There is 1:46 on the clock when Tulane calls it's second time out of the second half. Coming up is 3rd down and 7 for the Owls at the TU 42 yard line. Tulane only has one time out remaining so it is clearly evident the Owls can force them to burn their last time out on the next play. All we have to do is call a run play and stay in bounds. A run play should burn at least 10 seconds if not more if we run off tackle or sweep. Then punt on 4th down and Tulane will have no time-outs remaining.
So what do we do? Throw an incomplete pass which stops the clock!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!
And then what do we do????? Punt the ball out of bounds?????
The result of this clock mismanagement is Tulane gets the ball back at their 29 with 1:34 on the clock, PLUS they still have one time out remaining. When Quincy Roche sacked the Tulane QB with 1:07 left on the clock Tulane calls their final time out. It is 4th & 16 at the Tulane 38 and this sequence should have eaten the entire available clock.
Very, very, very poor game time decisions. Anyone who has ever coached pee-wee or midget football would have known how to kill the time at the end of the game by using a run to force Tulane to use its' last time out before it got the ball back. We were lucky to win this one.
So what do we do? Throw an incomplete pass which stops the clock!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!
And then what do we do????? Punt the ball out of bounds?????
The result of this clock mismanagement is Tulane gets the ball back at their 29 with 1:34 on the clock, PLUS they still have one time out remaining. When Quincy Roche sacked the Tulane QB with 1:07 left on the clock Tulane calls their final time out. It is 4th & 16 at the Tulane 38 and this sequence should have eaten the entire available clock.
Very, very, very poor game time decisions. Anyone who has ever coached pee-wee or midget football would have known how to kill the time at the end of the game by using a run to force Tulane to use its' last time out before it got the ball back. We were lucky to win this one.
