Late in the second quarter

[hunchback_of_nd]

Ok, not bashing the coaching, because the kids are killing it right now and the coaching staff deserves all the credit in the world for their great play, especially Mike Elko, Wow, what a job that guy had done.

BUT

SC is backed up in their own zone with just under 2 minutes on the clock and ND fails to call any time outs already up 28-0 when its like 3rd down -- and the clock just runs...

You can say, well they were saving their time outs for when they had the ball, but come on man, you have to keep you head in the game. By the time they got the ball back there was less than a minute left. You had a chance to really step on their throat at the end of the half. IDK whatever.

 

[DieHard_Irish]

Ok, not bashing the coaching, because the kids are killing it right now and the coaching staff deserves all the credit in the world for their great play, especially Mike Elko, Wow, what a job that guy had done.

BUT

SC is backed up in their own zone with just under 2 minutes on the clock and ND fails to call any time outs already up 28-0 when its like 3rd down -- and the clock just runs...

You can say, well they were saving their time outs for when they had the ball, but come on man, you have to keep you head in the game. By the time they got the ball back there was less than a minute left. You had a chance to really step on their throat at the end of the half. IDK whatever.

Wow! Just wow!

 

[hunchback_of_nd]

Relax it was meant as constructive criticism. You don't have to blow the rape whistle anytime someone makes an observation.

 

[IRISHJD98]

The clock didn't end our last drive before the half, three consecutive incomplete passes did. You save the timeouts so you can take a shot at running the ball, which was the only way we moved the ball that last drive.

 

[hunchback_of_nd]

The three incomplete passes don't justify the in game management that came before it. It could be that they had to pass it three times because they didn't call the time out beforehand as I mentioned, and there was no time to run. There's no justifying it.

 

[IRISHJD98]

Sure there is. Per Kelly, Wimbush had been completely ineffective running the two minute offense in practice until just this week when he shown some improvement. So its a low probability outcome. And you're about to take a 28-0 lead into the half. The last thing you want is for something stupid to happen that leaves time for USC to score on the way to the locker room, then come out, take the kick and lead a scoring drive to make a 28-14 game.

I was glad to see the coaches had Wimbush try to run a two minute offense on last possession. They could easily have just run the clock out. As it was, we gave the ball back with 20 seconds on the clock. If we had taken your approach, we might have been punting with a 1:10 on the clock and handed USC one more chance for a much needed score.