My good friend who is a ND fan and I have been having a debate all day about which coach showed greater ineptitude in coaching and math at the end of a game.
Freeman apparently can’t do arithmetic up to 11, and Mario can’t subtract the play clock from the game clock.
My position is that Mario was the bigger failure because UM had the win and just had to kneel, whereas OSU still had to score and barely scored on that last play.
Of course Tech still had to go 70+ yards even after the fumble in a matter of 26 seconds.
Ultimately they may be tied, not just as bad coaches, but (and I hate to write this because it is mean), as stupid people. I know smart people can make stupid decisions, we all do at some point whether smart or not. But in every profession, there are certain things that should happen with very, very little thought. In my profession this is like not having an illegal confession thrown out because you weren’t familiar with the Miranda case. Meaning, that what Mario and Freeman did respectively is akin to legal malpractice.
I am just not convinced that either of them have an IQ above 100, and possibly significantly lower. Anything under 80 is considered “special needs“ and that maybe what both ND and UM have as head coaches. Which presents its own problem because if special needs is considered a handicap, it will a lot more financially challenging to fire a handicapped coach (which is why you don’t hire a special needs coach in the first place).
So I see only 1 of 2 possibilities for why the mistake was made by UM at the end of the game. 1. Our coach is mentally challenged, 2. Our coach gets so nervous in important moments that his brain turns off. But in either case, it is really bad for UM to have this person leading the football program.
Freeman apparently can’t do arithmetic up to 11, and Mario can’t subtract the play clock from the game clock.
My position is that Mario was the bigger failure because UM had the win and just had to kneel, whereas OSU still had to score and barely scored on that last play.
Of course Tech still had to go 70+ yards even after the fumble in a matter of 26 seconds.
Ultimately they may be tied, not just as bad coaches, but (and I hate to write this because it is mean), as stupid people. I know smart people can make stupid decisions, we all do at some point whether smart or not. But in every profession, there are certain things that should happen with very, very little thought. In my profession this is like not having an illegal confession thrown out because you weren’t familiar with the Miranda case. Meaning, that what Mario and Freeman did respectively is akin to legal malpractice.
I am just not convinced that either of them have an IQ above 100, and possibly significantly lower. Anything under 80 is considered “special needs“ and that maybe what both ND and UM have as head coaches. Which presents its own problem because if special needs is considered a handicap, it will a lot more financially challenging to fire a handicapped coach (which is why you don’t hire a special needs coach in the first place).
So I see only 1 of 2 possibilities for why the mistake was made by UM at the end of the game. 1. Our coach is mentally challenged, 2. Our coach gets so nervous in important moments that his brain turns off. But in either case, it is really bad for UM to have this person leading the football program.
