Many college football coaches think the game’s targeting rule needs a trip to the review booth. Washington State’s Mike Leach would rather just abolish it.
Leach believes the penalty is too difficult to enforce, and therefore should be eliminated. And even though the Cougars have a clean track record this season, Leach would rather see the NCAA do away with the rule than gain 15 yards a pop every time WSU’s opponent commits an infraction.
“It’s a stupid rule, it’s a really stupid rule,” the coach said Monday during his weekly news conference.
A drastic increase in head injuries and brain trauma over the last decade-plus triggered NCAA officials to implement the targeting rule in 2008.