DAMN YOU OVERTIME
Thanks, overtime. We woke up late thanks to Bill Stewart’s SMRT clock management, though to be fair: we owe West Virginia’s kicker a debt of gratitude for getting us to bed earlier than the worst case scenario could have been.
The moment in that game where we realized Bill Stewart could not manage a team came not at the end of the second half-which was really just piling on evidence of an already strong verdict-but at the end of the first half. Bill Stewart took both timeouts with great effort and and insistence in order to make CU punt from their 5 yard line or so. On 4th down with three seconds, Dan Hawkins and Colorado opted to foil the whole thing by looking at the clock, seeing it had 3 seconds, doing some very complex math and then calling a run play…which ran out the clock and took the team harmlessly to the half.
It was a bit like watching the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the swordsman flails impressively for an instant in the bazaar showdown before Indy grabs his gun and shoots him dead.
And now, for no reason whatsoever: Teenage Riot.
Index coming in a bit.
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My “gee, this experiment is going to end in flames and noxious smoke” moment was when the timeout was wasted due to only having nine guys on the field for an extra point. First, nine guys? Second, why bother with the timeout?
Comment by Biggus Rickus — September 19, 2025 @ 8:46 am
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I have three WVU grad clients. It’s despondency on an Alabamian level.
Comment by Bobby Decatur — September 19, 2025 @ 8:45 am
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Swindle just hasn’t adjusted to the new clock rules. That’s alright. I spent part of my hangover this morning recapping to the top sales manager in my entire corporation the UC/WFVU game they played in last night in Buffalo.
Comment by Allahver Fist — September 19, 2025 @ 8:42 am
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Bill Stewart = Carl Torbush when he took over for Mack Brown at Carolina.
WVa will not be heard from again for a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time.
Knee jerk hires = brilliant
Comment by Coop — September 19, 2025 @ 8:38 am
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You get what you pay for.
Comment by Bobby Decatur — September 19, 2025 @ 8:38 am
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Bill would’ve been fine if he’d just listened to Kirk Lazarus: “You never go full retard”
Comment by sandman227 — September 19, 2025 @ 8:35 am
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Wait, you mean Bill Stewart isn’t picking right up where RichRod left off like all the WVU fans thought?
Oh, you meant choking against unranked opponents like Pittsburgh? Oh, my bad.
Comment by Yukon Cornelius — September 19, 2025 @ 8:27 am
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I was actually embarrassed for Stewart at the end of both halves. “This guy has worse clock management skills then Les Miles!” I said to the wife.
Of course, I said that knowing full well that Auburn could lose to both of those coaches this year, with me in attendance. That would suck.
Comment by ChemE93 — September 19, 2025 @ 8:26 am
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I don’t wanna say that Bill Stewart is in over his head but here is my impression of him:
http://www.pbase.com/digitalgee/image/34776777
And I would have gone with Teenage Fanclub, but that’s just me.
Comment by GamecockTony — September 19, 2025 @ 8:24 am
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No, damn you Swindle. As I scrolled down to the video I was primed to see Dr. Jones bust a cap in that sword swinger, but no. Now I have to go all the way to youtube. . .
And yeah, I think the Bill Stewart experiment is just going gangbusters so far. It’s now really only a matter of weeks before they replace him with Major Harris. Because “hiring from within the family” always works. I mean, that’s how we got that extraordinary run of success under Ray Goff.
Comment by MaconDawg — September 19, 2025 @ 8:22 am