Critical Analysis of Clock Mismanagement in Colorado’s Game Against North Dakota State

The clock mismanagement at the end of the game was egregious. I do believe that that was Shadour’s call at the end of the game. I haven’t talked to anybody within the organization of the program, and I don’t know this to be absolutely the fact, but what happened at the end of the game with the clock management, if you. If you didn’t see it, with a minute 41, Colorado had the lead, and they had first down. All right, Notre. Or. Excuse me. North Dakota State had some timeouts, and it. All you need to know is that if you just play it out correctly, North Dakota State receives the ball, at worst, with about five seconds left or four seconds left in the game. And yet what happened? They threw the ball on first down with a minute 41. This cannot happen. Now, if it was a check on the field by the quarterback, then that’s going to be evaluated by the next level. That can’t happen. There is no way that you, as an offense can stop the clock for the defense in that moment. They must burn their timeouts. The sequence goes like this. Anybody knows this? This was about. This was almost a Mario Cristobal moment, and it almost burned them, because North Dakota State got the ball and drive back, and they catch a Hail Mary. We’ll get to that in a moment. First down, 1:41 left. What do you do? Run the ball? I don’t Care if there’s 11 guys stuffed in the run box? You run the ball. Whether you want to hand it off or run it with the quarterback, you run the football. Takes about five seconds. North Dakota State, what do they do? They take a time out. And five seconds is generous, by the way. Some of them take six or seven seconds. So this is just in in. In a very conservative clock management style. So now it’s second down, there’s a minute 35 left. What do you do? Run the ball. You have to run the ball. In that situation, there is no other option. I do not care what the defense does or what they’re in. You run the football. The clock must run. The fact that North Dakota State touched the football with a chance to win is an egregious mistake. Egregious mistake. It’s unsustainable to play this way if you’re Colorado. They have elite talent, and you cannot waste it with these same mistakes that they continue to waste it with. Everything that I’m talking about is factual. None of it is personal. And if it continues, they will lose a fair share amount of their games. Why do I know that? Because in that conference, they will play eight to nine one possession games from here on out. They just played one against North Dakota State. They’re gonna play eight or nine more in that league. Because everybody’s bunched up, everybody is good, everybody is tough in That league. So if you don’t fix these things that were clear mistakes, they will come back to haunt you. It’s the exact same type of mistakes that we saw last year. It bit them in the butt. And that’s why they only won four games and they didn’t go to a bowl game. I said they could win eight or nine games. Not if they play like this.