These threads are great. When the odds are so low, you can consider a lot of crazy scenerios and Hafley isn’t taking major heat for any decision since they probably lose anyway.
No matter how you look at it though, the combo of punting and calling that time out was a poor decision by BC (albeit their options were bad to begin with). The time out gave us more time to get set and reduced the chance of an RU muff (we had the option not to field it and let the ball roll if AC wasn’t sure he could handle it - I’m sure that was discussed when we regrouped). And the time out ensured that if RU ran 3 run plays BC would be getting the ball back with at best 10 seconds on the clock vs. potentially close to a minute if they had tried to get a punt off ASAP and it still would’ve been more time if they had to take a delay of game.
No matter how you look at it though, the combo of punting and calling that time out was a poor decision by BC (albeit their options were bad to begin with). The time out gave us more time to get set and reduced the chance of an RU muff (we had the option not to field it and let the ball roll if AC wasn’t sure he could handle it - I’m sure that was discussed when we regrouped). And the time out ensured that if RU ran 3 run plays BC would be getting the ball back with at best 10 seconds on the clock vs. potentially close to a minute if they had tried to get a punt off ASAP and it still would’ve been more time if they had to take a delay of game.