Disagree with TB. In this case sending it in to OT gives MU a case of the nerves as they remember WVU game. All the MU fans around me were having fits saying things like, "Oh No, It's WVU all over again." The team couldn't escape having the same feeling. Statistics don't always capture the essence of a particular situation or moment in time.
iPhone post from Huntington.
Short term memory, last year at this time you were standing on the mountain top screaming praise when we did the same thing at North Texas. If you were in favor of it then (when it worked) you have no reason to not favor it now. Coach has handled those situations like that from day 1, he believes in his players and they love that and feed off of that. Not one player was against that decision last night, they wanted the game in their hands and I applaud them for that.
First, I don't recall being one of the most vocal on this subject. I did chime in that I thought it was a gutsy decision and the right one at the time. It was in the second OT and had an entirely different feel. In that game, I was not present in the stadium, but I was listening to the game on the radio and watching a rather terrible web cast. It was raining, as I recall, and players were having trouble tackling and were slipping around on the turf. Yesterday, I was in the stadium, I felt the emotion, and I had a sense of the change in the "BIG MO" -- which despite the inability of our local statistician* to quantify is a big factor in many games. I did say in another part of the post that you quote that I wasn't second guessing the coach and implied that I thought a good argument could be made for going to two as we did. All I'm saying was that at the time I had a "gut feeling" that the better option would have been to kick the extra point. If the two-point conversion attempt had been successful, I would have credited Frank with a great decision, just as I did last year. Last year I don't really think I thought it was a good decision until it was successful, then I praised Frank for it. I remember jumping from my chair, high-fiving my wife, giving her a kiss, and exclaiming, "Frank knows Football!" I probably would have done something similar if the two-point conversion had been successful. I don't see any contradiction in any of this. I think you're digging to create a controversy here, my man.
*A member in good standing, I would assume, of the Carnap School of Logical Positivism.
Last Edited: 9/27/2010 12:41:53 AM by OhioCatFan