Am I missing something?

[UConnTrumbull]

Why didn't we kneel and then spike to get it to 4th down?Kick it with 3 seconds instead of 16.

 

[JMick]

Why didn't we kneel and then spike to get it to 4th down?Kick it with 3 seconds instead of 16.

Pretty standard. You leave some time on the clock in case of a bad snap, you get another shot at the FG

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Why didn't we kneel and then spike to get it to 4th down?Kick it with 3 seconds instead of 16.

Should've kneed it on first down, make Maine take a timeout, kneel again, run it down to about 0:05, take our final timeout, kick it on 3rd down. Even if you leave yourself enough time to fumble the snap, recover, call TO and rekick (say 0:07), you at best leave Maine 0:02, and you can squib it downfield and force them to return it in an unplanned formation. I have no idea why they took the TO at 0:16.

From TV, it looked liked Diaco was arguing with a sideline official, may have been the ref misheard Diaco and thought he called a TO when he didn't.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Pretty standard. You leave some time on the clock in case of a bad snap, you get another shot at the FG

Big difference between enough time to snap it again and leaving enough time for Maine (or any competent team) to run two plays.

 

[UCFBfan]

Even if it was a mistake, after Maine called their final timeout Diaco could have trotted the offense back out to run a kneel to start the clock again and call TO when the clock got down to 6 or 7

 

[JMick]

Even if it was a mistake, after Maine called their final timeout Diaco could have trotted the offense back out to run a kneel to start the clock again and call TO when the clock got down to 6 or 7

why risk a snap? The whole game was called terribly but I don't disagree with that decision.

 

[DICKG]

Why didn't we kneel and then spike to get it to 4th down?Kick it with 3 seconds instead of 16.

Exactly. That would have been the smart play to avoid a possible kickoff runback.

 

[JMick]

Exactly. That would have been the smart play to avoid a possible kickoff runback.

I'm pretty drunk but I swear the TV said we had a timeout left

 

[DICKG]

Why didn't we kneel and then spike to get it to 4th down?Kick it with 3 seconds instead of 16.

Exactly. That would have been the smart play to avoid a possible kickoff runback.

Pretty standard. You leave some time on the clock in case of a bad snap, you get another shot at the FG

That is true if they had a timeout left.

 

[DICKG]

I'm pretty drunk but I swear the TV said we had a timeout left

It did, but then took it off. They were wrong.

 

[JMick]

It did, but then took it off. They were wrong.

ok disregard my posts then

 

[Jax Husky]

Why didn't we kneel and then spike to get it to 4th down?Kick it with 3 seconds instead of 16.

Same reason we didnt even attempt a fg or hail mary at the end of the first half