Why is it so hard for SWAC coaches to manage the game clock?


CEE DOG

CEE DOG

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Why is it so hard for SWAC coaches to manage the game clock? It seems like they don't pay attention or manage it well at all. It happened to us in that Hampton game, JSU had it happen this weekend.
 



When the headcoach is under pressure, you need a trusted assistance who can keep the head coach calm when the pressure is on. If you don't have this one person on your staff who can get this done; then you will continue to get the same results. This coach on the sideline must be able to be calm and paying attention to what is going at all aspects of the game. His job is not to get excited and get caught up the game, but be able to be calm at all times. Fans can tell you when a clock is being managed correctly or incorrectly (some call the mismanagement of the clock cheating for the home team) Some officials do a poor job of officiating a game because they are watching the game rather than officiating the game. You cannot watch a game, you must coach a game and the same goes for officials they cannot get caught up in the game because they must officiate the game.
 
CATMENDUE2 said:
they never practice for closing/endings of the game.
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No situational coaching, is what you're intimating, correct? :read:

I believe this is true, btw. I know one SWAC team that seemed not to understand that it could possibly have a 1st and 10 inside the opponent's redzone, if not 10 yard line, and would ensue to attempt to call 3 passing plays. :confused: Boise State or TCU doing this? I understand because they have the personnel <b>up front</b> and ball "hawks" that'll snatch things out of the air. PV doing this? Not so much. :smh:
 
Panther88 said:
No situational coaching, is what you're intimating, correct? :read:

I believe this is true, btw. I know one SWAC team that seemed not to understand that it could possibly have a 1st and 10 inside the opponent's redzone, if not 10 yard line, and would ensue to attempt to call 3 passing plays. :confused: Boise State or TCU doing this? I understand because they have the personnel <b>up front</b> and ball "hawks" that'll snatch things out of the air. PV doing this? Not so much. :smh:
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Exactly.
 
this sadly reminds me of the year we played JSU for their homecoming and Totten infamously called a pass play on 3rd instead of just running the ball to get in better field position to kick a game-winning field goal. Everybody who was at the game know what happened next. After the game one of the things he said was he wasn't aware that it was actually 3rd down.......#fail
 
Devil's Gun Trigger Man said:
this sadly reminds me of the year we played JSU for their homecoming and Totten infamously called a pass play on 3rd instead of just running the ball to get in better field position to kick a game-winning field goal. Everybody who was at the game know what happened next. After the game one of the things he said was he wasn't aware that it was actually 3rd down.......#fail
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Don't tell anyone else this story. :smh:

What a glaring indictment on SWAC "coaching." :smh:
 
Quality control coaches needed. Gotta have coaches that pay attention to everything else such as the game clock management, timeouts, etc.
 
My theory is that you have two things at work here:

#1, There is the coach who thinks it should work "just because" they thought of the play.

#2. There are those who think like fans and not like coaches. They are so caught up in the moment that they don't thnk two plays/possessions ahead of real time.
 
Devil's Gun Trigger Man said:
bruh, it's no secret there was over 25,000 people at Memorial that night that saw it for themselves.
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DGTM, don't you tell nobody else that honest story man. Lets keep this backwards bullshit in-house. :tup:

Y'all gonna' have folx out yonda' thinking SWAC coaches don't know what the fvck they doing. :| :| :| :| :| :|

*thinking back on that verbal-type spat I've had w/ several former PV coaches* :smug:
 



Our staff blew both halves in the Gram game. We got the ball near our 10 yard line or so with about 57 seconds left in the half. Score tied 6-6. We punted with about 45 seconds left in the half. Gram scored a TD on a slip screen.

I ain't even talking about the end of the game.
 
Robber said:
Our staff blew both halves in the Gram game. We got the ball near our 10 yard line or so with about 57 seconds left in the half. Score tied 6-6. We punted with about 45 seconds left in the half. Gram scored a TD on a slip screen.

I ain't even talking about the end of the game.
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Robber, not piling on but I was like..."there's no way I would let Grambling have the ball anymore this half...especially with Gram due to receive the ball in the 2nd half". Then to really show your coaches were out to lunch (and I'm not smacking)...why blitz and play man coverage behind it? Grambling had the perfect call on and you guys were in the worst defense imaginable. It was 33 seconds before the half... And to make it worse, yall showed the blitz early.

Okay, now here's one. Granted your db made a great play on the pick (our fade attempt in the endzone) and granted with that coverage that's not a bad call (Normlly). But when Jackson knew that on first down, Grambling's gonna throw that fade (hell, I knew it...in fact your coverage "baited" us into doing it), I would have ran it on first down. I want to take time off the clock anyway and be sure to get AT LEAST the 3 points. I know that's conversative, but I'm on the road, I'm the underdog, and I'm eating up clock and scoring via the run on first down, safe throw on 2nd down, run it again on third down.
 
i personally think this game was lost with special teams too. i mean grambling returned each kickoff at least 50 years or into jsu territory each time. why in the world did jsu keep kicking to them. they should have squib kicked or something other than kicking deep. another play, what in the world was the punt returner thinking trying to get the ball off the bounce and run with grambling defenders in his face, smh. at the end of the game i saw jsu qb asking for the field goal tee and the coaches were telln him to spike the ball but it wasnt. you had first down with 11 seconds, one timeout, and the ball was hiked with 4 second on the clock.
 
Robber said:
Our staff blew both halves in the Gram game. We got the ball near our 10 yard line or so with about 57 seconds left in the half. Score tied 6-6. We punted with about 45 seconds left in the half. Gram scored a TD on a slip screen.

I ain't even talking about the end of the game.
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Precisely!! 3 pass plays inside your own 15 yard line with 3 drops. Less time ticked off the clock during that possession than during our last play of the game.
 
ScreamTeam1 said:
i personally think this game was lost with special teams too. i mean grambling returned each kickoff at least 50 years or into jsu territory each time. why in the world did jsu keep kicking to them. they should have squib kicked or something other than kicking deep. another play, what in the world was the punt returner thinking trying to get the ball off the bounce and run with grambling defenders in his face, smh. at the end of the game i saw jsu qb asking for the field goal tee and the coaches were telln him to spike the ball but it wasnt. you had first down with 11 seconds, one timeout, and the ball was hiked with 4 second on the clock.
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I didn't see any coaches telling Casey to spike the ball.
 
Many of our coaches are not prepared to coach a close game where time management is a key. But this not limited to SWAC coaches...hell Les Miles and Houston Nutt are notorious for this.
 
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