Once clearer heads prevail (from the overkill on the other threads), this will be the most important factor. Whether the FG team was ready to go or not, the play would not have "gotten off", as the clock would start when the ball was set, not on the snap. The coaching error was made when LSU had the ball at the Ole Miss 32 with some 40 seconds on the clock and a timeout. Two negative plays later and, all of a sudden, you're out of field goal range. Time out should have been called by Les Miles immediately, but, based on his post game comments, he thought his staff had called a time out... not a great time to be delegating, Les... Again, to P&G's point, one second is not enough time between the ref setting the ball for play and the qb getting the play off. You can clearly see the refs signalling the play dead at the snap. How coaches can let 20 seconds run off the clock is the part that's beyond my ken, whether one coach thought another coach called for it or not.
I think two words sum up LM coaching effort since the 07 championship: cruise control. Talk amongst yourselves...:wave:
We all know what should have been done when we had the ball at the 32. The management with :01 left with our coach screaming down the sideline to spike the ball, and then a press conference where he denies doing so by throwing everyone under the bus is why people are as irate as they are (not to mention the rest of the game that was heinously coached). It's embarrassing.
Where did Tolliver catch the ball, because if it was inside the 10 the chains would not reset being its a goal to go situation, but the clock would restat once the ball is set, if the team is set up which they were it is possible to get a play off. None of it matters though because we should have been running the ball instead of JJ taking sacks, thats my real issue with this whole fiasco.
Home cooking by the clock team is the reason we had 1 second. We should have had at least 2 and possibly 3 seconds, enough time to spike it and bring in the kick team.
