Clock Management

by **f4shionablecha0s** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:37 pm

As we saw at the end of the game, JJ is clearly capable of it... Why not before the half?

by **ponyte** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:53 pm

Terrible clock management. And in JJ's scheme, that is his fault. I do hope it improves over the course of the season.

by **smupony94** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:23 am

Same as last year. Remember the Navy game?

by **sbsmith** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:26 am

smupony94 wrote:Same as last year. Remember the Navy game?

Or the UCF game, no sense of urgency at all.

by **SMU21TCU10** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:30 am

I felt like we could have gotten into field goal range with a minute to go before the half. Didn't like the way he squandered the time.

by **rooster** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:51 am

brutal.

by **goldenstang** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:07 am

His clock management is horrendous, always will be.

by **mrydel** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:19 am

I seriuosly think he was afraid of having to give A&M the ball back with time on the clock if we did not convert. Kind of a playing scared strategy but maybe he thought if we could get in at half time and regroup, we could still win. This is my benefit of the doubt statement.

by **goldenstang** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:37 am

mrydel wrote:I seriuosly think he was afraid of having to give A&M the ball back with time on the clock if we did not convert. Kind of a playing scared strategy but maybe he thought if we could get in at half time and regroup, we could still win. This is my benefit of the doubt statement.

You could probably sell me on this if I hadn't watched a SMU game the previous three seasons.

by **mrydel** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:40 am

goldenstang wrote:
mrydel wrote:I seriuosly think he was afraid of having to give A&M the ball back with time on the clock if we did not convert. Kind of a playing scared strategy but maybe he thought if we could get in at half time and regroup, we could still win. This is my benefit of the doubt statement.

You could probably sell me on this if I hadn't watched a SMU game the previous three seasons.

Oh, I agree his clock management has never been handled in a manner I would. Of course he knows more than me from a coaching standpoint, but it is possible that this is a short coming aspect in his coaching resume. I was just trying to come up with a reason for doing what he did, or did not do.

by **Charleston Pony** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:43 am

I think he was just looking to see if McDermott could get more points on the board against a short clock...or maybe he wanted to spare his team the misery of letting the home team fans count down those final 10 seconds

by **mrydel** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:47 am

Charleston Pony wrote:I think he was just looking to see if McDermott could get more points on the board against a short clock...or maybe he wanted to spare his team the misery of letting the home team fans count down those final 10 seconds

Looking more at the end of the first half when we had the ball and 3 time outs and did not use them to try and score before halftime.

by **Junior** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:28 am

mrydel wrote:
Charleston Pony wrote:I think he was just looking to see if McDermott could get more points on the board against a short clock...or maybe he wanted to spare his team the misery of letting the home team fans count down those final 10 seconds

Looking more at the end of the first half when we had the ball and 3 time outs and did not use them to try and score before halftime.

Yeah, that wasn't ideal.