Nick Saban came out Wednesday and spoke about how he's the Boogeyman, how the college football world has learned a new term and how they're running with it faster than the hurry-up no-huddle offense.Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Empirical Evidence.Sounds all fancy, doesn't it?"I had nothing to do with the (proposed) 10-second rule," Saban said.And no one believed a word he said. Why, you ask?Because they have Glenn Hubbard Jersey empirical evidence, dammit.While I'm not certain half the people who use the "empirical evidence" argument know what empirical evidence is, let's take a moment to talk about something everyone can comprehend (in theory): common sense.Common sense tells you when it's 90 degrees on a fall Saturday, when it's more than 100 degrees on a field, when the humidity is so thick you could suck it with a straw, those big, lumbering 300-plus-pound defensive linemen will, at some point, be sucking wind.Common sense tells you if you're a defensive lineman, and you've been on the field for eight consecutive plays against a hurry-up, no-huddle offense, you're probably at 60 percent (at best) when that ninth or 10th play rolls around.Now, here's the key to the argument that the hurry-up, no-huddle offense can lead to injuries: The offense knows where it's going.So while your friends at the office, or the blabbermouth talk radio host or even self-serving coaches make this argument "the offense has 300-pounders of the line too!" there are other important factors to addre s. Offense dictates each play. Offensive linemen know the blocking scheme; be it man blocking, zone blocking, a pulling center, guard or tackle, or a double team. Offense can move a receiver or a tight end or a running back and use him as a crack back block.Now, I know there's no empirical evidence that suggests pace of play contributes to increased injuries because we haven't interviewed every head trainer, every member of a training staff, every team physician, every staffer at local university hospitals to get that empirical evidence, and then have it analyzed but doesn't common sense Rollie Fingers Jersey tell you that an offensive lineman at 60 percent who knows where he, the play and the blocking a signment are going is probably at a distinct advantage?And wouldn't common sense tell you a defensive lineman at 60 percent is probably at a distinct disadvantage and more than likely at a greater risk of injury because he can't react as quickly to double teams (which he doesn't know are coming and the offense does), or crackback blocks (which he doesn't know are coming and the offense does), or a pulling lineman Santiago Casilla Jersey he can't see while engaging with another lineman or flowing down the line of scrimmage chasing a play?Now I realize that's not empirical evidence and it doesn't allow me to jump up and down a scream like a lunatic that the most succe sful coach in the game is "trying to gain another advantage!" It's just common sense, people. That's all.Look, the rule is ridiculous and was tabled on Wednesday by the NCAA rules committee because it has no place in the game. Not because of some inane empirical evidence argument.You simply can't take away the offense's one, explicit advantage over the defense: It knows when the ball will be snapped.But for everyone whining and complaining that the evil, dastardly Saban is a self-serving baby who lost his past two games against teams that run the hurry-up, no-huddle offense, I ask you this: Are the coaches who want that advantage it most certainly is an advantage not self-serving, too?Are you really, as a coach who has been entrusted by mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles of young men all over this Rickey Henderson Jersey country, going to stand up and say pace of play doesn't contribute to injuries? Common sense says it can, and more than likely does.There's no empirical evidence because there hasn't been an exhaustive study on injuries and pace of play. It's not as simple as number of plays run versus injuries on the field and away we go.Empirical evidence, according to livescience.com, is information acquired by observation or experimentation, and the data is analyzed by scientists who form questions to either support or disprove specific theory. Not by some football ops guy telling you there's no evidence, or by some idiot yelling on the radio.So it comes down to this: Self-serving theory No. 1 (pro pace offense crowd): There's no empirical evidence that suggest more injuries occur from the no-huddle offense. Self-serving theory No. 2 (anti-pace offense crowd): common sense.Over the years, the NCAA has made specific cutbacks in terms of practice time and content of practice to limit a player's exposure to injury. These run from limiting practice hours to ending consecutive two-a-days in fall camp to limiting scrimmages.The entire design of NCAA change has been based on player safety but only during practice. The one rule that was made to affect player safety during games lasted all of one year.The NCAA committee, while tabling the 10-second rule, likely will pa s the rule that softens last year's controversial targeting rule by eliminating the 15-yard penalty if replay shows the call was incorrect. This, of course, was lost under the avalanche of self-serving memes from both sides of the tempo argument.Empirical evidence or common sense no one wins at this point.It's a dumb rule that shouldn't have been pa sed and shouldn't even have been argued.But is it Khris Davis Jersey any dumber than those claiming a lack of empirical evidence when common sense is turning the corner like a 300-pound pulling guard?