Comments on: Rick Neuheisel Should Burn Timeouts Too

By: theHoundDawg

theHoundDawg — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:09:34 +0000

Neuheisel giving up a timeout in Saturday’s sc game is an abomination. The Bruins are out-maned, out-talented, and likely out-coached, and all of Bruindom is angry enough over this situation. We do not need our coach ceding one small advantage back to the brain surgeons; an unexpected advantage handed Neuheisel and the Bruins on a silver platter, by carroll as a bi-product of his egotism in desiring to flaunt his cardinal and yellow brain surgeon colors in the Bruin’s house.

I’ve defended Neuheisel despite the horrible season the Bruins have had, and stand by his coaching abilities and the bright future of the football program I see under his tutelage. But, this gift to the brain surgeons is a slap in the face to Bruin fans, alumni, and players.

By: Larry Brown

Larry Brown — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:41:42 +0000

Carroll also said the NCAA will penalize them a timeout only in the first half, not second, so all seems to be fine.

By: SpinMax

SpinMax — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:21:07 +0000

Wow a timeout lost? That’s tough. Carroll could give each of his players a free house on live
television and the NCAA will refuse to punish them.

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:08:58 +0000

The LA Times is reporting that Neuheisel will be burning a timeout to start the game.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-sp-plaschke3-2008dec03,0,2681382.column

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:05:14 +0000

I don’t know whether Carroll really tried hard to initiate this in years past or just made a token effort. However, this year he has no risk, what with USC deservedly being a 30 point favorite. It may be that Dorrell was not amenable to the idea, or that Pete didn’t really push it when advised by the NCAA that a penalty would not be waived. In any event, the penalty turned out to be one timeout, and Neuheisel said that UCLA will call time out right after the opening kickoff to even things out.

I always loved the idea of both teams wearing home jerseys, but I think that it will be temporary this time. I am sure that other traditional rivals will try doing the same thing and that the NCAA will ban it unless the teams do indeed share their home field. In fact, Oregon State already attempted to do so, but the NCAA committee at that time told them that they would be penalized two timeouts.

By: JS

JS — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:28:35 +0000

For decades both teams wore their ‘home’ dark unis unless it was too conflicting such as USC vs Stanford or UCLA vs Cal. Then with the advent of television in the 1950’s the visiting team started wearing white so viewers watching on their black and whites could tell the players apart.

USC and UCLA both wore home unis at the Coliseum until 1983 when the NCAA mandated the road team wear white. Carroll has worked with UCLA at getting both teams to wear home unis to return to what the late
Chris Schenkel termed ‘the color and pageantry of college football.’

Will a first half time out cost? There’s a lot of ways to create a clock stoppage, see the finish of the 2005 USC-Notre Dame game when Matt Leinart’s fumble out of bounds set up the Bush Push.

Now that I think of it, cross town rivals rekindling a tradition (UCLA is wearing home uniforms at the Coliseum next year) is one thing. If all you do is forfeit a TO, Pete should clad the boys in home Cardinal at South Bend next October. I would love to see the look on Charlie’s face (if he’s still there).