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Sources: College football leaders nearing adoption of helmet communications

INDIANAPOLIS – With the NFL combine playing out just blocks away, college athletics leaders are moving closer to adopting some of their bigger brother’s ideas.

In a long-expected move, administrators on Friday are expected to finalize a recommendation for the adoption of a player-to-coach helmet communications system, the use of tablets on the sideline as well as in the halftime locker room and a two-minute warning in the college game.

After two days of debate here this week, the NCAA Rules Committee is scheduled to vote on the changes in a recommendation to the NCAA Division I Council, which often rubber-stamps such decisions.