re: Holy crap Josh Pate is a fragile little pantywaist.

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Did you watch the Washington-Texas game?

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I admittedly didn’t watch the game live, but I did watch the first 3 quarters of that game and the Michigan game and came away very impressed.

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Fair enough

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I understand the 4th quarter wasn’t quite as impressive

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Yeah, that's the part I was referring to.

Washington had the game in hand, they had broken Texas' spirit, and should have, by all rights, coasted to a 20 point win. The fact that they didn't is what concerns me about DeBoer.

About halfway through the 4th quarter, Texas' spirit was clearly broken, and all Washington had to do was run out the clock. Instead, they started calling even more aggressive, some along the lines of trick plays, which only served to remotivate Texas- who didn't want to get embarrassed by UW showboating on them.

Then the playcalling went completely nuts. Drove near the redzone, ran a couple plays to start Texas using TO's, but then on 3rd and long they decided to pass. Incomplete, so no clock OR timeout burning, on a hard down and distance.
Later, when they should be running, they were calling passes- incomplete. When they should be kneeling, they were calling runs- little toss pitches that could be fumbled (see: LSU/Fla State 2022), and DID result in an injury to the (already injured, so it wasn't a total shocker) RB... which also stopped the clock without Texas needing a TO. And that was 3rd and long, he wouldn't have run for the 1st anyway.

It was just a clinic on "how to incorrectly call plays at the end of a game", and it almost bit them in the arse. The Texas WR WAS open in the endzone, if Ewers threw a damn frozen rope instead of a jump ball Texas wins.

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I’ve also seen Kiffin make some poor decisions late in games, and would not be upset if he was our new coach

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Yeah, and I've been a Saints fan and watched as Sean Payton occasionally got too smart for his own good, and snatched defeat when he simply could have knelt for the game winner. It's actually the first thing I thought of.

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Compared to Saban, no one measures up

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Overall program building, that's true.

Last 2-3 minutes of a game you're up 2 scores, AND YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TRYING TO GET TO THE NEXT GAME, most guys have it pretty much down pat. You run and force TO's to be called, and when they run out of those, you kneel and move on. You take the least risky play possible. That's why everyone knows what Victory Formation is, because it's the obvious call.