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re: The Loss to Tech

Posted on 12/5/14 at 1:08 pm to
Posted by Dick Leverage
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Posted on 12/5/14 at 1:08 pm to
I listened to the David Greene show from Shula's last night for a while. Probably the only time that I can recall Greene, who is a very homer media guy, criticize a Richt decision. He even said it wasn't like they had Deion Sanders returning kicks. Greene, himself, said it was a case of a coach playing "not to lose" and was the worst decision of Richts tenure here. He made the point that it was a coaching decision that led to the loss and that no coach ever wants to carry that burden. He said that all the player gaffes had been overcome when Mason conducted a drive for the history books of this rivalry game. At that point, having the lead, it became a coaching decision that led(not caused) to the loss. He talked about how Richt acknowledged as much and was as despondent after a loss that Greene had ever seen him. And he was that way because it was his decision that started that :18 chain of events .

We can debate it all day long but when the actual coach who made the decision along with homer media personalities who go out of their way to never put a negative spin on Richt.....along with 95% of fans say it was a bad call, perhaps the few who debate the other side are just doing so to play devils advocate. Does not change the fact that the overwhelming consensus, which includes the coach, is that the call was wrong.
Posted by FooManChoo
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 12/5/14 at 1:55 pm to
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We can debate it all day long but when the actual coach who made the decision along with homer media personalities who go out of their way to never put a negative spin on Richt.....along with 95% of fans say it was a bad call, perhaps the few who debate the other side are just doing so to play devils advocate. Does not change the fact that the overwhelming consensus, which includes the coach, is that the call was wrong.
Not playing devil's advocate at all. Of course CMR and others feel like that call was the turning point and it lost us the game. I get that and I understand why people think that way. I just don't agree with it.

I'll say it again, regardless of whether or not it was a bad call, all it did was help wipe out the win in regulation. It did not-I repeat again-did not lose us the game. The loss came in OT due to our defense being unable to keep GT out of the end zone as well as the bad throw by Mason to clinch it. If we kick it deep and they get a great return that sets them up for a FG to tie it, we still would have to win the game in OT. We didn't do that.

Even I agree that kicking it deep would have been a better call, but I say that with knowledge of how the game concluded. And I'll say it again: no one would question that call had we stopped GT and won the game in regulation.
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