re: CMR screwed up his clock management? Huh?

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Whatever makes you feel better about CLM.


wtf does this have to do with Miles?

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Did you even read the OP?

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awesome....doesn't really mean shite though when you frick it all up in the last 15 seconds.

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A tipped pass as nothing to do with clock management. And do you really not understand that the vast majority of teams wouldn't have had good enough clock management to even get in that situation in the first place? The clock would've run out at the 50 yard line for most teams.

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the plays and execution of the plays in the drive were impressive. richt's clock management was not.

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Getting first downs, getting out of bounds, not getting sacked, not throwing passes too short, not calling plays that could be stopped short of the line --- THOSE ARE THE HALLMARKS OF CLOCK MANAGEMENT. It is those mistakes that kill a hurry-up drive, not whether or not someone clocks it or attempts an actual pass on a play.

Don't you people watch football? Don't you see what most teams frick up and end up doing in that situation, and how Georgia was perfect in avoiding all those mistakes?

I don't necessarily blame Richt. A senior quarterback has to ,have the presence of mind to get his players lined up, spike the ball and still have about 12 seconds to run two or three plays to the endzone. It was idiotic and yes did remind me of several clock managements issues we've had at LSU.

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genro

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I honestly think LSU fans are jumping all over Richt because they want to make this seem worse than some of Miles' clock blunders.

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Miles has coached 105 games at LSU.
He has had "clock blunders" or what can be CONSIDERED to be clock blunders against:


- Ole Miss in '09. But this is wildly erroneous.
After LSU caught the final Hail Mary at the Ole Miss 2, an Ole Miss player picked up the ball and ran off like he had 'recoved' a fumble. Miles yelled at the officials that the LSU receiver was down, NOT at Jefferson to "clock it" as is wrongly assumed. (Miles stated this in his weekly radio show and press conference that week).
JEFFERSON was the only one in a position to make a decsion on that final play, because the officials had only to run down to the LOS an start winding his arm for the clock to start, there would have been NO TIME for the FG unit to even get on the field.
Jefferson had three choices:
(1) Take the snap and throw a pass into the EZ
(2) Take the snap and try to run into the EZ
(3) Do nothing and look back at the sideline while the clock runs out.

He chose #3. That fiasco had NOTHING to do with Les Miles.



- Penn State in '09 Capital One bowl.
Miles did let several seconds run off the clock on the last possible FG winning drive, but what most people don't remember is that a Penn State DL laid on top of an LSU ball carrier after tackling him and would not get up.
An LSU player tried to "help" him off of the ball carrier while the clock was ticking, and what happens? The LSU PLAYER gets called for the penalty !!!!!!!!!!


- Tennessee in 2010.
Miles sent the final play in, but Jefferson failed to call it correctly in the huddle and was not looking when the center snapped the ball.
The only thing that saved Jefferson is that Tennessee had 14 players in the end zone.

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LSUREM

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I don't necessarily blame Richt.

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Yes you do.

All other LSU fans ONLY in this thread have bashed Richt on this. You MUST toe the party line.


There was a point in time when I thought LSU had intelligent football fans. Now not so much.

it's pretty pathetic

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Did you even read the OP?

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Yes...but bama fans in general are obsessed with LSU so I just took it with a grain of salt.

i admit that the game was decided long before that play as our d was letting the backs get to the second level untouched.