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Reasons last series rest on the ball was correct.

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1. Hind sight is 20/20 it worked.
2. Freshman Qb. No 2 min drill. Lots of risks.
3. Borregales vs. Clemson kicker is night and day.
4. Clemson D line was gassed.
5. OT. has no clock. Can run at will. No way were we making it down the field without running. Wasn’t doable with the little time left.

Good call Mario.
 
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Should have tried something. Even if it was conservative in hopes of popping one. Or a shot at Colby who is too big and physical for their CBs to try and get a little bit for a long field goal try.

It's really that we didn't try that irks me. The one time Mario knows how to run out 2 minutes of a game. No hustle, no effort to run plays. That's the issue with me.

But we won and I'm happy
 
mcnaire2004 said:
Should have tried something. Even if it was conservative in hopes of popping one. Or a shot at Colby who is too big and physical for their CBs to try and get a little bit for a long field goal try.

It's really that we didn't try that irks me. The one time Mario knows how to run out 2 minutes of a game. No hustle, no effort to run plays. That's the issue with me.

But we won and I'm happy
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the run play they ran was the same one that Parrish popped off late in the first half of one of the games earlier in the year to set up a last second drive. Mario said in the presser that it was conservative but if the run play had gotten it near the 50 they would have pushed
 
mcnaire2004 said:
Should have tried something. Even if it was conservative in hopes of popping one. Or a shot at Colby who is too big and physical for their CBs to try and get a little bit for a long field goal try.

It's really that we didn't try that irks me. The one time Mario knows how to run out 2 minutes of a game. No hustle, no effort to run plays. That's the issue with me.

But we won and I'm happy
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With the luck this team has, there is no safe play.
 
PennsylvaniaCane said:
With the luck this team has, there is no safe play.
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Bird4um said:
1. Hind sight is 20/20 it worked.
2. Freshman Qb. No 2 min drill. Lots of risks.
3. Borregales vs. Clemson kicker is night and day.
4. Clemson D line was gassed.
5. OT. has no clock. Can run at will. No way were we making it down the field without running. Wasn’t doable with the little time left.

Good call Mario.
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- Mario made command decison to entrust offensive command decison to OC
- Dawson made command decison to take game into OT
-- Risk of on brand Miami catastrophic failure with 40 secs and needing about 40-ish yards
-- Young QB facing potential of rabid jailbreak blitz D
-- Strip sack = disaster
- Guidry felt his unit could give Dawson's unit a puncher's chance for FG/TD victory

I commend the on-field coaches for their command decisions.

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”​

― Theodore Roosevelt
 
Trav said:
I disagree. In that situation you have to try to get in to field goal range. Even if you want to play call safe with short passes and screens you don't just run the clock out.
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Or take a shot downfield with about 10 seconds left. If it is complete you call the time out and try the field goal. Even if intercepted, Clemson is too far away to do anything (**** you Georgia Tech for making me question this last statement).
 
Trav said:
I disagree. In that situation you have to try to get in to field goal range. Even if you want to play call safe with short passes and screens you don't just run the clock out.
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Freshman QB in first start against a top 10 defense with very good corners and DL. No way do I risk a strip sack or a pick. Not to mention how often has EW repped the 2 min offense with the 1st team if at all? While you could tell the game was slowing down for him I’m not going to put it on his shoulders to play 2000 Dorsey against FSU.
 
Bird4um said:
1. Hind sight is 20/20 it worked.
2. Freshman Qb. No 2 min drill. Lots of risks.
3. Borregales vs. Clemson kicker is night and day.
4. Clemson D line was gassed.
5. OT. has no clock. Can run at will. No way were we making it down the field without running. Wasn’t doable with the little time left.

Good call Mario.
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6. Miami was the better team.

Better to put us in a controlled overtime scenario where the better team is likely to win vs putting us in a situation where any fluke thing can happen in the last minute. If we would have tried to get to field goal position and we go 3-and-out, then Clemson still had enough time to go down and kick a field goal for the fluke win. I said during the game that the coaches made the right decision while y'all were blasting Cristobal, and it turned out the right way. And believe me I'm no slurper, but it was the right decision in the moment and it was the right decision in hindsight.
 
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mcnaire2004 said:
Should have tried something. Even if it was conservative in hopes of popping one. Or a shot at Colby who is too big and physical for their CBs to try and get a little bit for a long field goal try.

It's really that we didn't try that irks me. The one time Mario knows how to run out 2 minutes of a game. No hustle, no effort to run plays. That's the issue with me.

But we won and I'm happy
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If Van Dyke is healthy and playing, Miami doesn't sit on that ball. That was 100% due to a true freshman quarterback making his first start, with 15 career reps under his belt.

We literally just saw Georgia Tech go 74 yards on two completions—with no timeouts—in 25-seconds the last time Miami was on this field.

Talk about damned if you do as a coach and damned if you don't.

Go back to the aTm game after that terrible start; Miami trailing 17-14 with :53 left in the half—got super-aggressive and drove 75 yards on six plays for a touchdown to take the halftime lead—they didn't sit on the ball there.

Dawson has proven he's aggressive; the 3rd-and-8 hook-up with TVD and George to help close-out the Aggies... they just didn't want to do anything foolish with a true freshman quarterback when overtime was guaranteed at that point.
 
We had over a minute to at least get 20 yards to get in Borregales range. No sense of urgency at all. And left a time out on the table. If you were just thinking getting to OT, kneel the **** ball, Could have been another disaster with a fluke scoop and score on a fumble or the getting the ball back with time to score.

Bad game management again but this time it worked for us instead of against. Happy with win but **** Mario’s game management is terrible. No way to sugar coat it.
 
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