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The timeout in football has almost become permanently linked with offense and clock management.
The thinking being a team must preserve all — or, at least, the majority — of its timeouts for the end of the first half or the game in order to give its offense every opportunity to put points on the scoreboard.
Count Southern Miss’ Jay Hopson among those who don’t subscribe to such a philosophy. The second-year Golden Eagle head coach steers clear — either by choice or maybe subconsciously — of revealing too much about his strategy.