[Husker] Time Management

[Mark Landin]

On 10/21/06, Jeff Spilinek <gtownhusker at cox.net> wrote:
> Is it just me, or did Callahan really botch the end of the game?  2:14 to
> go, 3 time outs. Texas has the ball..  Why aren't we preserving the clock?
> I understand the whole challenge:  just a longer icing of the kicker, but
> c'mon!  We should have called timeouts long before that point.
>

Nobody has directly answered your question, so I'll give my 2 cents:

I thought Callahan should have been calling his timeouts while Texas
had the ball, too ... at least one of those three timouts would have
saved us 20-30 seconds, which almost certainly would have given us
about 35 seconds to get in FG range, not 7 seconds. I haven't seen
anyone explain why that might not have been a good strategy, just that
the kids played hard. Yes, they did. The question was: was the last
two minutes of clock management a coaching error? I think so, unless
someone can tell me why it wasn't.