[NU Sports] Whew!

[Jonathan Hodges]

Indeed, it was a Big Ten officiating crew, but, I believe the home team
provides the official timekeeper, so all of the whining from Duke about the
clock (especially late in the game) should have been directed at their own
guy.  Remember that the clock rules did change, though, and for out of
bounds plays the clock is supposed to stop until the ball is set, and then
start again (except inside the last 2 mins of each half).  Anyways it did
look like there were some issues with the clock and with the new clock rules
that timekeeper has a lot to worry about very quickly.

Jonathan

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:11 PM, <neonrye at aol.com> wrote:

> Yes, Chuck, it was a Big Ten officiating crew, and the "homer" announcers
> (from the Duke radio broadcast) on the webcast were crying about them at
> times, while at other times they said the officials did a good job.? These
> guys didn't really know what game they were watching.? They also made
> mention once of a small NU contingent.? Glad to hear the Purple and White
> were well-represented.
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CHerron604 at aol.com
> To: sjtruog at yahoo.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:00 am
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Whew!
>
>
>
> Not sure if this was apparent on the radio or webcast, but something looked
> odd in the last possession of the first half.
>
> - on the first play, it looked like Sutton got out of bounds.  Yet the
> scoreboard clock appeared to keep running.
>
> - on the next play, Sutton got the first down, and still the clock kept
> running.
>
> - It looked like the first clock stoppage was when we called a time  out.
>
> - Also, did anyone think we should've tried a really quick pass with 6
> seconds to go in the half ?  Was the CJ slide play simply to get between
>  the
> hashmarks ?  Or did we have time for one quick pass to the corner  ?
>
> I also didn't hear at the game - was it a Big Ten crew ?  Duke has  mostly
> brought (incompetent) ACC crews to their games in Evanston.  Did  Eanet say
> which kind of crew we had ?
>
> It was pretty dry out there - the sun was out and it was hot much of the
> day.  It must've been 80 degrees and 80% humidity during the game - and not
> even
> a hint of a breeze.
>
> Great NU contingent at Wallace Wade, by the way - maybe 20% ?  We  occupied
> almost one quarter of the stadium, though we were kind of spread out,  and
> contributed a lot of noise.
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
>
>
> In a message dated 9/6/2008 10:33:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> sjtruog at yahoo.com writes:
>
> Didn't  get to see the game but I saw the webcast highlights on the BTN -
> not
> pretty  in many ways, but kind of fitting given how we were down there and
> couldn't  score at the end last year.
>
> I think Duke is a better team than last  year ... but we still should have
> won by more. Still, get the win and get  home. We'll take it.:)
>
> Around the league, Minnesota's win was  impressive. Not so much the offense
> (we knew they'd be decent) but the  defense. Hard to get much of a read on
> teams like Purdue and Indiana with the  competition, but it looks like the
> middle
> of the pack in the Big Ten is going  to be quite competitive this year.
>
> Next week things step up for the  league with the two big games in
> California
> for the Bucks and Bucky, Big
>  Blue's Notre Dame game and the intriguing
> Oregon @ Purdue matchup.
>
> As  for us, just get the win. The Ohio game the following week will be
> interesting, but we can't look ahead of the Salukis.
>
> GO  CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
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> GO CATS!!!
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