On Vandy spending $300 million:
I don't care much how Vandy spends its money. But, remember also that announced dollar totals are works of art. Stanford's $90 million stadium build was fake to the low side, partly because of in-kind contributions from Arrillaga and partly (I suspect) because Stanford didn't want the total to look too large. Vandy apparently wants the total to look large ("see - we do care about football!").
On clock management:
I saw only a little to complain about on this front, at least versus most teams if not versus perfection.
I just rewatched the end of the game. In the last 10 minutes, there appeared to be a single snap with more than 10 seconds on the clock - the punt at 7:37 was with about 12 seconds on the play clock. Most plays in that span were under 5 seconds. There was a significant time wastage a little earlier, but in the fourth quarter, on the play after the Humphries PI call. It took the refs a long time to signal the play/game clock to start, the play clock appeared to have the wrong time (40 secs vs 25), the team was ready to go before the refs signalled to start the clock, the snap was a few seconds after time was whistled in. The offense could have stood around for 20+ seconds before snapping the ball. At that point there was either no thinking about the clock at all or some kind of assumption of playing under the older rules where the game clock wouldn't start until the snap.
The DOG on the FG has been fully discussed. It appeared to be a three-way issue of a very quick clock restart after the OB play, brief indecision on going for a first down or not, and a bit of a delay getting the ball snapped. Not good, but ultimately meaningless.
On Karty:
He may have the strongest leg I have seen for a Stanford place kicker. However, at the moment he is spraying the ball a little bit. A couple of his PATs just made it. I expect that to straighten out. It does look like he could make a FG at well over 60 yards.
Slight correction to BC's recipe for a Vandy bowl.
They're looking for 1 FCS team and 3 Group of Five games and 2-6 in the SEC - not 3 Power 5 out of conference games. Just a slip of the fingers.
I don't care much how Vandy spends its money. But, remember also that announced dollar totals are works of art. Stanford's $90 million stadium build was fake to the low side, partly because of in-kind contributions from Arrillaga and partly (I suspect) because Stanford didn't want the total to look too large. Vandy apparently wants the total to look large ("see - we do care about football!").
On clock management:
I saw only a little to complain about on this front, at least versus most teams if not versus perfection.
I just rewatched the end of the game. In the last 10 minutes, there appeared to be a single snap with more than 10 seconds on the clock - the punt at 7:37 was with about 12 seconds on the play clock. Most plays in that span were under 5 seconds. There was a significant time wastage a little earlier, but in the fourth quarter, on the play after the Humphries PI call. It took the refs a long time to signal the play/game clock to start, the play clock appeared to have the wrong time (40 secs vs 25), the team was ready to go before the refs signalled to start the clock, the snap was a few seconds after time was whistled in. The offense could have stood around for 20+ seconds before snapping the ball. At that point there was either no thinking about the clock at all or some kind of assumption of playing under the older rules where the game clock wouldn't start until the snap.
The DOG on the FG has been fully discussed. It appeared to be a three-way issue of a very quick clock restart after the OB play, brief indecision on going for a first down or not, and a bit of a delay getting the ball snapped. Not good, but ultimately meaningless.
On Karty:
He may have the strongest leg I have seen for a Stanford place kicker. However, at the moment he is spraying the ball a little bit. A couple of his PATs just made it. I expect that to straighten out. It does look like he could make a FG at well over 60 yards.
Slight correction to BC's recipe for a Vandy bowl.
They're looking for 1 FCS team and 3 Group of Five games and 2-6 in the SEC - not 3 Power 5 out of conference games. Just a slip of the fingers.