re: Why isn't Kelly getting more criticism for end of game clock management?

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Some folks just gotta find reasons to complain. How BK managed the last 2 minutes worked and THAT is what counts.

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Lol. I’m not looking a reason to complain. Just pointing out that it was poor clock management.

Sure it worked. Great. But it’s the head coaches thought process in that situation that is so perplexing.

He gave Arkansas a chance, albeit a very small chance to win when he didn’t have to.

If there had been a runback, there would have been zero time left.

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If there had been a runback, there would have been zero time left.

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True and if it had been run back for a TD they win. Or if there was a defensive penalty, they get an extra play.

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Should've run a running play or at least kneeled it to burn clock and then called a timeout with 3 seconds left.

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the only pass in this end of game was on 3 and 4 from the 33.

Do you suggest that was wrong?

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Did I hear right that Alabama kicked a fg on third down thinking it wa s4th

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Yes. But the refs fricked that up. The refs forgot to change the down marker when Bama got the first so on third down, the marker and the red said it was 4th.

But…. Saban should have caught it.

Because the narrative about him when he was hired is that “the adults are back in charge” and after years of buffoons, we hired a “real” coach.

“We’re going to beat the heck out of Florida state”

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We threw on 2nd to last play bc there were 1- seconds on the clock

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correct. To run seconds off. Three exact.

What is the issue, I thought we wanted less time in it fir Arky.

Should we have run it? Kicked in 3 w no timeouts left.

Or throw it away and take a few seconds off

What was you choice?

We should have managed the clock better and had a TO to use after 3rd down. In a way I’m shocked so many on here are not understanding how bad the clock management was. We called a TO before first down with 1:44 on the clock and had 2 left. If we don’t call a TO after 1st and 2nd down we have one to use with 3 seconds left. It isn’t rocket science.-

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We called a TO before first down with 1:44 on the clock

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maybe we wanted to let folks know to not run in the end zone if Arky opened the gate? Maybe change a check.

Do you know what we were thinking?

You serious my man?

The issue is using our final time out for no fricking reason. The stupid part was calling a time out. This is really simple like scary simple.

First and goal arky has no time outs and there is enough play clock time that if done correctly arky never gets that ball back.

The time out after the first down play was fine, except what we did after. We should have ran to the middle or kneeled if.

Then we don’t call a time out after the 2nd down and you kneel on third and down and call time out with 2 seconds left and kick it.

This shouldn’t be hard at all LSU had the ability to run every second down and we didn’t because of piss poor management.