Dumbest Coaching Call In History Earlier Today? You Tell Me....

Dumbest Coaching Call In History Earlier Today? You Tell Me.... You're head coach Mike London at Virgina, and you're up 24-19, it's 3rd and 15 at the 50 yard line with 45 seconds to play in the game, and your opponent Miami is out of timeouts. Miami has scored 3 touchdowns in a row and your defense is incapable of stopping them right now, but why does this matter because all you have to do is run out the final 00:45 seconds and you win the game. So what do you do? Easy answer, right? Take 2 knees and wait for the student body to storm the field? Hell no (cause taking knees is way too boring), line up in the shot gun and lateral the ball backwards:confused: to your running back who immediately fumbles :eek: the ball with nothing but bright green grass between the ball and a Miami touchdown, but after the scrum clears, somehow you get lucky and your team falls on the ball. At least he had enough sense to line up in the victory formation for the final two snaps (there was a penalty so they had to snap it twice). They should fire Mike London for stupidity regardless of who won the game.

Do you mean 2nd down? If so, I am on board.

Add Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly to the list. Down by 1 point with 37 seconds left on the Tulsa 18 yard line, he has kicker David Ruffer, who has made 19 field goals in a row, and is arguably the best field goal kicker in the country. So what do the Irish do? Run the ball to the middle of the field and center it for a 95% chance of winning the game. Hell no, cause winning by 2 points on a field goal is for sissies, let's throw into coverage in the end zone and let Tulsa intercept it. That'll do it. Man, where does it make sense to do that?

[QUOTE=Climate;31428]Add Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly to the list. Down by 1 point with 37 seconds left on the Tulsa 18 yard line, he has kicker David Ruffer, who has made 19 field goals in a row, and is arguably the best field goal kicker in the country. So what do the Irish do? Run the ball to the middle of the field and center it for a 95% chance of winning the game. Hell no, cause winning by 2 points on a field goal is for sissies, let's throw into coverage in the end zone and let Tulsa intercept it. That'll do it. Man, where does it make sense to do that?[/QUOTE] With his freshman backup QB who was in the game b/c of injury as well. Oooops!

[QUOTE=Climate;31404]You're head coach Mike London at Virgina, and you're up 24-19, it's 3rd and 15 at the 50 yard line with 45 seconds to play in the game, and your opponent Miami is out of timeouts. Miami has scored 3 touchdowns in a row and your defense is incapable of stopping them right now, but why does this matter because all you have to do is run out the final 00:45 seconds and you win the game. So what do you do? Easy answer, right? Take 2 knees and wait for the student body to storm the field? Hell no (cause taking knees is way too boring), line up in the shot gun and lateral the ball backwards:confused: to your running back who immediately fumbles :eek: the ball with nothing but bright green grass between the ball and a Miami touchdown, but after the scrum clears, somehow you get lucky and your team falls on the ball. At least he had enough sense to line up in the victory formation for the final two snaps (there was a penalty so they had to snap it twice). They should fire Mike London for stupidity regardless of who won the game.[/QUOTE] Spend less time on recruiting and more time doing basic game theory analysis. The salaries these coaches make and their inability to use basic strategy around situation/clock management is beyond comprehension...

Every major team (NFL, CFB, NBA, CBB, especially football) needs to pay someone with over 700 on the math SAT's 200k/year to be VP of strategy and to take care of clock management. It's amazing they do not. The only guy I know who does is Mark Cuban who has a guy who runs millions of match up stats for him and game clock management.

[QUOTE=Climate;31428] Hell no, cause winning by 2 points on a field goal is for sissies, let's throw into coverage in the end zone and let Tulsa intercept it. [/QUOTE] It's the Steve Superior School of Head Coaching (see Ky/SCar game a few weeks back...) Hell, Arizona did it yesterday against TB. Granted AZ and SCar would TIE with a FG, while ND would WIN, which makes Kelly's decision even more asinine....

Besides the Mavs, New England has a guy who tells Belichick what the right move (decision) is - based on probability. Someone on this site posted a link to an article on the guy. Not sure if he even had a title, but he's a big part of their staff - especially when it's crunch time at the end of a game.

[QUOTE=bigrobbie;31566]Besides the Mavs, New England has a guy who tells Belichick what the right move (decision) is - based on probability. Someone on this site posted a link to an article on the guy. Not sure if he even had a title, but he's a big part of their staff - especially when it's crunch time at the end of a game.[/QUOTE] Ernie Adams. Dude is a bona fide genius.

Let's not forget the weekly Brad Childress SNAFU. Nearing halftime yesterday he decides to go for 4th and goal from the 1. I'm OK with the decision since there's about 1:30 to go and he has 2 timeouts, so if they fail they can force a punt and still have a shot at a FG before halftime. Nope, this dummy has Favre stand there and run the clock all the way down, then burn his second timeout leaving about 1:15 or so. Then they run the play, fail, and only have the one timeout left so New England takes the knee. Obviously a big part of the decision to go on 4th and goal is that if you fail to get the TD you benefit from the field position. I don't think that has occurred to Childress. Every week this guy fumbles more than Favre.