Fake It Until You Make It?Football Coaches Want NCAA To Rule On Feigning Injuries

Apparently, faking injuries is a thing in college football. Or at least enough of a thing that the American Football Coaches Association has asked the NCAA rules committee to address the issue when it meets in March.

"Our ethics committee, which suggests rules changes to the NCAA, said by unanimous consent that this has got to stop," AFCA executive director Todd Berry said, via ESPN. "So they asked the rules committee to do something about it. It's bad for football."

Today, rules regarding player injuries don't address the possibility of faking them. Instead, it merely states that when the clock stops for an injury, the injured player has to sit out one snap before returning.

"Rules need to have teeth," Berry said. "And if there's no teeth, there's no impact."

The committee did discuss the topic at least year's meeting, but no changes were made. So the possibility of using injuries to stop the clock as an extra timeout remained under question this past season.

"It's time," Berry said. "... There needs to be a harsh deterrent."