re: Hugh Freeze's 4th down call vs Texas A&M cost him $100k

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He stuck with what they do best.

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yea the typical response here is that the qb doesnt take as many snaps under center so he could fumble the ball but thats not the intelligent way of looking at things. Either way you look at it you always have a chance of messing up the snap, but either way you look at it the chance of messing up one snap on any one play is very low even if you dont practice under center a lot. But you cant stop there, you then have to factor in the probability of getting a good snap plus the probability of converting 1 inch VS the probablity of getting a good snap from shotgun plus the probability of converting the ball now from several yards back (and more time for defense to respond).

Any way you look at it, it was a dumb call.