Four seconds is not a long time. During South Carolina's game with Tennessee over the weekend, Will Muschamp and company probably felt as though four seconds had now become the new seven or eight seconds.
On what turned out to be the second-to-last play of the game, Tennessee ran a quick pass out left with only four seconds on the clock. Despite the quarterback hanging in the pocket for nearly two seconds after the snap, plus the flight time of the ball, the Vols somehow managed to still have a second left to run another play.
Now, deservedly so, Will Muschamp wants the SEC to review the entire debacle.
First thing is first. In the below video you can see what we are talking about:
Now here are some of the quotes from the commentary that is in that video:
“It’s the last play no matter what,” ESPN analyst Tommy Tuberville said as he offered up ideas on what play the Vols might run with four seconds left.
Oh, well he turned out to be wrong.
“We’ve got a home field timekeeper here,” Tuberville followed when one second remained on the clock.
Radio analyst Tommy Suggs said on 107.5 FM, The Game: “How does that play only take three seconds? That is absolutely ridiculous, I think.”
Play-by-play man Todd Ellis said, “He was standing in the pocket a long time.”
So far, not a single person believes that play only took three seconds.
Even Jack Bentley was confused over the entire situation.
“We practice those situations all the time, every practice, every single day. We’re doing two-minute drives and different situations,” quarterback Jake Bentley said. “Our defense does a great job in practice so I had full confidence in them. Those last couple plays, I don’t know how that one play only took three seconds, but it was a great job by them to hold them right there.”
Luckily, for the sake of avoiding conspiracy theorists, South Carolina won the game. Had the Gamecocks not, the Vols and the New England Patriots would both be at the hub of conspiracy theory central today.
SEC, what say you?
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