re: The Loss to Tech

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I respect your opinion. It did not cause us to lose outright. It was, however, the catalyst that led to us losing and no coach wants that burden. You are not saying that call, by itself, lost the game. I can agree with that. It did initiate the series of events that gave them a more advantageous position to do the unlikely though. I believe you understand this and are making the argument that however wrong that particular call was....we were still in position to win.

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Exactly my point. I don't think the call was good or bad by itself prior to it playing itself out. It was the conservative approach that, I believe, was meant to all but guarantee that we don't lose by preventing a TD right before the end of the 4th when we were only up by 3 points. Obviously we know how it turned out so I think everyone would agree that, knowing what we know now, a deep kick would have been the better call, but it's one of those things that the quality of the call is only known after the fact.

I'm merely arguing against those who believe CMR is an "idiot" for making that call, as well as against those who say that the call lost us the game. I believe it was a rational decision that didn't have a desired outcome, and that even though the outcome was undesirable, we still had an opportunity to win but didn't execute.