re: Your teams best and worst game over the last 5 years

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PharmacistReb
Your teams best and worst game over the last 5 years


Worst: 2010 Jacksonville State
Best: 2009 LSU - Les Miles' ball spike with 1 second

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That is incorrect. It was Jefferson's ball spike.

Miles stated ad nauseum after that game that he was signalling to the ref that 'the ball was down' (an OM player picked up the ball after the long Hail Mary reception like he had recovered a fumble, and Les was teling the ref the ball was down.)
As this was taking place, the side judge was running down to the five yard line to make the 'winding' motion with his arm to start the clock (neither team had a TO left).
Miles and the other coaches were screaming for Jefferson to snap the ball (because JJ kept looking at the sideline for some ungodly reason).

JJ's only options were to snap the ball and do SOMETHING with it....ANYTHING - Like, maybe...throw a pass into the end zone? try to run it in to the end zone?
But he did NEITHER. He just stood there with the ref getting ready to wind his arm to start the clock, (which he finally did). And the clock ran out with JJ just standing there after spiking it.

There was nothing Miles could have done from the sideline. The Hail Mary was caught at about the OM 4 yard line. Miles, even had he had his
FG team ready in case the Hail Mary was short, could not have gotten them on the field in the time it took for the side judge to run down and start the clock.

It was all on JJ.