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On the one hand, this benefits Stanford as it allows for substitutions and gives the defense 10 seconds between plays.  Since we don't use this type of offense, and our opponents do, good for us.

I disagree. This is bad for us. We're one of the few slow-paced teams that can stop fast-paced teams. That's a distinctive edge. Were this rule to pass, and it blunted the effectiveness of fast-paced teams, we'd lose some differentiation.
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I doubt it would. The spread coaches going into high dudgeon about this are just doing what they have to do (I think the offensive part of this, in their minds, is the idea of attacking the spread at all, not the efficacy of this particular rule), but really this won't make much difference. For instance, someone on reddit looked at last year's Oregon-Stanford game and Oregon hiked it with >29 seconds on the clock 4 times, and none of those were faster than 31s. I really doubt that giving the defense 1-2 extra seconds to sub on ~5 plays per game is going to matter at all.

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[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=9557.msg83861#msg83861 date=1392344156]
On the one hand, this benefits Stanford as it allows for substitutions and gives the defense 10 seconds between plays.  Since we don't use this type of offense, and our opponents do, good for us.

I disagree. This is bad for us. We're one of the few slow-paced teams that can stop fast-paced teams. That's a distinctive edge. Were this rule to pass, and it blunted the effectiveness of fast-paced teams, we'd lose some differentiation.
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I doubt it would. The spread coaches going into high dudgeon about this are just doing what they have to do (I think the offensive part of this, in their minds, is the idea of attacking the spread at all, not the efficacy of this particular rule), but really this won't make much difference. For instance, someone on reddit looked at last year's Oregon-Stanford game and Oregon hiked it with >29 seconds on the clock 4 times, and none of those were faster than 31s. I really doubt that giving the defense 1-2 extra seconds to sub on ~5 plays per game is going to matter at all.