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If 3:1 isn't good enough, you can make that first number whatever you like and I'll still spend your 1 tomorrow.

Also, if a down by 14 coach ever went for 2 on the first touchdown and end up losing he'd be getting burned in effigy on Monday. Punt on 4th and 2 from the 48 and nobody even bothers to complain.

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It's not about EV.

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It's not about EV.

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Thats obvious in the "go for 2 when down 14" situation. But what about the "go for 1 when down 9" situation? That one seems like it wouldn't be "ZOMG FIRE HIM IMMEDIATELY" when it doesn't work. It really just seems like the coaches just never even considered it.

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I can post in this thread every week Chan Gailey still has a job.

Down by two, about a minute left. Outer edge of field goal range. GT has three timeouts left, but Chan Gailey decides to call one right after the third down play so that when they miss the FG they don't have a chance to get the ball back.

[censored] GAILEY. YSSCKYIAGF.

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I'm bumping this not because Les Miles did something stupid, but because he made the correct choice to go for it on 4th and 1 at the Florida's 4, instead of taking the easy 3 points like most gutless coaches would've done.

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Z32,
You could also post about Urban Meyer letting 30 seconds run off before calling a TO.

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In the NFL, most if not all teams use a variation of the "Vermeil chart" that him and another guy developed when Vermeil was a young assistant at UCLA in the early '70s...

I think it was predicated on the assumption that they would normally outclass the opponent in talent, and overtime would be more favorable for them

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I don't think they were considering overtime as a factor in 1970.

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Z32,
You could also post about Urban Meyer letting 30 seconds run off before calling a TO.

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Seconded. He's as good a coach as there is in college right now, but his time management at the end was borderline criminal. Letting the clock run when LSU had the ball (and then calling a TO after 20 seconds or so)...THEN letting 15 seconds run off when they had the ball after the first play. That was atrocious. I know they have a lot of stuff going on...but geez, you cost your team 30 (or more) seconds, easily. That's a much better chance of winning.

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Z32,
You could also post about Urban Meyer letting 30 seconds run off before calling a TO.

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Yes, but I hate UF so I hope they don't learn from that mistake.

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Twenty seconds left in the half. Tech runs the ball on third down from about their own forty for no yards. Gailey CALLS TIMEOUT. And then punts.

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down by 1 against cal at home at end of 3rd quarter. 4th and 1 on cal's 37. call a timeout, then come out and try to draw cal offsides, take delay of game penalty. then punt it into the endzone for a [censored] touchback. asfdpihjsfdajiodfsajifdsaijidfsaij fu karl.

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Ron Zook not sticking with one quarterback.

The LSU coach almost running out of time at the end of the game when Flynn threw the miracle pass to beat Auburn 15 minutes ago.

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You seriously don't know his name?

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Les Miles? He also kicked a PAT when up by 5 instead of OBV going for 2 in case Auburn had some miracle kick return - this was pretty dumb.

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Norv Turner against the Chiefs this season. 1st and goal from the 5, throws four straight times instead of giving it to the best RB in the league who broke the rushing TD record the previous season. Not to mention that Rivers already had 3 picks that game. Chargers lost and dropped to 1-3.

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Sean Payton just punted from the Falcons 34 yard line.

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Cam Cameron showed up to the stadium today.

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Norv Turner against the Chiefs this season. 1st and goal from the 5, throws four straight times instead of giving it to the best RB in the league who broke the rushing TD record the previous season. Not to mention that Rivers already had 3 picks that game. Chargers lost and dropped to 1-3.

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your SN makes this extra funny.

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The LSU coach almost running out of time at the end of the game when Flynn threw the miracle pass to beat Auburn 15 minutes ago.

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Gotta love how ESPN creates reality. This didn't happen.

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The LSU coach almost running out of time at the end of the game when Flynn threw the miracle pass to beat Auburn 15 minutes ago.

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Gotta love how ESPN creates reality. This didn't happen.

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QFT. Honestly, they overdramatized this SOOOOOOOOOO badly. There was like 3 seconds left on the clock as he fell down into the endzone when he caught it. Easily enough time if it was incomplete to kick a FG.

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By far the dumbest thing Les Miles did was not go for two following the td, the playcall was fine, even if Les Miles didn't use the same game theory reasoning we can after the fact to justify it.

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Asked what he'll do with Hester, Lions coach Rod Marinelli said: ''I thought if we went out and worked really hard trying to kick the ball into Lake Michigan and make sure it floats to the bottom.''

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Lousiville has 4th and 2 on their own 20 with 1:53 left in the half and the clock running. Pitt lets the clock run down to 1:30, then calls their 2nd timeout.

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Now with 3rd and 18 on their own 40 and about 45 seconds left, they let the clock run down to 25 and then call timeout with about 12 seconds left on the playclock. Wannstedt going ballistic throwing stuff in the coaches' booth. Pitt comes back out and throws an 8 yard out pass to the sideline, then punts.

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Now with 3rd and 18 on their own 40 and about 45 seconds left, they let the clock run down to 25 and then call timeout with about 12 seconds left on the playclock. Wannstedt going ballistic throwing stuff in the coaches' booth. Pitt comes back out and throws an 8 yard out pass to the sideline, then punts.

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Wanny deserves his own thread for stupidity on his coaching staff