DeBoer Politely Responds to Curious Fans Inquiring About "Clock Management"

Give em Hell Coach!!

The rare exchange of reasonable question and reasonable answer.

This reads like some kind of Ben Shapiro fanboy posting about him owning a liberal college student. It's a very stupid way to frame the question and answer.

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To act like our coaches cannot be questioned is the height of sunshine-pumping fandom and is irrational

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Totally, but we don't have a dipshit head coach.

We have a head coach who's won 90% of the 120 games he's coached.

Meanwhile you have fans who've never played nor coached a down of football in their lives bitching about clock management after we WON a game.

I understood it as it was happening in-game. Never questioned it.
Like he said, if we were up by 2 scores, then yeah, run clock.

Clearly you can see a lot of the butthurt fans here in the replies. They were just like the caller. Stop questioning the GOAT DeBoer. He's brilliant.

I think you need to spruce up the title

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Thundercock GigaChad Kalen DeBoer DESTROYS soyboy sidewalk fan with facts and logic

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DeBoer is an outstanding coach, and from what I've seen we couldn't have found a better successor to Saban than we did. I'm beyond impressed.

However.

If you're managing a game in a way that benefits your opponent, you're not putting yourself in the best position to win. If you enter the fourth quarter winning a game by 18 and you're on the opponent's side of the field, you bleed the clock. If you're still ahead by 12 with less than 10 minutes left, you bleed the clock. If you're still ahead by five with less than six minutes left, you bleed the clock. Not doing so is giving your opponent entirely too many chances to come back.

You can still run the plays you want to run -- just don't snap the ball with 20 seconds remaining on the play clock.

We had two possessions in the latter half of the fourth quarter that earned at least one first down -- 11 plays total between the two. We burned about five minutes off the clock with those possessions because we were snapping the ball well before the play clock ran down. If we'd milked the clock just on those two possessions, we would've had the ball for more than eight minutes of game time, which means Georgia never would have had the time to take the lead or mount their final drive that ended in an interception in the end zone.

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1) The idea of "owning fans whining about the clock," isn't in DeBoer's answer AT ALL. He was a gentleman who welcomed the critical question. Just like YOU should be.

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Our society is shite. It's all about "owning" / "destroying" / "embarrassing" people rather than two people having a respectful conversation on a topic that that they don't completely see eye to eye on.

Some how the majority of people's emotional growth seems to have stunted around the mental age of 12 year's old.

I'm glad to know he had a reason for not working the clock as opposed to being unaware or uncoached. Doesn't mean I agree with him nor do I have to. We got lucky with the pick at the end and it's still a win. Give credit to Georgia for their adjustments and not folding up shop.

I believe they could have run more clock earlier in the quarter. The reason I think they didn't is the communitcation with Jalen and did not want Kirby/DC to change the defense after 15 seconds. Let's not make Jalen have to worry about changing the play with seconds left on the clock, let's let him ball out.

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Half the time, a team bleeds the clock, then the other team scores and the first team finds themselves wishing they had more time.

There are certainly times when you want to run the clock, but it's not always as simple as it appears, nor does it always work out how you want.

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Which is basically what he's saying here. Unless you can end the possession in victory formation it really doesn't make much of a difference. I can see it both ways. It's certainly an issue where reasonable minds can differ.