Just to document this fact -
Saban on dealing with the noise in the Swamp:
"Just trying to hear Bryce change the calls or change the protection, it can be hard sometimes just trying to hear,” Ekiyor said. “We had some issues with that sometimes and communicating which type of cadence we were doing. Sometimes we were confused on whether we were going on the clap. We had started with the clap going into the game, but as the sound got louder, obviously couldn’t hear the clap. We went to a silent cadence later on in the game, so that was a little bit better.”
Mullen:
""I mean, the snap count, our snap count we’ve used it, most people use it around the country. The teams we’ve played have used it in the Swamp," Mullen said Monday. "That’s something we’ll look at with our guys. It’s something we use and most teams around the country use. It’s something we’re looking at to make sure we’re communicating everything the right way.”
Florida clearly had a plan going into the game for a clap count. Dan Mullen was asked how easy or if possible to make a change in the middle of the game.
“You can do it, yeah. Obviously, it's much easier said than done. There's a lot that goes into what we practice and how we do things so," Mullen said. "But, you know, we're gonna continue to look at each one of the different scenarios and everything that happens and we'll go improve on it and coach it up and get it fixed.”
I didn’t watch it, but he didn’t at any point say something like “It doesn’t matter if it was 6 minutes, 6 days, or 6 weeks, by the time we got the ball in range, there wasn’t enough time left to get set and kick it.”
