Br@ssknux
Pretty much a regular
One thing I will never understand is why college football coaches, especially those who coach heavy underdogs, feel it is necessary to turn themselves into sniveling simpering frightened cowards whenever they are in the position to actually pull off a monumental upset. It happened again yesterday, with Jacksonville State's coach doing the honors. I won't even bother looking up his name.
We all know that Jacksonville St's players played a great game yesterday. They moved the ball on Auburn, stopped their offense and went toe to toe with them all day. Obviously they aren't the equal of Auburn overall, but yesterday they were. They should have been confident because they proved for 3 hours that they could compete. Late in the game, they get a turnover while up 20-13. One first down pretty much clinches the game for them because Auburn will be out of timeouts. If the coaching staff shows any kind of confidence in their players, you do what you've done all day: run your offense and get a first down. But no....in college football, a transformation takes place. Instead of going out and winning the game, they revert to the fetal position and run 3 line plunges hoping to run time off the clock, deathly afraid of some sort of turnover. The predictable happens. They punt, their FCS punter has pee running down his leg, Auburn gets it in great field position and they score, because in college football, teams have proven time and time again that very little time is needed to score due to the clock stopping on first downs. Even 40 seconds with no time outs is an eternity. There was obviously plenty of time for that so "running clock" did you no good anyway.
Then, with a full 38 seconds on the clock and the ball at the 35 yard line, they take a knee to play for overtime. Why would anyone do that? Why would you forfeit a possession in a tie game? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE ASSHOLE!!! Does anyone think that Auburn wasn't thanking their lucky stars that they didn't have to stop them one more time, with all the craziness that can happen in a final minute? Even if Jax State threw a pick, and Auburn won in regulation, is that somehow worse than losing in OT? Do you get 2 losses in that scenario? Everyone in the stadium, and probably in the country knew that Auburn is winning that game if it goes to OT.
I'll never understand why coaches, when it's time to win a game, will always go the coward's route and in effect reduce their team's chances of winning the game. Like I said before, it's almost like there is some payoff to losing "conservatively" rather than playing aggressively to get the win. It's maddening.
We all know that Jacksonville St's players played a great game yesterday. They moved the ball on Auburn, stopped their offense and went toe to toe with them all day. Obviously they aren't the equal of Auburn overall, but yesterday they were. They should have been confident because they proved for 3 hours that they could compete. Late in the game, they get a turnover while up 20-13. One first down pretty much clinches the game for them because Auburn will be out of timeouts. If the coaching staff shows any kind of confidence in their players, you do what you've done all day: run your offense and get a first down. But no....in college football, a transformation takes place. Instead of going out and winning the game, they revert to the fetal position and run 3 line plunges hoping to run time off the clock, deathly afraid of some sort of turnover. The predictable happens. They punt, their FCS punter has pee running down his leg, Auburn gets it in great field position and they score, because in college football, teams have proven time and time again that very little time is needed to score due to the clock stopping on first downs. Even 40 seconds with no time outs is an eternity. There was obviously plenty of time for that so "running clock" did you no good anyway.
Then, with a full 38 seconds on the clock and the ball at the 35 yard line, they take a knee to play for overtime. Why would anyone do that? Why would you forfeit a possession in a tie game? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE ASSHOLE!!! Does anyone think that Auburn wasn't thanking their lucky stars that they didn't have to stop them one more time, with all the craziness that can happen in a final minute? Even if Jax State threw a pick, and Auburn won in regulation, is that somehow worse than losing in OT? Do you get 2 losses in that scenario? Everyone in the stadium, and probably in the country knew that Auburn is winning that game if it goes to OT.
I'll never understand why coaches, when it's time to win a game, will always go the coward's route and in effect reduce their team's chances of winning the game. Like I said before, it's almost like there is some payoff to losing "conservatively" rather than playing aggressively to get the win. It's maddening.
