Nailed it. It has next to nothing to do with "quitting" and everything to do with the (sh*tty) scheme. And as another poster mentioned earlier, this team was particularly bad at stopping a power running game. Many of us were predicting a loss to Pitt for that very reason.Even if the team gave up after FSU, they were still talented enough to beat both UVA and Pitt while on auto-pilot, but did not. Why?
Because golden went back to his dorito shell defense for those two final games. If he would have played the same defense against UVA and Pitt that he did against FSU, Duke and UNC, they would have won.
This begins and ends with poor coaching.
Oh and strongly suggest that everyone watch the few seconds of video recommended in post #15.
Nailed it. It has next to nothing to do with "quitting" and everything to do with the (sh*tty) scheme. And as another poster mentioned earlier, this team was particularly bad at stopping a power running game. Many of us were predicting a loss to Pitt for that very reason.Even if the team gave up after FSU, they were still talented enough to beat both UVA and Pitt while on auto-pilot, but did not. Why?
Because golden went back to his dorito shell defense for those two final games. If he would have played the same defense against UVA and Pitt that he did against FSU, Duke and UNC, they would have won.
This begins and ends with poor coaching.
Oh and strongly suggest that everyone watch the few seconds of video recommended in post #15.
is that a serious question?
this team gives up every year
Nailed it. It has next to nothing to do with "quitting" and everything to do with the (sh*tty) scheme. And as another poster mentioned earlier, this team was particularly bad at stopping a power running game. Many of us were predicting a loss to Pitt for that very reason.Even if the team gave up after FSU, they were still talented enough to beat both UVA and Pitt while on auto-pilot, but did not. Why?
Because golden went back to his dorito shell defense for those two final games. If he would have played the same defense against UVA and Pitt that he did against FSU, Duke and UNC, they would have won.
This begins and ends with poor coaching.
Oh and strongly suggest that everyone watch the few seconds of video recommended in post #15.
What's most interesting here is that good coaches who face power running teams usually try to stack the box to force the other team to have to beat you with their second best pitch. Golden faced three strong power running teams in 2014 (Nebraska, Ga Tech & UVA), in all three games golden's defense played passive and rarely put more than 7 in the box.
It aint ****ing rocket science. Even the novice football fan can see that golden is incompetent at game day coaching.