TO before the field goal

**Lexvol** · 10-02-2007, 07:21 AM

To my knowledge, this hasn't been discussed on this board all that much. What do you guys think about the "well timed" TO before Auburn's game winning field goal?

On one hand I think it is brilliant, but there is definitely a "weasel like" component to the strategy. No one seems all that upset, so it seems as though it may be accepted as part of the gamesmanship of the contest now. What say you?

cd12 · 10-02-2007, 07:47 AM

The sports talk crowd around these parts was up in arms about it. I can see the weasel aspect of it but it is within the rules and had it worked it would have added to urban's growing "legend". The man was just trying to win a ballgame................

**Lexvol** · 10-02-2007, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by crimedawg12

The sports talk crowd around these parts was up in arms about it. I can see the weasel aspect of it but it is within the rules and had it worked it would have added to urban's growing "legend". The man was just trying to win a ballgame................

Agreed. It would be pleasant to do to an opponent, but frustrating to have it done to you. Last I checked the Golden Rule doesn't apply to SEC football.

cd12 · 10-02-2007, 07:53 AM

Fred White had an interesting comment.....he said all kickers do is kick....they should make em no matter how many timeouts are called.

LAVolfan · 10-02-2007, 08:16 AM

I've heard several kickers say they actually like for the other team to call a timeout. It gives them more time to prepare for the kick. One good example is the Patriots game several years back where the other team called a timout and it gave Vinitieri (sp?) time to clear the snow off his kicking area so he wouldn't have any problem planting his foot before the kick.

**Lexvol** · 10-02-2007, 08:19 AM

It is the timing of the TO in question. I think that Fred White had the right answer. Poetic justice would have occured if the AU kicker had missed the first, and made the second.

TennTradition · 10-02-2007, 09:07 AM

I don't mind the time out. But, I do have a bit of a problem with being able to pull a ref to your ear, hold him there, and then call your time out. If you are going to wait until the last second, then you have to risk not being seen when you try to call your timeout.

JOEY'S ALL VOL !!! · 10-02-2007, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by TennTradition

I don't mind the time out. But, I do have a bit of a problem with being able to pull a ref to your ear, hold him there, and then call your time out. If you are going to wait until the last second, then you have to risk not being seen when you try to call your timeout.

Agreed

timmy · 10-02-2007, 10:34 AM

Meyer was just doing what a few NFL coaches have done the past couple of weeks.

**volinbham** · 10-02-2007, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by TennTradition

I don't mind the time out. But, I do have a bit of a problem with being able to pull a ref to your ear, hold him there, and then call your time out. If you are going to wait until the last second, then you have to risk not being seen when you try to call your timeout.

This is where I'm at - it's out of the natural flow of the game. It was a micro-second before the ball was snapped.

Seems to much like a video game where you can hit pause.

TXVOL07 · 10-02-2007, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by TennTradition

I don't mind the time out. But, I do have a bit of a problem with being able to pull a ref to your ear, hold him there, and then call your time out. If you are going to wait until the last second, then you have to risk not being seen when you try to call your timeout.

swamp benefits.

Vercingetorix · 10-02-2007, 11:24 AM

I don't like the rule that allows coaches to call timeouts to begin with. The game is played by 22 men between the lines; the coach is not a participant. Timeouts should have to be called by one of the participants.

**USAF_Vol** · 10-02-2007, 11:33 AM

According to Charley....that is why they pay him 4 million dollars

TXVOL07 · 10-02-2007, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Vercingetorix

I don't like the rule that allows coaches to call timeouts to begin with. The game is played by 22 men between the lines; the coach is not a participant. Timeouts should have to be called by one of the participants.

without coaches, who would we blame the losses on? your crazy.

droski · 10-02-2007, 02:50 PM

you shouldn't be able to call back to back TOs.