The referees may have mismanaged the game clock, but Mack Brown and UNC have mismanaged the game

After struggling to get an offensive result during a majority of the match, UNC scored 18 unanswered points in the second half to reduce Wake Forest's 21-point lead to three on Friday. The Tar Heels then forced the demon deacons to settle for a shot on goal, which allowed the player to score a goal that left only 1:09 for a winning touchdown opportunity. Sixty seconds passed and UNC could only get to its own 45-yard line.

Now imagine that you are Tar Heels coach Mack Brown in this scenario and that, thanks to the rules of the university – stopping the clock after a first try, more precisely – you may have two parts before the end of the match. What to do? Do you use both games to shoot in the end zone or do you use the first game to get as close to the goal line as possible so that the second requires less desperate heave? If you chose this last point, congratulations, Brown and you have the same football spirit. If your first hypothetical match was anything other than a draw in the center, congratulations again, you have a better footballing spirit than Brown.

Unfortunately for Brown, it was not the 2009 Big 12 Championship match, and the attacking halfback Michael Carter was not Colt McCoy, who did not escape the mark, so he was not there. was not the second he was looking for, even after the referee. examined the last piece. However, at Brown's merit, he had good reason to recuperate time, as ESPN discovered in a very slow recovery retraced after the call of the game.

Brown m said After the match, "The official on my side has stood a second … The next thing I know, is that they run off the field and I would have really liked being able to run the risk of winning a Hail Mary. "

That said, if you believe that the gameplay should help to win the winner and the loser of the game, you may find that this result for the Tar Heels is rather well deserved, even beyond the call final. UNC totaled 71 yards in the first half and had a miserable series of records to start the game.

Although they managed to come back to a score of 21-18, the Tar Heels were not in favor by allowing Wake Forest to drain five of the last six minutes of the match in the final match of the Demon Deacons game. Any coach worthy of the name would understand the end of the match and would realize that there was a lot to learn to better handle such a situation in the future. Even the players recognized their shortcomings, quarterback Sam Howell told reporters after the match, "By the end of the day, it was my turn. I have to play a lot better for our team to win. "

Do not be too hard on yourself, Sam. Your coach should probably also call for better games.