Ruffin gets late TD to cover for TTU boosters

mamatried · Jan 3, 2010

LOL. First, he goes for it on fourth down instead of kicking the field goal to go up by 6. Then, after they convert, all he has to do is take a knee and run out the clock. Guess this guy really wants the job.

OAKAS · Jan 3, 2010

RUFF RUFF RUFF

oddsonsports · Jan 3, 2010

country as an egg lol

anyone hear him say that?

D2bets · Jan 3, 2010

mamatried said:
LOL. First, he goes for it on fourth down instead of kicking the field goal to go up by 6. Then, after they convert, all he has to do is take a knee and run out the clock. Guess this guy really wants the job.

Wrong. They weren't in a kneel situation. But, he actually went for it TWICE on fourth down, the second one more questionable, and then clearly they did want to score again. But, it was 1st down with 2:45 left. Can't kneel that out.

bigtex · Jan 3, 2010

Anytime you are not up by more than 8 points in foots, you are only 1 play away from being tied or beaten. Ive seen it happen many times.

Plus he had alot of TTU backers that needed that last TD.

mamatried · Jan 3, 2010

D2bets said:
Wrong. They weren't in a kneel situation. But, he actually went for it TWICE on fourth down, the second one more questionable, and then clearly they did want to score again. But, it was 1st down with 2:45 left. Can't kneel that out.

Mich State out of timeouts. You're right, he can't technically kneel it out, but he can run 4 snaps and give the Spartans 1 play to make 85 yards. Percentages much better than risking a turnover.

I had no problem with the first time he went for it on 4th down - it would have been a long FG. But the second time was ridiculous.

I sure hope he was just trying to cover. He makes decisions like those in the Big 12 it will come back to bite him big time.

Fishhead · Jan 3, 2010

Have you ever looked closely at the TT fans, coaches, and players...........?????

I don't think any of them would have any clue what a pointspread was.

!~~~!

HPark1 · Jan 3, 2010

Fishhead said:
Have you ever looked closely at the TT fans, coaches, and players...........?????

I don't think any of them would have any clue what a pointspread was.

!~~~!

:lolBIG:

Legend-I-Aint · Jan 3, 2010

mamatried said:
LOL. First, he goes for it on fourth down instead of kicking the field goal to go up by 6. Then, after they convert, all he has to do is take a knee and run out the clock. Guess this guy really wants the job.

taking a knee is so lame

louisvillekid · Jan 3, 2010

and i thank him for that.

nhoj · Jan 3, 2010

I would bet most Tech Fans, players or boosters even own a computer. Maybe if their tractor came with one in it.

Illini · Jan 3, 2010

D2bets said:
Wrong. They weren't in a kneel situation. But, he actually went for it TWICE on fourth down, the second one more questionable, and then clearly they did want to score again. But, it was 1st down with 2:45 left. Can't kneel that out.

They could have easily kneeled. If they let the clock run down to 1 instead of 7 when they called the timeout after 3rd down, they would have been able to kneel. Even where they were at, they could have knelt if they would have dropped back a few yards and taken 4 seconds a play.

2:30 is the magic number. If you get a first down with 2:30 left and stay in bounds, you cannot lose if the other team is out of timeouts. But almost no coaches know this, and people like Mack Brown put their QB in the shotgun and have him scramble for yards when they should be in victory formation taking a knee.

Hey coaches, how about mixing in a little arithmetic during the 16 hour days you put in coming up with your gameplan?

Chukker15 · Jan 3, 2010

Only way TT could have lost this game was to score a TD. Mich. St. had 2 minutes for a big return or defender fall down ,score quickly and onside kick.I don't know but they scored 31 on them thru 3 1/2 quarters. Didn't have action on game but have seen stranger things happen.Take a knee ball game over.

D2bets · Jan 3, 2010

Illini said:
They could have easily kneeled. If they let the clock run down to 1 instead of 7 when they called the timeout after 3rd down, they would have been able to kneel. Even where they were at, they could have knelt if they would have dropped back a few yards and taken 4 seconds a play.

2:30 is the magic number. If you get a first down with 2:30 left and stay in bounds, you cannot lose if the other team is out of timeouts. But almost no coaches know this, and people like Mack Brown put their QB in the shotgun and have him scramble for yards when they should be in victory formation taking a knee.

Hey coaches, how about mixing in a little arithmetic during the 16 hour days you put in coming up with your gameplan?

I thought the magic number was around 2 minutes. If you take 1st down snap at 2:45 and you assume 5 seconds per play, then 35 second play clock.

2nd down snap @ 2:05
3rd down snap @ 1:25
4th down snap @ :45, clock doesn't run on turnover on down, does it?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the magic number is right around 2 minutes without timeouts.

OnWisconsin · Jan 3, 2010

do what the sooners did the other day.....have the qb run around and go down right before he gets the shit knocked out of him

Fishhead · Jan 3, 2010

If Ruffin is indeed hired as head coach, do we bet against TT every game?

Birdman · Jan 3, 2010

D2bets said:
I thought the magic number was around 2 minutes. If you take 1st down snap at 2:45 and you assume 5 seconds per play, then 35 second play clock.

2nd down snap @ 2:05
3rd down snap @ 1:25
4th down snap @ :45, clock doesn't run on turnover on down, does it?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the magic number is right around 2 minutes without timeouts.[/quote

You get a first down with 2:30 your first down snap occurs at 2:00. You have first down snap at 2:30

max1234 · Jan 3, 2010

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Why? He's got the best record in America against the spread. 1-0.

Birdman · Jan 3, 2010

12-15 years ago Baylor could have kneed out at opp 2 yd line. went for TD with 20 seconds left and fumble returned 99 yds TD. Nuff said Lost game

Fishhead · Jan 3, 2010

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Why? He's got the best record in America against the spread. 1-0.