[Husker] Asking for a timeout when you have none... (fwd)

Mark Landin marklandin at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 22:44:45 CST 2005


There are probably circumstances under which calling a time out when you

> don't have any left could be considered 'unsportsmanlike conduct' but I
> don't think that was the case here.


If the penalty occured with less than 2:00 left, it would not only be a
5-yard penalty, but also a 10-second runoff, I believe. This is typically
sufficient deterent to calling timeouts with none left, since if you are
needing resort to that with under 2:00 left, every second is very precious.


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