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[Jonathan Hodges]

What is interesting is that he probably made the right decision
spiking the ball if the refs had handled the clock correctly on the
preceeding play.  On the prior play, the QB was correctly called for
intentional grounding as he threw a shovel pass to nobody (that didn't
even make it to the line of scrimmage) while he was clearly inside the
tackle box.  The penalty for the play is a loss of down and the ball
spotted at the point of the foul.  The clock, for some reason,
remained stopped, even after the ball was spotted.  The clock should
have been restarted when the ball was spotted after the penalty, since
stopping the clock would benefit the penalized team (and since an
intentional ground penalty is the same as if the QB were sacked, in
which case the clock would keep running).

Of course a smart QB would have taken the free clock stopage to call a
play (then again this was the backup Stanford QB that was in after the
starter was injured earlier).  The game wasn't lost on that final
drive, though, it was lost when Walt Harris put in the prevent defense
(which, as noted by the commentators who made almost no coherent
comments besides this one: the prevent defense only prevents a win)
and Notre Dame ate it up.  Stanford did a reasonable job slowing down
the ND offense until that point, when they allowed the WRs to run
around like crazy and eat up yards.

In any case, we'll probably see ND-OSU in the Fiesta Bowl unless some
large upset happens in the conference championship games or UCLA-USC
this weekend (or the Oregon lobby actually works).

Jonathan

On 11/28/05, Hakirsch at aol.com <Hakirsch at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Painfully watching the last few minutes of the Stanford-Evil Empire game.
> > Stanford scored a touchdown with 1:46 to take a lead, then let the opponent
> > drive 80 yards in 51 seconds (!) to take the lead right back. (Sound turned
> > down because Keith Jackson's incessant cheerleading is even more tiresome than
> > his usual blowhard commentary)
> >
> > Could it be - a defense as bad as (or worse than) Greg Colby's ?
> >
> > The only positive - if team Evil does make a BCS bowl (unworthily), here's
> > hoping that they get embarrassed.
> >
> > Chuck Herron Tech '85
> >
> >
>
> And one example is hardly indicative, but the Stanford QB, with presumably
> high SAT's spiked the ball on 3rd down with seconds remaining , allowing them
> only one more play with about 70 + yards to go
>
> Harry
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