Clock Management? Unreal

[WindyCityHawkI]

Is there any staff in the history of college football more inept with clock management than ours? Every game, every season. Why would we not call timeout with 1:15 left in the half about to get the ball back with the wind at our back? But then we call timeout with 11 seconds left? What changed? It is seriously a joke. Call timeout with 1:15, get the ball back with at least a minute left, wind at the back, against an awful team. This crap should be second nature if you are trying to win games instead of just not lose them.

 

[JCinthePowerI]

What's even worse is the timeout with 11 seconds left came after a first down with 14 second left on the clock. If you're going to use the time out then use it with the clock stopped with 14 seconds left. It's absolutely ridiculous.

 

[uihawk82]

Is there any staff in the history of college football more inept with clock management than ours? Every game, every season. Why would we not call timeout with 1:15 left in the half about to get the ball back with the wind at our back? But then we call timeout with 11 seconds left? What changed? It is seriously a joke. Call timeout with 1:15, get the ball back with at least a minute left, wind at the back, against an awful team. This crap should be second nature if you are trying to win games instead of just not lose them.

If you are talking about when purdue had 4th and 7 at midfield then you are wrong or at least you would be taking a chance calling a timeout there if you are iowa.

I am really surprised that a 1-7 purdue team didnt go for it on 4-7 on that down. I think KF made the best decision to let the clock run. If you take the timeout and purdue goes for it and gets it then you just saved them about 40 seconds and a timeout.

 

[uihawk82]

I agree with the OP that KF is not great at clock mgmt but that is not the time to take a timeout.

If the ball was on Purdue's 30 then ok take the timeout

 

[ssckelley]

No way would Purdue have gone for it. The score was 14-7 and their offense is horrible. Purdue would not have taken a chance of giving Iowa the ball at midfield.

 

[HawkinGoferLand]

No way would Purdue have gone for it. The score was 14-7 and their offense is horrible. Purdue would not have taken a chance of giving Iowa the ball at midfield.

Why? Because PU might lose and fall out of the B1G race or bowl contention? Lol. I'm surprised Pu didn't try more trickeration. When you're 1-7 conventional reasoning and risk taking go out the window

 

[Bigtenchamp]

Why? Because PU might lose and fall out of the B1G race or bowl contention? Lol. I'm surprised Pu didn't try more trickeration. When you're 1-7 conventional reasoning and risk taking go out the window

like I said in the other thread... I hope they go for it.. they were into the wind and were likely to give us the ball in their territory.

 

[Hawknick]

I would have done it the way you mentioned also, but I know what the KF was trying to do. I expected them to take a knee, but they did the second most conservative thing. Run it to get it up the field enough to take a shot to get into FG range, and use enough time before taking the shot so that if it was intercepted that Purdont would have no time to anything with it. It is better than just taking a knee, but I would have preferred to have 1:15, throw some safe passes, get out of bounds and so on.

 

[uihawk82]

Why? Because PU might lose and fall out of the B1G race or bowl contention? Lol. I'm surprised Pu didn't try more trickeration. When you're 1-7 conventional reasoning and risk taking go out the window

I was really surprised also that purdue didnt try a few tricky plays etc. Zero and 5 in the big 10 and purdue had nothing to lose,