NCAA Committee extends men’s 3-point line to 20-9

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Beginning with the 2008-09 season, assuming the measure is approved May 25 by the Playing Rules Oversight Committee, the line will move back a full foot to 20 feet, 9 inches. The committee chose, however, not to expand the size of the lane.

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70 Responses to NCAA Committee extends men’s 3-point line to 20-9

  1. CedarGroveWolf 05/04/2007 at 10:25 AM #

    ^ a ’93 alum who loves the Pack & overall good dude.

  2. beowolf 05/04/2007 at 10:54 AM #

    Stay on topic, please.

  3. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 11:05 AM #

    It’s funny, but as a kid I can remember seeing the first high school player I ever saw dunk a basketball, his name, where it was, and everything about the night it happened. He was like a god to us kids, and the whole gym got quiet and stopped to watch everytime his turn came during warm ups. It’s definitely changed since then, but raising the rim has always been a bad idea. I have trouble getting a three to the rim now, not that anyone cares about that except me and my bruised ego. But it’s kind of like the game of golf, I know I don’t want to walk out to tee off on a par threes, and see them all becoming 275 or 300 yards, even though there are many in the amateur and professional ranks who can easily reach them now.

  4. CedarGroveWolf 05/04/2007 at 1:38 PM #

    BTW, T. Smith has signed.

  5. legacyman 05/04/2007 at 1:57 PM #

    Raising the rim is not a bad idea…you just think it is, for some of you. I watched many years of college basketball where no one could dunk and it made no difference in the entertainment value.

    Basketball was meant to be a game of skill and being able to stand on one’s toes and slam a ball over the rim is not talent ala some pituitary freak as in 7’8″.

    For the poster who can’t get the ball to the rim from the three point line and doesn’t want the rim raised…take up checkers.

  6. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 05/04/2007 at 2:00 PM #

    I’ve often felt the rim should be higher for today’s athletes. I can assure you that when James Naismith hung two peach baskets on a 10 foot high railing at the YMCA in Massachusetts, he didn’t hand the soccer ball to a 6’8 guy with 35″ vertical jump or 48″ in David Thompson case.

    I think 12 feet is a little high
    ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhE0eJe5KI ) as seen here but 10.5 or 11 feet would be reasonable. Watching the NBA now is more or less like watching MLB playing on the little league world series field.

  7. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 2:08 PM #

    legacyman

    Now, that wasn’t nice. But I can still get it there, just not like before. And BTW, I don’t need the slam to make the game entertaining. Just like I don’t need palm, the hand checks, or the laxed calls for traveling and everything else. The game is being robbed, but it isn’t the rims that are at fault.

  8. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 2:11 PM #

    ^Stick to the rules, get rid of the playground crap, and the game will go back, and be better than it is right now.

  9. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 2:20 PM #

    The NBA style of play is a joke, just take the recent euro thrashings as an example. I can’t believe that the NCAA has allowed their overt sloppiness to become part of the amateur game. IF the NCAA had stayed on track and had not been sucked in and gone with the flow that the NBA was dictating, the college game would be even more immensely popular than it is today. The NBA would still be, well, a joke.

  10. noah 05/04/2007 at 2:42 PM #

    Compared to the tv ratings for the NBA, I think college basketball can definitely say that it qualifies as “immensely popular.”

    Of course…compared to the NBA, *everything* can say that.

  11. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 05/04/2007 at 2:55 PM #

    I read the other day the PBS show about Mormons had more viewers than a playoff game. I know I haven’t watched a game since the Bird/Johnson years.

  12. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 3:01 PM #

    noah, how popular is popular enough? Who knows.

    But what I was trying to say is that whether people admit it or not, the desire that used to be represented by playing for a university, in front of huge and adoring college crowds, and four years of living the college life with new friends and everything else, has been short circuited because the NCAA catered more and more the NBA style. The opportunity to excel on the college basketball court is now viewed as a short stop over, an NBA mini-camp with just slightly different rules, and something that has nothing to do with playing with, or for, the university which they represent. It’s all about the next level, the sooner the better, big dollar signs, and that is the NCAA’s fault.

  13. TNCSU 05/04/2007 at 3:31 PM #

    ^^^BTW, T. Smith has signed.

    Great news — where did you see/hear it?

  14. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 3:34 PM #

    t-t-t

    Didn’t that PBS Mormon thing, somehow all relate to Kobe in the end?

  15. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 3:38 PM #

    I really wanted to hear something more in order of Smith qualified…then signed. Hopefully both are a given now.

  16. CedarGroveWolf 05/04/2007 at 3:38 PM #

    TNCSU, Statefans has some non-prem info

  17. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 3:52 PM #

    Where do we get more on Smith?

  18. TNCSU 05/04/2007 at 3:58 PM #

    I couldn’t find anything anywhere….I’ll let you all know if I can dig something up. I’d really like to know who else we may be targeting in 2008 and 2009. I’m sure the coaches have been hot on the recruiting trail lately, although I think that recruiting (traveling) ended on the 1st.

  19. packpigskinfan23 05/04/2007 at 4:11 PM #

    raising the rim would not change JUST the dunks guys… it will change the long range shots, mid range shots, AND layups.

    “Basketball was meant to be a game of skill and being able to stand on one’s toes and slam a ball over the rim is not talent ala some pituitary freak as in 7′8″.”
    I agree with your concept of the talent today, but I cant really agree that basketball was ment to be some great skilled game. It was made for girls to pass time in PE. I am glad for the evolution of the game(or else I would NEVER watch it), but by raising the rim you nullify every record ever set, you change the game in such a way that guys like Engin Atsur and Gavin Grant may not even be able to play it anymore. Sure there are a bunch of guys who can dunk with ease… but dosnt it put a smile on your face when you see a guy like Spudd Webb dunk?!?!

  20. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 4:32 PM #

    A dunk is equivalent to my weak lay up. There is nothing about either, that is hurting the game. I don’t understand the gripe with the dunk? The dunk is more prevalent because of the better athletes these days. BUT, like I said earlier, but no less due in part because of degradation of all of the other traditional rules that allow it to happen more easily. A running start with three steps to the basket, where it used to be one and half steps or a travel was called. You start enforcing the rules and make the players have get to the basket like they once had to, it’s not so easy then, and the dunking will minimize itself. The short range jump shot will become of value again and also return to the game.

  21. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 05/04/2007 at 4:38 PM #

    You leave the goal at 10 feet for the college game and raise it to 10.5 for the monsters in the NBA. I’m pretty sure no one cares about NBA records? The problem isn’t the dunk it is the fact that these athletes are playing a game that is too easy for them for most people to find entertaining.

    Moving the field goal post to the back of the end zone added 10 yards to a FG attempt, baseball fields are all different sizes and the strike zone seems to change from year to year. I don’t see how making the game a little more challenging would be of anything but a benefit.

  22. packpigskinfan23 05/04/2007 at 4:45 PM #

    ttt-my only prob with that is if there are TOO many changes between the college and pro game it makes it that much tougher on kids to transition. I’m not playing any violin for these guys or anything, but some of my favorite basketball players in college- I want to see excell in the pro game. a simple change of moving back that 3-point line isnt gonna affect anyone outside the likes of JJ Redick… moving up the hoop would affect everyone. Especially shooters. think about it that way… the shooters loose their advantage of shooting when they change from NCAA to NBA, so what is the solution? dunk it more. it might just do the opposite of the desired.

  23. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 5:55 PM #

    ppsf23

    You are exactly right.

    I don’t know for sure but I don’t think that Veto “set shot” Ranzinaluchi or Turks “die eye” McGillicutti, or any of the ghosts from back in the magic year of *1927*, or whenever, could shoot anything like Rodney Monroe or JJ Reddick.

    You can’t damage the whole game to eliminate one aspect that could be better controlled by just imterpreting the rules as they are written.

  24. redfred2 05/04/2007 at 8:36 PM #

    correction…the magic year was of course *1924*

  25. beowolf 05/05/2007 at 12:34 AM #

    If Smith has indeed signed, then you can upgrade me from jazzed to stoked about next season.

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