[Husker] Delay of Game

[Mike Jaixen]

They are also making it a priority to mark the ball
ready for play and starting the 25 second clock as
soon as possible after every single play.  In past
years, I've seen the Huskers breaking the huddle with
23 seconds left on the play clock, allowing Callahan
to run his pre-snap shifts.  Last Saturday, Sam Keller
was still looking to the sideline for the play call
and the clock was already under 20 seconds.

I believe this is the tradeoff from the rejected
"start the clock at the kick" rule that they tried
last year.  This new clock rule is actually creating
more plays than before...

--- George Rapp <george.rapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/3/07, Mark J Norris <marknorris at juno.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Has there been a new rule change for 2007 in CFB?
> >
> > Callahan said that the clock started fast in our
> game and he was going to
> > question the conference about this, and I have
> watched this first week of
> > football dozens of Delay of Game penalties - or is
> it just teams getting
> > used to playing speed?
> >
> 
> Mark, I heard (or imagined) that the play clock is
> set at 15 seconds coming
> out of a TV timeout.  Not sure what the rule is on a
> regular (non-TV)
> timeout or an end-of-quarter break, though.
> 
> Best description I could find was at
>
http://www.redraiders.com/stories/021607/foo_021607037.shtml.
>  Sorry for all
> the gratuitous Mike Leach references in that
> article.  8^)


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


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