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THURSDAY, MARCH 6.2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"They're trying to downgrade our value versus continuing to put an emphasis on kicking. They're trying to minimize the importance of kickers."
Adam Vinatieri
IUSA Today
FACT OF THE DAY
3691 of 3709 PATs were made the past 3 seasons
mmqb.si.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many PAT attempts out of 1267 were missed last season?
A:5
- USA Today
THE MORNING BREW
Controversy surrounds extra points in NFL
W
th the recent publicity of player concussions in the NFL, changes, such
as moving kickoff up 10 yards and allowing receivers more time to catch the ball, have been made to protect players.
This off-season player safety is still a concern for the NFL, but a different change to the game has sparked a heated debate among players and coaches.
That possible change is moving the extra point back.
According to the Sports Illustrated MMQB, the NFL competitions committee met and proposed a move that would send the line of scrimmage for a PAT to the 25-yard line, which would make it around a 42-yard extra point.
The arguments from coaches who want this change are simple: the extra point is no longer an appropriate or
By Matt Corte sports@kansan.com
competitive play in the NFL because of how easy it is to make. Statistics back up this opinion, as kickers in the past three seasons have made 99.5 percent of their PAT attempts.
In 1912, when the extra point was established, any player on the team from a quarterback to a defensive lineman could take the PAT.
Today's teams have two to three kickers with each one having the ability to make 100 of 100 extra points. Clearly something needs to be changed.
Just look at baseball, basketball and hockey: it's hard to find a crucial point being given away so freely like those in the NFL.
On Sundays in the NFL, there could be more than 10 games where a single
point matters, so shouldn't teams have to earn that point?
Even if commissioner Roger Goodell and all the coaches agree that it's in the NFL's best interest to make the PAT more challenging, the change still might not be made.
The reason for this lays with the owners.
If a proposal to change the extra point were to officially be made, then 24 out of 32 owners would need to agree in order for the proposal to pass.
agree in order for the pro to push According to some NFL insiders, owners don't see what's wrong with the status quo and aren't keen on changing something that's not broken. My question to them is: Are you crazy?
The PAT is outdated. It's broken.
If I said to all the owners,
"There's one play in a football game,
where no one gives a damn and changes the channel," they would ask how to fix that play.
And yet convincing the owners that a longer extra point is better still has to be done. It may take
a couple more years for this change to be made completely, but if owners want more people watching and attending games, then it's in their best interest to change the obsolete PAT of today into one that will bring more interest and excitement to the game in the future.
Edited by Alec Weaver
This week in athletics
Thursday
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Friday
Softball
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Tampa, Fla.
Softball
South Florida
3:30 p.m.
Tampa, Fla.
Saturday
Women's basketball
TBD
TBA
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Baseball
Stanford
8 p.m.
Stanford, Calif.
Women's basketball
TBD
TBA
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Men's basketball
West Virginia
11 a.m.
Morgantown, W. Va.
Tennis
Tulsa
Noon
Tulsa, Okla
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Softball Utah 3 p.m. Tampa, Fla
Sunday
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Rowing
Scrimmage w/ Tulsa
TBA
Tulsa, Okla.
Women's basketball
TBD
TBA
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Baseball
Stanford
3 p.m.
Stanford, Calif.
Softball LIU 8 a.m. Tampa, Fla.
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Women's basketball
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TBA
Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Men's basketball
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TBA
Kansas City, Mo.
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