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Post by utchuckd on Sept 17, 2007 11:10:14 GMT -6
We played a team that's pretty down this year and got up 35-0 by halftime. The new mercy rule in Tennessee keeps the clock running for the second half if it's a 35 point margin. I think I agree with the idea but it may need to be tweaked some. When they say running clock they mean running clock, it didn't stop for anything. We had a stoppage of play to measure for a first down that ran almost 5 minutes of the play clock. They put together a decent drive to open the 3rd quarter (including the measurement) and when we finally stopped them we had time to run 1 play before the quarter ran out. We got our seconds in at the break, but only ended up running 7 offensive plays in the second half. Not much work for the backups.
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coachf
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Post by coachf on Sept 17, 2007 11:58:28 GMT -6
That doesn't seem right. In Illinois it is running clock, with the exception of TD's, officials timeouts, team timeouts, injuries, etc. The running clock just keeps it going despite an incompletion or out of bounds play.
Sort of sucks for the backups. They deserve more time than that. But, anything to make little Joey's parents feel better when they are getting spanked.
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Post by gldnglv165 on Sept 18, 2007 11:54:22 GMT -6
Hey, we were on the other end of that! We have the same rule here. We got down 38-0 at half and had a running clock the second half. We ended up getting in 20 plays of offense the entire game. That second half lasted only a half hour, and we ended up using all three timeouts just so we could get a couple more plays in. We had three possessions in the second half, they had two (both of theirs ended quickly with interceptions). I thought it was a little ridiculous too, not getting playing time for the back ups because the game just melted away so fast.
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Post by WTR on Sept 18, 2007 12:12:28 GMT -6
If coaches in general would sub their players in the 2nd half there wouldnt be a need for a mercy rule. Unfortunantley, we have coaches in our profession that get off on running up the score on inferior opponents.
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Post by knight9299 on Sept 18, 2007 12:17:40 GMT -6
If coaches in general would sub their players in the 2nd half there wouldnt be a need for a mercy rule. Unfortunantley, we have coaches in our profession that get off on running up the score on inferior opponents. We ran into it as well Friday. Thankfully the other coach is one of the few in the district that will play his back ups. |
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mib36
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Post by mib36 on Sept 19, 2007 9:00:56 GMT -6
We played a team 2 weeks ago that is playing their first varsity season. Our backups played part of the first quarter and most of the 2nd. Some JV's played in the 2nd quarter and played the entire second half. Running clock in the second half and We ran 7 offensive plays, scoring on 3 of them. We had 23 total offensive plays for the game, 4 of which were knees. Final Score: 82-0. I don't know what else we could have done...
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Post by amikell on Sept 19, 2007 9:04:36 GMT -6
WOW that is impressive mib. good for you for trying to limit the scoring. holy cow.
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Post by jraybern on Sept 19, 2007 20:16:20 GMT -6
We're fortunate enough to have a good varsity squad and the worst backups in the country. We get up big on a team and go 1st team offense, 2nd team defense. We trade scores. Won our second game 82-48. Everyone felt good about the game (except varsity defense - but most of them are also varsity offense). Even the other team, as bad as they were, was able to have some success.
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