Lol anyone giving him credit for this.....this is literally owned by every team. I'd be surprised if they hired someone to literally just do this but I imagine they assigned an analyst/grad assistant with this responsibility.
Like even NFL coaches have this guy.
Yes, every team has one. He admitted Miami did last year too, it's not like they didn't know they were able to run out the clock against GT. They talked about it. They just decided not to do it.
He's learning from it, which is all you can ask for at this point. It happened, we can't go back and fix it. Just make sure it never happens again.
I'm more concerned about the overall coaching, though, versus just end of game time management. We looked lost at the end of halves and games last year, with no real gameplan that everyone was on the same page executing. Does Mario even know what the "middle 8" is? It's incredibly important. If we're down by 14 in the 4th quarter, and we score, will he go for two as is literally mathematically the correct call?
There is also a two-minute warning now in college football. It'll be very interesting to see how the team does around that. Will we know it's coming up and be able to get an additional play in when we want? Or will it sneak up on us?
Taking a knee is the least of my worries. He'll never do that again. It's the rest of the **** he needs to be better at. If he's hiring someone to just handle that for him, that's good.