The entire premise of this is dumb, as it was dumb luck that saved some of these coaches—Diaz, included.
Bielema is in some weird-*** nine-overtime, two-point conversion game—where if Penn State pulls it out with one of several shots to do so, then he's not on the list?
Diaz watches NC State's top receiver not cough up a few balls (to the point people wondered if he was point shaving) or that weird fumble that helmet-less dude recovers doesn't go Miami's way—then anything Diaz did to "rally the troops" is moot, had the Canes lost?
Herby is a likable guy, but there's a lot of fluff and nonsense in the rah-rah stuff like this that he does.
Take a minute to actually use all the characters at your disposal to concoct an articulate thought about *why* you gave Diaz a nod this week—as basing it on the one-point win this week would be the same as a three-point loss last week or two-point loss against Virginia before that.
The coaching effort has more to do with the final minutes of a game and whether it's won or lost.
Bielema and Diaz aren't #1 and #2 on the list if not for some quirky break at game's end—which dismisses the rest of the game up to that point—because had either lost under the same circumstances, in the final minutes, they're "zeroes" and not "heroes" here.