VT/ECU

[Cohendawg]

I know the game isn't over yet, but Lou's prediction for ECU over VT (only because his wife wouldn't allow him to come home if he picked VT) doesn't look so dumb.</p>

 

[jackstefano]

reverse beamer ball.

 

[Cohendawg]

I couldn't care less about either of these teams, only watching it because I've got Jackson Comcast. Watching ranked teams lose is fun though.

 

[Cohendawg]

nm

 

[OEMDawg]

VT's offense and quarterback suck donkey dick.

 

[patdog]

It generally took officials about 15 seconds to get the ball spotted to start the play clock under the old rules (and it wouldn't have been any quicker with ECU players taking their time getting up if the old rules were still in effect). Changing from a 25-second clock to a 40-second clock has no effect on the game. The rule that will shorten the game somewhat is the starting the clock when the ball is spotted on out of bounds plays. But since that won't happen in the last 2 minutes of a half, we'll barely notice it.

BTW, I was glad to see ECU come back to win after almost losing the game to the dumbest rule in football, the 2-point "conversion" after giving up a touchdown.

 

[Coach34]

of why your *** better have an offense. VTech has a good defense and a ****** offense. Offense lost this game for them. You cant always count on your D to win it for you.

 

[OEMDawg]

It takes the game out of the refs hands. How many times was there a controversy last year with the ref standing over the ball waiting to place it and seeing the game clock tick down. This 40 second rule makes it so much cleaner. The play is over wind the 40 second clock, done deal. If these teams can't get a play called in 40 seconds then they've got problems.

Something that came up in the Rice-SMU game last night was what happens on long incompletions. SMU missed on a long pass and instead of subbing their receiver, they ran him all the way back to the huddle and had to call a timeout because they blew the entire 40 seconds. </p>

 

[Cohendawg]

nfm

 

[muddawgs33]

The defense gave up 2 long drives for TD's. But yeah I agree VT's offense looked ******, but I don't think you can put the whole loss on them. It was a team effort all the way down to special teams.