re: 12 men on the field.. hold on a minute...

So to throw an added wrinkle in the saga, with 12 men on the field, a spike might have been the approprite call.

so arrakis...

team is lined up and ready to snap on ready for play with 1.2 and they snap on the whistle - live play correct?

I'll tell you all what would have "worked" under the current rules in college involving the replay.

Let's say LSU kicked the ball and got a penalty for delay of game.(hypthtcal) This would ahve had them in the same situation, just 5 yds further back...NO good except for the fact it would have given a stoppage in play and given teh booth/Miles to ask the referee to check how much time should have been on the clock.

Since it seems EVERYONE is under the opinion that LSU's reciever hit the ground with at least 2 seconds, probably 3, LSU would have then been able to spike it and still have a second left on the clock.

That booth review of time left was never given a chance at reivew because of the pace of the developements on the field.

What really would ahve been nice is to have a timeout left, but at LSU, that isn't an option since we burn them all avoiding delay of game penalties because of CROWTON's inability to run an offense with personnel in a timely manner.

We have to burn our timeouts to run an offensive scheme that doesn't work anyway! Kinda like the cat chasing his tail, except we are doing it on the freeway at rush hour!

if nutt had 12 men on the field he is just as much of a dufus as miles

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Since it seems EVERYONE is under the opinion that LSU's reciever hit the ground with at least 2 seconds, probably 3, LSU would have then been able to spike it and still have a second left on the clock.

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A couple of things you need to take into consideration here - the clock that they show on TV is not the game clock and the clock does not instantly stop as soon as the player is down - the clock stops when it is killed.

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1.2 seconds on the clock......

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If the offense legally snaps the ball before the game clock expires, the ball is live. Do you even have to ask the question?

1 second left on the clock does not mean literally there is 1 second left. The chain gang had to run from midfield to the 6 yard line. Haven't watched the replay, but it seems like it was well over the 12 secs LES says he needs to get a FG. I have seen plenty of games where the ball is snapped with 1 sec left. This BS excuse that 1 sec is not enough time to run a play doesn't fly. If thats the case then just end the game at 2 or 3 secs. Why have a 1.

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If the offense legally snaps the ball before the game clock expires, the ball is live. Do you even have to ask the question?

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well everyone is saying(including some in the media...) that there was not enough time on the clock..... to run ONE PLAY.. but we both know that is BS.. if and it's a big IF.. they are ready.....

Does it really matter now. He could of had a play ready, he could of called time out. If he really didn't expect there to be another play after the hail mary then why did he have his headset on after the pass?!