Would someone explain the end of half no TO?

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I know it's a few days old but I saw a lot of complaints where Butch should've called timeout at the end of the 1st half. Why? The offense has scored 3 points all half and a 3 and out gives Georgia the ball back with a minute plus. Instead they punted it back with 30 seconds.

My dad asked why he wasn't calling TO and I knew right away it wasn't a bad idea.

Again, old debate.
 
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You answer your own question.....get to half and regroup without any more GA pts on board. Coach Jones coach a great game.
 
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I was livid when he didn't call a timeout. .so much so that I got some dirty looks in my section. Just shows the lack of confidence in our offense but just imagine how big a field goal would have been there. If you were at the game, you know that there were a lot of boos when butch sent the punt team out on fourth and inches. . There was a Georgia time out and he grabbed his sack... went for it and got it. He realized being conservative won't get us wins.
 
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In hindsight, there will be people who say it worked out and was a good calk. At the time, I had no problem with it. When your team has no rhythm, you have to minimize the opponent's scoring and regroup. He had a good feel for his team. If we win, this isn't second guessed. Just the nature if the job.
 
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I was ticked felt like we were playing not to lose. It ended up working out tho
 
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I can see both sides, but I thought it was the right call by not taking the time out. As great as a score would have been for us, how devastating would it have been for GA to score right before halftime?
 
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A-RodWiLks said:
I was livid when he didn't call a timeout. .so much so that I got some dirty looks in my section. Just shows the lack of confidence in our offense but just imagine how big a field goal would have been there. If you were at the game, you know that there were a lot of boos when butch sent the punt team out on fourth and inches. . There was a Georgia time out and he grabbed his sack... went for it and got it. He realized being conservative won't get us wins.
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Are you thinking of the 4th and 6 when UT punted but UGA was flagged for delay of game and then UT went for it on 4th and 1?
 
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Did you see Worley throwing the ball in the first half?

And you expected him to run the hurry up and get us in position to score?
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
It had nothing to do with that sequence. If Georgia gets another score before the half we may not have taken the lead late. Coach put us in a position to win the game.
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i think that was what CBJ was doing,he has said that the idea is to be close in the 4th quarter,to be in position to win the game,so i would expect a lot of conservative play calling the rest of the year during the first half
 
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didn't we throw the ball after not calling a timeout? if we were wanting to get to the half, we would've ran the ball after not taking a timeout.
 
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BIG ADAM said:
didn't we throw the ball after not calling a timeout? if we were wanting to get to the half, we would've ran the ball after not taking a timeout.
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Right, but the plan was to see if they could get a 1st down and get rolling al least enough for the field goal, but just in case of a 3 & out Georgia would only have 30 secs instead of 1.10 min.

I thought it was the right move but I still saw a lot of complaining.
 
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I was livid during the game but after thinking about it it was a good coaching move. Georgia had their timeouts as well and our offense was not clicking at that point. We were getting the ball to start second half and Jones did not want to be down 17-24 points.
 
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We still had plenty of time to score or kick a FG when we got it back. We threw the ball and tried to get in position but were 3 and out. If we would have completed one he would have called a TO. We did not but UGA did not have time to put a late FG up. Our team had no rhythm at that time and we were getting ball first 2nd half. Live to play a 2nd half.
 
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I have to remind myself that we are not the Tyler Bray O of the last couple of years and sometimes its best just to do control the damage and regroup. At that moment I was not happy but I am still not used to a coach that can actually make halftime adjustments. In hindsight, he was exactly right and that's why he is the coach and I am full Butch.
 
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Some people need to go back to highschool and learn football 101 again. You don't take the timeout there because ga could run the clock out and kick it and we still have our two timeouts and 1:06 do score. The click stops on first downs while the change move. If and when you don't get a first down you call the timeout to stop clock. Hard to do this with just one time out, because you would have to complete a first down run or throw every attempt. So we chose to keep the timeouts an attempt to make our drive with still plenty of time on clock and our timeouts to go attempt to score. People in my section were yelling time out!!! I was yelling shut up if you have know idea what your talking about!!!!
 
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RSATURDAY said:
Some people need to go back to highschool and learn football 101 again. You don't take the timeout there because ga could run the clock out and kick it and we still have our two timeouts and 1:06 do score. The click stops on first downs while the change move. If and when you don't get a first down you call the timeout to stop clock. Hard to do this with just one time out, because you would have to complete a first down run or throw every attempt. So we chose to keep the timeouts an attempt to make our drive with still plenty of time on clock and our timeouts to go attempt to score. People in my section were yelling time out!!! I was yelling shut up if you have know idea what your talking about!!!!
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I don't agree at all. I'd rather have the ball with one timeout and 1:40 on the clock than two timeouts and 1:06. Timeouts are more important on the defensive side of the ball. Especially in college with the clock stopping on first down.
 
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Some of you must not understand football. Or some of you are such great coaches I wonder why you haven't been hired to coach.

Rewatch the game please.
 
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A-RodWiLks said:
I was livid when he didn't call a timeout. .so much so that I got some dirty looks in my section. Just shows the lack of confidence in our offense but just imagine how big a field goal would have been there. If you were at the game, you know that there were a lot of boos when butch sent the punt team out on fourth and inches. . There was a Georgia time out and he grabbed his sack... went for it and got it. He realized being conservative won't get us wins.
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You do know that the play you are talking about was actually this:

4th and 5 1/2 yards, Tennessee punting, Oh wait Georgia is called for delay of game 5 yard penalty. Now it is 4th and about 1/2 yard. Tennessee goes for it and makes it.

Rewatch the game and actually watch, pay attention, and try to understand what is going on.
 
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A-RodWiLks said:
I was livid when he didn't call a timeout. .so much so that I got some dirty looks in my section. Just shows the lack of confidence in our offense but just imagine how big a field goal would have been there. If you were at the game, you know that there were a lot of boos when butch sent the punt team out on fourth and inches. . There was a Georgia time out and he grabbed his sack... went for it and got it. He realized being conservative won't get us wins.
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With the time remaining and the field position, Coach made the correct decision. Look at his decisions during the second halt and try justifying your statement.
 
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You call that timeout IF you have a great offense that can get it down the field into scoring position. I think CBJ felt we were better off going in at the half and making adjustments and I can't say he's wrong because the coaching was absolutely flawless in the second half.
 
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Absolutely the correct coaching decision for that moment.

It's not like he was playing for overtime with a high powered offense complete with 2 high round draft pick receivers and a QB that can absolutely get them the ball. What kind of numb nuts loser would do that?
 
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