re: Ivan Maisel hits the nail on the head.

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Gus

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took longer than I thought for him to get brought up.

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Chess has pieces that can move in a variety of ways, call these plays. Checkers have pieces that are limited in the movement of them. Therefore this is not speed chess, running 4-5 plays as fast as possible is checkers not chess.

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it was stupid when you made the analogy the first time, trying to justify it isn't improving it.

Maisel has Alabama's metaphorical cock in the back of his throat at all times. He grew up a Bama fan so I don't judge him for it, just bullshite he is a major CFB writer for ESPN

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Chess has pieces that can move in a variety of ways, call these plays.

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So, in your opinion, spread offenses don't have pieces that can move in a variety of ways?

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Therefore this is not speed chess, running 4-5 plays as fast as possible is checkers not chess

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So, you are arguing that we need to go back to the old school ways then, but not the old school way of run it until they stop it?

In all seriousness, in what way is Arky's offense more complex than AU's? At the end of the day, both run basically the same run plays (same within their own offense, not that AU and Arky run the same plays), the only thing that varies is the formation.

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so which is it?... are we doing this for player safety, or b/c you like it better?

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Safety. I never want to see injuries on the the field.

Eh there's nothing wrong with maisel saying what he'd prefer to see. He's a guy with an opinion of what he likes about football. I don't agree with his opinion but at least he's not showing his arse by crying 'injuries' when the real issue he just wants it done differently.

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iglass

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it was the standing around that led to that injury...if they'd hurried up to the line he'd have been fine.

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I tried to hit you in the head with a sarcasm 2x4 and you broke it.

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Yikes...nothing about that was serious. emoticon

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Maisel's third point:


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3. The play-clock rule amended Nick Saban had a point. Before college football adopted the 40-second play clock in 2008, the umpire stood over the ball for a short period of time before he "wound up" the 25-second play clock. Up-tempo offenses succeed in part by preventing the defense from substituting. This is what's best for the game? The intent of the 40-second clock, to speed up the time of the game, sped up the game itself. I'd rather watch an offense and defense match strategy than watch which team has the most organized sideline. Amend the rule to allow the umpire to stand over the ball for 10 seconds until both teams have had a chance to sub. Let an up-tempo team win because it wears out the defense once the ball is snapped, not before it's snapped.

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I have heard this arguement before about the 25 Sec Clock and why the Umpire stood over the ball. It was not to allow substitution, it was for the purpose of reseting the clock after first downs and balls out of bounds. If you remember the rule before the 40 sec clock, the clock would stop on first downs, balls out of bounds and incomplete passes. They only one who could reset the game clock was the umpire, who would wait until the rest of the refs were in place.

It's funny, I have distinct memories from every SEC matchup we had last year, except Arkansas.