AZGrizFan said:
Zirg said:
I don't believe in trying to pick an actual score. UW will win handily is a safe assumption. When you are the prohibitive underdog, smart coaches will try to use as much clock as possible to make it a shorter game. Stitt's huge ego and inflexibility to run anything but the hurry-up will likely result in an ugly result and give UW several extra possessions they wouldn't get if we used the clock wisely. When the Griz play teams like Valpo and Savannah State is is wise to run the hurry-up to get more possessions and total plays as eventually JLM and other talented guys will bust a big plays if given more opportunities. I've never understood why severe underdogs run the hurry-up, especially with a lead, like Indiana had on Ohio State. They were actually winning and still ran the hurry-up. Why? Make the game shorter, and the underdog has a better chance to pull the upset, something that Stitt and other dumb coaches don't seem to understand.
When teams that run the hurry up exclusively try to "milk the clock", they tend to look disjointed and out of sorts on offense....it's not as easy as just slowing things down.
Exactly. Zirg is just assuming that at some point the offense that got us ahead will just falter? At what point do we slow the offense down? The minute we have a lead? So we start running an offense that's inferior to our normal one early in the second half?
How is that not just "playing not to lose", and the exact thing 90% of the people on this board supposedly hate? Didn't Ohio State win by like 20 points? Pretty sure that had next to nothing to do with the tempo of Illinois' offense.
If you're in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, then yes, milk that clock to 1 second (which Stitt has had a problem doing early in his career), but any time before that whenever you run an offense designed not to lose, you've put yourself in a terrible position.
Ask SDSU fans if they wish their team had kept it's foot on the gas in the third quarter in 2009.
