Late audibles are nothing new at K-State. When I was a student starting in 2002, we often counted down the play clock in a misguided attempt at helpfulness toward Ell Roberson. Then groaned our disgust when we burned a timeout in the first quarter of an early-season thrashing of Eastern Dakota State. Wildcat00 told me in a conversation today they did the same thing when she was in school, which was, like, eons ago, man. Furnace mentioned in yesterday’s Slate that he talked to Lynn Dickey about it shortly after brontosaurus met his unfortunate demise.
If someone had lots of time and patience, they could probably rewatch a lot of Snyder-era games on YouTube and chart how often we audible late in the play clock and determine our success rate on those plays.