re: The "Largest blown lead" thread on tRant.

As others have said, I think it was primarily a conditioning and depth issue. Going to the power run game with the lead is a perfectly fine strategy. Hell, its a winning strategy for 99% of the programs out there. You sprinkle in a few play action passes and slowly bleed the clock to death. If the other team cuts into the lead you open up the offense a bit more.

Even Army, the triple option express, brings in the TEs and cheerfully hammers away between the tackles once they got a good lead. Generally speaking they'd whip people's butt by that point in the game doing it as well.

Our problem was that by the mid way point of the 3rd quarter our players looked like it was the end of the 4th quarter. By the 4th quarter they looked like they had just survived a 7 OT game. We didn't collapse so much as completely run out of gas. We won some 4th quarter games but that tended to be against teams almost as badly flawed as us. Thank God for Ole Miss.