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East Tennessee Cowboy said:
right. out of 138? teams, I feel like maybe 5 coaches would have done exactly what we did. try for the touchdown. there's a greater probability that you miss the field goal than you fumbling at the 1. Am I taking crazy pills or do some of these posters have the same mental capacity as jay?
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I don't know the number of coaches but to me it was a sign of weakness and uncertainty. And I am embarrassed for Harris and Holman. And honestly, I am tired of UW's baseball scores. Get some points on the board.

I heard something last week that sticks with me. No one expects Wyoming (or any Group team) to challenge for a national title. The best we can hope for from here onward is to be...relevant. Just be relevant and try to put a decent, disciplined squad on the field.

I actually think that is exactly what Bohl did. He brought back relevancy if not superiority or dominance. Being afraid to run the ball from the 1 yard line in OT is submission to the fact...UW is inferior and largely irrelevant.
 
Wyolie Coyote said:
QB sneak was the right call. If you don't get it, kick the field goal by all means. But we had just run down their throat and they were on their heels. Take at least one shot with the sneak.
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An earlier sneak was stuffed for no gain at all. You want to at least get the ball centered as kicking a field goal from either hash on 4th down means a greater angle for the kick as you get closer. In any case, it was nice to win one even if it increases the chances we are stuck with Sawvel for an another season.
 
doreno5 said:
An earlier sneak was stuffed for no gain at all. You want to at least get the ball centered as kicking a field goal from either hash on 4th down means a greater angle for the kick as you get closer. In any case, it was nice to win one even if it increases the chances we are stuck with Sawvel for an another season.
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Except it was 2nd down when we centered it. There was another down to center it after that.

It was clear sawvel had no faith in the offense to get a td. He used 2nd down to center and 3rd down to kick it in case there was a bad snap to still have 4th down to kick it.

I would have done a handoff to holman going to the left side of the line on 2nd down. If he scores game is over. If he doesn't it is probably pretty well centered then and you still kick it on 3rd in case of a bad snap where then you still have 4th down.

No complaints from me on the win, I have just never seen a coach prefer his chances on a kick over going for a td as usually going for a td is a "safer" option. It told me sawvel has zero faith in this offense or their ability to score as he decided his best chance to score was to kick once we had 2nd and 1 from the 1
 
WyomingAgJ said:
Except it was 2nd down when we centered it. There was another down to center it after that.

It was clear sawvel had no faith in the offense to get a td. He used 2nd down to center and 3rd down to kick it in case there was a bad snap to still have 4th down to kick it.

I would have done a handoff to holman going to the left side of the line on 2nd down. If he scores game is over. If he doesn't it is probably pretty well centered then and you still kick it on 3rd in case of a bad snap where then you still have 4th down.

No complaints from me on the win, I have just never seen a coach prefer his chances on a kick over going for a td as usually going for a td is a "safer" option. It told me sawvel has zero faith in this offense or their ability to score as he decided his best chance to score was to kick once we had 2nd and 1 from the 1
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And expect (i.e. demand) that your kicker can kick from either hash mark...like every other team in the FBS.
 
WyomingAgJ said:
Except it was 2nd down when we centered it. There was another down to center it after that.

It was clear sawvel had no faith in the offense to get a td. He used 2nd down to center and 3rd down to kick it in case there was a bad snap to still have 4th down to kick it.

I would have done a handoff to holman going to the left side of the line on 2nd down. If he scores game is over. If he doesn't it is probably pretty well centered then and you still kick it on 3rd in case of a bad snap where then you still have 4th down.

No complaints from me on the win, I have just never seen a coach prefer his chances on a kick over going for a td as usually going for a td is a "safer" option. It told me sawvel has zero faith in this offense or their ability to score as he decided his best chance to score was to kick once we had 2nd and 1 from the 1
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You guys are acting like we are an average team with an average offense. We are a bad team with a historically anemic offense. I'm not sure why any of you have confidence in our offense to get into the endzone without fucking something up.

In reality, Sawvel's decision speaks to just how bad our offense is. 1st and goal at the 2-yard line and we cannot even trust our offense to punch it in. I mean, we were in that exact scenario earlier in the game and came away empty handed while turning the ball over on downs. Not even the head coach, who is fighting for his job, trusts our offense.
 
Bryoming said:
And a fumble takes you to 2OT. Hughes has fumbled 3 times. Hollman 2 times. Harris 1 time. How about an interception because our play calling is ass? Hughes is tied for 2nd nationally with 7 of those.

The decision to center the ball and take the win isn't a sexy one, but it was the right call.
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Why even bother to get any yards then. Why not kick the fg on the very first play of OT? By this logic sawvel did the wrong thing by trying to score a TD at all
 
TheRealUW said:
You guys are acting like we are an average team with an average offense. We are a bad team with a historically anemic offense. I'm not sure why any of you have confidence in our offense to get into the endzone without fucking something up.

In reality, Sawvel's decision speaks to just how bad our offense is. 1st and goal at the 2-yard line and we cannot even trust our offense to punch it in. I mean, we were in that exact scenario earlier in the game and came away empty handed while turning the ball over on downs. Not even the head coach, who is fighting for his job, trusts our offense.
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the offense is horrid but his decision to do that shows just how bad he is too
 
East Tennessee Cowboy said:
I said the exact same thing a few posts earlier. exactly
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The answer to this is pretty obvious. If you kick a field goal on the first play of OT, it is going to be roughly a 42-43 yard field goal. Obviously, for every yard you gain, the FG attempt becomes shorter. There is a pretty linear improvement in successful FG rate as you get closer and closer to the end zone.

That's why you try to gain yards.
 
TheRealUW said:
The answer to this is pretty obvious. If you kick a field goal on the first play of OT, it is going to be roughly a 42-43 yard field goal. Obviously, for every yard you gain, the FG attempt becomes shorter. There is a pretty linear improvement in successful FG rate as you get closer and closer to the end zone.

That's why you try to gain yards.
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no shit. and when you get to the 1 you try and score a touchdown. you don't play it safe to line up for a field goal. let your nuts hang (talking to jay) and miss me with the "well we didn't score at the 1 earlier" so what? RB dives, screens, etc don't work 100% of the time, do you stop calling those too?
 
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