Damn, they had there chance , then lost it. I like OSU over ND. The CFP did get the right teams in.
Texas /OSU
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I HATE TEAMS that need one yard and drop back in the shotgun or try to get cute.... And whatever happened to the good ole bootleg in those situations? Come on... What stupid coaching in that situation imo
How could they not? They took everybody noteworthy that had less than three losses or who won championships of even undistinguished conferences. I could see all of the final four in there anyhow.
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And what happened to punting on fourth down and more than two early in ballgames? Anybody remember the coffin corner? I'm not talking exclusively about this game.
Agree. Need to go FORWARD 1 yard but call a toss to the outside making it about a 20 yard effort..... dumb. Beyond dumb.
That's what spread offenses have given us: pansy-@$$ed football. And analytics have given us stupid-@$$ed football.
True. Analytics is the equivalent of the college professor teaching a theory they never lived, that appears to sound good, but causes you trouble you can't overcome.
IMO, analytics is the most overused word during most broadcasts (couldn't we just call it being aggressive, sometimes even overly so)...if turned into a drinking game you might not make it into the second half....especially is you're watching Ol' Miss and include injury timeouts as well, lol.
I was thinking at 1st down from the 1, Manning coming in to finish the drive. He was their best option in these situations IMO. I thought all year he was under used. Ewers, I never thought he would be that guy to bring UT a trophy.
With the exception of Jeff Monken at Army. Makes brilliant / fearless decisions, extremely rare when it does not work out for him.
Three things about going against traditional doctrine: (1), doing so works less frequently against good teams coached by good coaches. (2), the more you gamble, the more you increase the odds of untimely failure. (3), the more you go off script, the thicker the book others compile on you becomes and the readier they are if you deviate from conventional wisdom. In Russian Roulette, the odds are always in your favor on any given spin, but turn more against you with each added pull of the trigger.
The opposing coaches can read Beamer ''The Gambler'' like an open book and the sooner he figures it out the better.
Baseball's started going in the crapper when they adopted the DH, then managing the game by pitch counts, and now all the stupidity about putting a man on second base to cut down on extra innings. The only thing I like, and think they needed, is the pitch clock.
That is all well and good, but I'm standing with my original statement concerning Jeff Monken HC Army.
I admire they guy - truly. I also think that he's using up a lot of other people's good karma, including that of our boy down in Columbia. He'll also use up his own eventually.
For decades, none of this nonsense was needed. Even a shame about the pitch clock, but teams/pitchers brought it on themselves.
I can't even watch MLB on TV anymore - the production values to me are akin to reality TV.
These ''improvements'' did nothing to improve the game itself, but they were not instituted for that purpose. Same for the other sports as well.
MLB and college football are going to continue to be improved until no one watches either one of them any more. MLB is already pretty unwatchable and college football is quickly heading that way.
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