[quote=“cluaindiuic, post: 883667, member: 258”]Oh no, the possibility of a goal line stand on a team that was churning out rushing yards.
Worked out well for them the way they did it. He takes a knee and they immediately take away one timeout. At worst assuming a common sense approach to ball possession and FG kicking they give the ball back tied with less than 30 seconds left and max 1 timeout. At best they do the same 4 points up. Appalling me bollox.[/quote]
They wouldn’t have taken a timeout away after the knee because he had gained a first down and the clock was stoppped. FSU (and Jernigan in particular) had gotten on top of Auburn’s run offense in the second half, not to mention the fact that there would have been no risk of Marshall passing to open guys off PA (the one thing keeping FSU honest) meaning the goal to go situation was by no means a given. Obviously they would have liked to have scored with less time left, but taking a knee would have been too risky in the circumstances.
Yes, they would. The clock restarts after the chains have moved. They can sit on their hands and milk the play clock and game clock at that point.
Its still too raw to discuss, but I’m still incredibly proud of my War Eagles.
War eagle is a battle cry mate, they’re the tigers.
Today is National Signing Day. The day when high school students sign their letters of intent and declare what college they will play for. Always a momentous day with plenty of shocks and no shortage of skulduggery.
The big winners were Alabama, who bagged six 5 star recruits in their #1 overall class. The big news for the Tide today was stealing the #1 OLB prospect in the country Rashaan Evans from the clutches of Auburn. Evans is actually a native of Auburn and this will hurt the Tigers a lot. Auburn managed to bag two 5 star recruits in their #6 overall class, but they will be smarting from losing hometown Evans to their sworn enemies.
LSU had the #2 overall class and bagged the nations #1 prospect in RB Leonard Fournette, who was among four 5 star recruits who committed to the Tigers. Ohio State had the #3 class and it was notable how well coach Urban Meyer recruited in Georgia, Texas and Florida.
Notre Dame failed to attract a single 5 star recruit and the came in #10 overall. Seven of the top 10 recruiting classes were from the SEC with Florida State at #4 joining OSU and ND in the top 10.