Warning: This entire column is about 25 seconds. Nine hundred words to describe what happens in the time it takes to make a bowl of cereal, read the morning headlines or send a text message. As a result, if you are pregnant, have a heart condition, disproportionate height and weight or any type of neck injury, please put down the newspaper and walk away. Still with me? Then get ready for the craziest half-minute in college sports.
During Thursday night's football game against North Carolina, Jameel Sewell threw 26 passes and handed off 38 times from the line of scrimmage. For Sewell, that was the easy part. What ESPN watchers nationwide didn't realize was that every one of Sewell's slant passes to Kevin Ogletree or hand-offs to Jason Snelling was the result of a mind-bendingly complicated sequence that happened under the radar in the blink of an eye.
Picture any of Virginia's games this season. From the moment the referee spots the ball after a play until the second it leaves the center's hands to start the next, Sewell has 25 seconds to do the impossible. In less than a minute, the redshirt freshman must communicate with his coaches, relay the play, confidently organize his offense in the huddle, read (and gamble) on the defensive formation, adjust his receivers, identify problem areas, shout his cadence and get the snap off cleanly
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