Post here when coaches do something obviously stupid

[FlyWf]

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.

[lastchance]

It's not about EV.

[vhawk01]

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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.

[dkgojackets]

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.

[z32fanatic]

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.

[Pudge714]

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

[legend42]

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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.

[damaniac]

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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.

[z32fanatic]

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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.

[dkgojackets]

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.