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Two weeks ago the team traveled to Dallas--central time zone--on Friday for a Noon central/9 am Pacific kickoff.
This week the team traveled to Nashville--also central time zone--on Thursday for a 7 pm central/5 pm Pacific kickoff.
So was the extra day at the game site a lesson learned from the Dallas debacle? Some other reason?
If you have noticed some weird things going on with the clock in college football games, you might not be aware of new rules that went into place this season.
Source: https://deadspin.com/explaining-the-new-...es-5041480
Quote:Last year the average college game lasted 3 hours and 21 minutes. Many televised games went well over four hours. Compare that with the NFL timing system where virtually every televised game ends between 2:55 and 3:05. So the college football overlords have devised a new system modeled on the NFL system. What they haven't done, unfortunately, is replace the biggest issue: a 20 minute halftime for colleges vs. a 12 minute halftime for the NFL. Nevertheless these new clock rules replace the disastrous changes from the 2006 season which were scrapped after only a year. If you recall, those idiotic moves included starting the clock on kickoffs and beginning the play clock on a change of possession. Confused? Here's a short tutorial. There are two primary changes. First, the ready to play signal and 25 second play clock have been eliminated in favor of a running 40 second clock which will begin as soon as each play is whistled dead. Second, when players go out-of-bounds the clock will start on the referees signal as opposed to starting on the snap of the ball. Except for in the final two minutes of each half when the clock will stop until the snap of the next ball. Both of these rules are modeled on the NFL timing rules. So, what's the practical impact? The 40 second clock will add four or five plays to each game. As for the second timing change, Oregon coach Mike Belloti tells Rivals that "he thinks the new rule on out-of-bounds plays will result in the loss of eight to 10 plays per game, meaning the two clock rules are expected to cause the loss of a net four or five plays." Consider yourselves educated. For all the preseason talk, I haven't seen this discussed anywhere. With all the big early season games, this might help to save your flat screen from disaster when the clock is running after an out-of-bounds play with 2:15 remaining and your team trailing by four.
Quote:Stanford welcomed the largest incoming undergraduate class in its history – 2,131 first-year and 66 transfer students
https://news.stanford.edu/today/2021/09/...f-52343633
classes previously have usually been 1,700-1,800.
This year's incoming class was increased due to a significant number of deferrals from the pervious year
Quote:spring [2020], 376 first-year students admitted to Stanford opted to take a gap year
https://stanforddaily.com/2021/01/26/sta...K2R0z7Y5K8
Mark Perkins from the Bleav in Vanderbilt Football podcast answered my questions for the preview, and his responses are some of the best I've ever received. Really thorough and insightful. Take a look if you're interested.
https://www.gomightycard.com/2021/09/blo...dores.html
Also, here's my recap of the USC game.
https://www.gomightycard.com/2021/09/sta...sc-28.html
The answer is I hope so. How else to explain their results, including losing ten of the last sixteen games to us (as Troy Clardy points out in his last podcast)? With all of the history, talent and resources that their team has, it is amazing that they have underachieved for so long. There may be other forces at work, mind you (hubris and the circus atmosphere that goes along with USC football generally comes to mind). Any thoughts on why they keep getting their coaching hires wrong, and whether they will get it right this time?
New show is up! Glad to catch up with this week's special guest, Stanford DBs coach Duane Akina, who tells how the short-handed secondary stole the show -- and the game -- against USC, what's gone into Kyu Blu Kelly's rise, how Jimmy Wyrick and some of the other young DBs are coming along, and what to watch against Vanderbilt. Plus...
+ it's the Pac-12 vs. the SEC...would a Stanford win over Vanderbilt "just mean more"?
+ why Stanford doesn't mind playing in the South
+ one last thing I have to get off my chest about last Saturday's result
Download, listen, rate & review, and react. Thank you as always!
Troy C
The TreeCast with Troy Clardy: Road Dogs Ride Again (September 16, 2021)
Good read
Quote:It’s time for a special prosecutor to probe this reeking, bottom-drawered, law enforcement coverup.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/ol...N_uparIi6Q