Hugh Freeze weighed in on the NCAA’s new clock rules this season. The Auburn is not convinced the new rule will actually speed up games.
The game clock will now no longer stop after a first down, except during the last two minutes of each half. Untimed downs can only happen in the second and fourth quarters. Teams can’t call multiple timeouts in a row now either.
Freeze looked at how the new rule impacted games on noticed that teams were only able to call about six or eight less plays a game. While Freeze noted that he isn’t the smartest guy out there, but he doesn’t believe it will make that much of a difference.
“I think every analytic that you look at, it seems to be that you’re looking at maybe 6 to 8 plays less a game. And I’m not the most brilliant guy in the world, but I don’t that that’s really, if you’re going to go fast after a first down, for those teams that choose to do that, it’s not going to — you’re not going to lose than many seconds I don’t think. I’m really curious as to if it has a huge advantage or disadvantage, I don’t see it changing your philosophy from whether you’re a tempo team or not. I really just don’t know how you would go about doing that. You don’t feel comfortable going, I don’t anyway, and I’ve done tempo for years, I don’t feel comfortable going fast just for the sake of going fast on 2nd and long, or 3rd and long or you want to get it right. And so there’s only certain times where you, where I feel really comfortable doing that anyway. So I’m really not sure. I do expect it to cut a few plays off in the game, but I’ll be curious to see what that number ends up being.”
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Grant Bricker was a former freelancer for The News TN in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. He now freelances for Saturday Football. Follow on Twitter @GrantBricker.
