Did you know that a hit by a college football player these days can cause a serious injury or maybe even death? The targeting rule in college football makes an attempt to prevent these kind of hits. The targeting rule's only intent is to make the game safer for the players and the players' future. One hit above the neck on someone who cannot defend themselves could and a player's future. The targeting rule in college football should be kept due to player safety and player health. College officials and the rule itself have proven that the targeting rule makes the game safer. Johnson states, "the rule, passed by the Football Rules Committee in February and approved by Playing Rules Oversight Panel in March, addresses the committee's concern …show more content…
Solomon stated,"the NCAA said in a statement 'in small of cases, the committee believed players were incorrectly disqualified from games.' Targeting flags on the field increased by 60 percent in 2015, with 115 calls made (0.14 targeting penalties per game). Replay overturned 37 percent of targeting calls on the field," indicating that the targeting rule is being called more each year and officials are looking more and more for this (Solomon). This indicates that the targeting rule is being called more each year and officials are looking more for this. Some people think that targeting should be called less, but this shows you that officials are looking for targeting more for the players health. Tramel stated, "ninety-eight percent of target fouls occur on four types of plays: hits on receivers, roughing the passer penalties, hits to the ball carrier, either the quarterback or a runner, in one or two positions, upright or going to the ground, and blindside blocks" showing the ways targeting can be called (Tramel). This is showing how targeting occurs and when the fouls most occur. Some people think targeting happens in different ways but for ninety-eight percent of the time, targeting happens in these four ways. These stats prove that players who are hit by a targeting hit can be injured