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College FB Bowl-o-Rama

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by I Should Coco, Dec 19, 2014.

  1. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    And after the crazy lateral play, they run an awful goal-line fade on the two-point conversion. Bad coaching in bad bowl games for the win.
     
  2. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    When it works, the fade looks like a great play. When it doesn't, it looks like a horrible play. The worse call was going for 2. Your team scores three touchdowns in the final three minutes and you don't give them an opportunity to play overtime?
     
  3. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Good point. Central Michigan would have all the momentum in OT.
     
  4. RubberSoul1979

    RubberSoul1979 Active Member

    That's two bonehead coaching moves is as many days.

    San Diego State loses Poinettia Bowl after mismanaging the final drive that ended with a 34-yard missed field goal. Why they didn't center the ball in the middle of the field -- they had a timeout, but threw incomplete on 3rd down -- is beyond me.
     
  5. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Come on, guys. It's a meaningless bowl game on Christmas Eve.

    Roll the dice, have some fun, go for two. If the defense is playing that bad, a two-pointer is a high-percentage play anyway.
     
  6. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    I'm fine with going for two. Not fine with the goal-line fade.
     
  7. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    That was a hell of a fourth quarter by the Chips. They scored five TDs in the quarter to almost pull off the crazy comeback. Had it on in the background, and the only reason CMU had a chance for the wild lateral play was Western Kentucky's punt, with 10 seconds left, barely hopped into the end zone.

    Great finish ... and I like going for 2 and the win, just not the play call. Why not have the QB roll out on a run/pass option? Instead, a fade pattern which had little chance of being caught.
     
  8. mpcincal

    mpcincal Well-Known Member

    I doubt if it would have made any difference. As someone who has followed the team since first setting foot on campus in 1989, I can tell you the one constant for the Aztecs has been a field-goal kicker blowing it in a crucial moment of a big game.
     
  9. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Quarterback bootleg. Receivers drag all the coverage left, quarterback rolls right, tight end blocks and then releases to the right, and there's usually only one bug-eyed defender to beat with the pass or run. Hard as hell to stop from 5 yards in.
     
  10. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Or, the immortal delay draw off the same action. QB boots right as described above, receivers take the coverage left, QB rolls right, looking to throw, then slips the ball to a RB who appears to be blocking; zippo, he's in.

    If things really start dissolving and going to hell, the QB can go ahead and lob it into the left corner of the EZ where all the receivers are and hope someone comes up with it.
     
  11. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    They should have done the Statue of Liberty play.
     
  12. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    Illinois goes down to Louisiana Tech, which probably would have finished in the upper half of either Big 10 division.

    Even as an Iowa fan, I'm not optimistic about the Big 10's chances this bowl season. Only teams I see having a chance at wins are Rutgers, Michigan State, Ohio State and Iowa. And I'm a little biased on that last pick ...
     
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