'll keep it the same.
03:20It's where I get so angry at the bowl system.
03:23We don't need those here that we have a college football playoff.
03:25But somebody goes, well, how am I going to get my million-dollar-a-year contract here
03:29with the Rose Bowl committee when that's all I do at this point?
03:31So even though the game would be better if the Rose Bowl, quote-unquote, is played at Penn State
03:36and we can do the same thing, we got to have it in California.
03:39So Penn State fans can have to pay an extra $10,000 to get there.
03:43Iowa fans have to pay an extra $10,000 to get there.
03:45You see where we're going.
03:46So this whole thing, I just got angry.
03:48It's like, ooh, 2-20-minute halves, let's do away with it to go.
03:50You know what?
03:51I don't know if we can change it for the better because how can we make more money on more TV timeouts?
03:55Oh, my God, Ben, make it stop.
03:58The almighty dollar, DRS.
04:01You want to understand why a decision is made or a lack of decision is going to be made?
04:07You can always follow the money.
04:09And what we have learned in the highest level of collegiate athletics, that TV revenue,
04:15those TV rights deals, the TV contracts, the TV money, oh, boy, that is undefeated.
04:22So if in men's college basketball, they can institute with their television partners a few more TV timeouts to get a few more commercials and some more ad revenue in there, they are going to do so.
04:36Even if it hurts the overall product and, frankly, DRS, the flow of the game.
04:42It is an interesting thing to break up a 20-minute half into the under-16, the under-12, the under-8, the under-4, and still have some coaches' timeouts as well.
04:54College basketball games are supposed to take about two hours.
04:59They often take about 215, 220 because of those TV timeouts.
05:04And, again, men's college basketball is the only level of this sport that is not in four quarters.
05:11The product would benefit, but are they going to allow so after the TV revenue is up for debate as well?
05:19That remains the question.
05:21And also, you know what's funny, too?
05:23Like, soccer is so big worldwide.
05:25The envy I have for soccer, and, again, it's not based in the United States, right?
05:29So it's like, you're telling me I can watch an entire half without a commercial break, nonstop action.
05:33Then you take a break at the half, you run commercials, you come back in the second half, and I can watch it all the way through.
05:38Understand this.
05:39If we in the United States created soccer, Ben, every five minutes, we'd have a break with a timeout in soccer.
05:44The ball would go out of bounds, they'd blow the whistle, and everybody would go back to their bench,
05:48and we'd take a three-minute commercial break and then play five more minutes.
05:51You understand that?
05:52Can you imagine the NFL or watching college basketball where we didn't have commercial breaks during the action
05:57and only at the half or the end of the game?
05:59Make me commissioner.
06:01We will all have so much fun in this sport.
06:03We would.
06:04We really would.
06:05The only question I think, DRS, for your board of governors would be,
06:09are you costing us TV revenue, which is that sad reality?
06:13He is not.
06:14All right.
06:15Elect Donnie Wrightside is commissioner of every sport.
06:18Hour number two up next.
