Clock Management

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BevoGary

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The one weakness over the last 4 years that I haven't seen addressed in these posts is the pitiful clock management. Up until this week, I would have to say the UCLA game in Dallas was the worst clock management I've seen in my 50 years of following UT football, but the Tech game was a close second. We have the lead, the ball and Tech has one timeout with 8-1/2 minutes left in the game and we're snapping the ball with 23, 21, 31, and 10, seconds on the play clock. We get the ball back with 5:47 and snap it with 19, 13, 7, 6, 4, and 4. That's a total of 2 minutes and 18 seconds of time we handed to Tech. The interception occurred at the 2:14 mark left in the game. This isn't all on Herman either, we have about a dozen coaches that should be able to remind Tom and Sam to milk the clock. What is pitiful is when I have a 10 year old kid in the stands around me asking his dad why they are snapping the ball so quickly.

Strong's old excuse was they wanted to use the hurry up to prevent defensive substitutions. Don't know Herman's excuse, but you can be in the hurry up, and still not snap it for 39 seconds. If they run someone on, you snap it and get a too many men on the field penalty. Terrible excuse.
 
BevoGary said:
The one weakness over the last 4 years that I haven't seen addressed in these posts is the pitiful clock management. Up until this week, I would have to say the UCLA game in Dallas was the worst clock management I've seen in my 50 years of following UT football, but the Tech game was a close second. We have the lead, the ball and Tech has one timeout with 8-1/2 minutes left in the game and we're snapping the ball with 23, 21, 31, and 10, seconds on the play clock. We get the ball back with 5:47 and snap it with 19, 13, 7, 6, 4, and 4. That's a total of 2 minutes and 18 seconds of time we handed to Tech. The interception occurred at the 2:14 mark left in the game. This isn't all on Herman either, we have about a dozen coaches that should be able to remind Tom and Sam to milk the clock. What is pitiful is when I have a 10 year old kid in the stands around me asking his dad why they are snapping the ball so quickly.

Strong's old excuse was they wanted to use the hurry up to prevent defensive substitutions. Don't know Herman's excuse, but you can be in the hurry up, and still not snap it for 39 seconds. If they run someone on, you snap it and get a too many men on the field penalty. Terrible excuse.
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That was definitely on tom. Horrible job. Agreed.
 
BG, many posters have mentioned Herman's questionable clock management, and not just from Friday night. I doubt you'll get many on this board to disagree with your assessment. I certainly don't.
 
Mr. Mensa/Binder left a lot of time on the clock. I was yelling at Tom to slow it down and milk the clock. Granted, I was yelling from Fort Worth so he may not have heard me. My bad.
 
He probably thought our dynamic offense was going to light up the scoreboard and break Tech's will to compete, that could have happened
 
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