The NCAA’s proposing a rule that would mean more targeting penalties, and that’s a good thing

The targeting rule is serving the game well, and has enhanced player safety. Because this is such a severe penalty, we are instructing replay officials to review plays to ensure that the required elements of targeting exist. We are also adding the ability for the replay official to stop the game when a potential targeting foul is not detected on the field.

Just like the admittedly imperfect targeting rule, this will make the game more inconvenient to watch. It will make the game look even less like it did in the 1800s. Folks will get mad about that, and they will shout mad things several times, such as the following.

“Might as well play two-hand touch! In skirts! The solution is simply teaching the players how to tackle perfectly, because apparently I, with my high school football experience, know how to teach that better than the hundreds of full-time coaches do.”

And so forth.

We can either complain about an attempt at making players safer that also happens to break up game action and mean a bad call every now and then, or we can count down the days until football disappears. We can either accept minor changes (seriously, only about 10 percent of games even have a targeting ejection), or we can get rid of the whole thing. Those are the only options, as far as I see it.

Barry Sanders’ son is leaving Stanford to play at his pop’s alma mater, and that’s pretty good.

SEC legend Von Miller! It’s funny when conferences try to claim history that wasn’t theirs, but realignment’s put us all in a tough spot. Here’s the simple reason it happens.

Nice. The NFL Combine’s invites list is out, and 69 schools have more players on it than galactic financial overlord Texas. There’s an Ivy on there. An HBCU is on there. Rutgers appears.

Bill C team of the day: Rice! So ... what the hell happened last year, and can the Owls bounce back from it? Owls always bounce back from things.

The key to keeping your job as a football coach: don’t win too many games right away. Consider Kevin Sumlin and Brady Hoke.

The fact that 2017’s h y p e d No. 1 recruit, Dylan Moses, is even teasing a visit to Maryland is something.

Tomahawk Nation’s put together a scoring system that concludes Florida State has been the country’s best program over the last 30 years, and the fact you can even make a case for a school that was nothing special at all until the 1980s is something.

This CMU kicker who’s walking on at Iowa demands bigger stages for his kicking.

This is certainly an idea:

The Ole Miss NCAA thing won’t get any more dangerous than it is, as the Rebels say the investigation part is over and remain confident the eventual punishments won’t be quite what State fans are hoping. (Another potential good sign for the current coaching staff: Texas just fired an assistant who’d worked for the previous one, indicating again that that’s where part of the hammer’s falling.)

Purdue’s getting a new AD. Purdue had an AD? I’m sorry. I’m kidding.

Vote on the Verbies! Navy’s uniforms, Carly Fiorina’s Rose Bowl treachery and Baylor vs. Texas are the items on the ballot that I’ll most vigorously put on for, but how about you?