Thompson

keith · December 6, 2009

Many times the first lead the winning team gets is on the last play of the game. The objective is to win the game. Every game -- whether it is the first game of the year or the last game of the year. Use whatever weapons you have to achieve that objective. We held them to 3 points in the second half. The momentum was ours and everyone in the stands knew it. There were a lot of nervous nellies standing most of the 4th quarter.

Personally, I'd rather see students come in, hit the books and finish school in 4 years and play as much during those 4 years as their skill and ability with allow them to and then move on with their lives. Saving players for what the might do or be in 3 or 4 years is a crap shoot. There is a long history of players we invested 2 or 3 years in that never set foot on the field. That is the waste.

Keith

Got5onIt · December 6, 2009

But it seems to me we had a better chance at scoring a touchdown than a FG, especially since it would have been blocked, as you saw in your cracked crystal ball. 30-26 is what I remember with a CHANCE to pull out a victory. Using your convoluted reasoning, I guess when any team gets down they should just walk off the field and head to the house. Do you even watch football? Texas was getting spanked by OSU a couple years back only to come back and win, that's only one example of something that plays out every year in college athletics. People remember UT climbed out of a huge hole to win the game but in your mind the coach should have been fired on the spot and the players should have been shipped out of town on a rail. Last I heard there are at least 4 quarters to every football contest and the one with the most points after the final whistle is the winner. If you quit when you are down then that will never happen.
Concerning my coaching abilities, I'm not the one beating my chest telling everyone about how I know more than those being paid to coach, players that play, and fans that believe. I know every coach in college knows more than all but maybe 1% of the armchair coaches, and you are not in that 1%, but you seem to think you are the god of coaching. If that is the case, why don't you go out and make a living coaching College football but just so you know, coaches make real time decisions and don't get to wait until after the play to make their call. Get out of you LazyBoy, put your controller down, and quit thinking that being able to play Madden on the novice level makes you into some kind of coaching genius. I watch the games and know eventually this team will put it together either with you or without you, you have no bearing on that. It is not on your timeline but it will happen. GMG

So you're now proclaiming to be the best Armchair Coach here??

Yeah, this team will put it together. Given enough time: 2-20 years or so, it will happen. Improvement? Yeah, I saw it, too. But what did you expect when you're program is already scraping the bottom of the abyss?