re: Call of the year or more poor clock management?

this is why the media calls Leslie, the gunslinger.

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I agree. It was a reckless and moronic call. We were very lucky it worked out.

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The only good thing about the call was that it caught Auburn off guard. Other then that, Miles was completely oblivious of the clock, and it is the same problem he's been having since he's coached here - poor clock management. It just happened to work out this time, but most of the time, those types of plays will not work in that situation.

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Call of the year or more poor clock management?

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Neither one. It was a good call that a lot of coaches make in that situation. You have time to run a play to the end zone or set up a closer FG, then call time out and kick the FG if you need to, so you try it. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't and you have to kick the FG. There's nothing particularly amazing about it, and it certainly isn't a bad decision. The only thing that made it look close was that our team took way longer than it should have to line up and snap the ball, and the clock operator let 2 or 3 seconds run off the clock after the play was over. Even with that, practically everything going wrong that could go wrong (from the clock standpoint), we still had a second left on the clock after the play was over, and could have attempted a FG if we needed to.

There is plenty of times that you can scream bloody hell at Miles for poor clock management.

Auburn 07 was not one. It was the right call, executed well, high quality roll of the dice.

All, end of game, working the clock type of situations are touch and go. You try to make sure you have as many scenarios as possible worked out in your head and preferrably on a end of game sheet (so you don't have to try to remember them all under duress) and then you go on feel. You can't have every scenario played out because you never have the exact same set of variables twice. How much time left, where are you on the field, what is the score, how is your QB performing, is the other team getting consist. pressure on the QB, do we have a favorable matchup we want to exploit, home or away... the list goes on and on.

I can't freakin stand when a team gets down close to scoring like that and then puts all their eggs in the kicker's basket when they had some time to try for the endzone.

They called a great play, they threw it up where only our guy could go get it (I know some of you are going to say the DB could possibly have intercepted it, but that dude had NFL coverage on Byrd and still didn't get his hand on it. )

Now if they had run some stupid play across the middle where the ball has a good chance to be tipped up, you can make more of an argument.

Like I said, if you want to bash the coaches for end of game management there is plenty to pick from, I am just not sure why people pick this game. They actually played it perfectly.

And for all the rantards that want to harp on the time, the reality is that if the timekeeper wasn't jumping up and down celebrating, the clock would have stopped at least with 3 seconds left.

Just wanted to add, that if you asked me, I am not sure if Miles called this endgame so well because he was on the ball and clued in, or if he just got extremely lucky. I don't know. I am not defending Miles and if he is smart or not. Just the way the end of this game was called. It was perfect. But I concede it might have been perfect dumb luck.

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so we score and go up by 5, seems a 2pt conversion would be in order. No, our idiot coach kicks a PAT to go up 6. would have been funny had Auburn returned the kickoff for a TD and won by 1 pt.

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yeah, that was pretty dumb

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Did you see the game? Apparently not. It's that or you have absolutely no idea how football is played.
Now you call your daddy and show him what a big arse you just made of yourself.

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What a glorious moment.

When you think of what was going through my head until he caught that ball, not so much...

Isn't the clock supposed to stop on completion of a pass?

A friend who was a manager on the team that year told me less wasn't motioning to spike, he was telling the refs the ball was down and they should stop the clock.

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Not a stupid call at all. Get over it. The ball was snapped with 8 secs left and caught with 3 secs left. The clock should've been stopped at 3 or a minimum of 2 secs. Still time to kick the field goal




It could have been picked off....

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Every pass thrown in a game could be picked off. Just stop, you don't know better than the coach, you look like a fool trying to argue this.