If you disagree tell me why?
TH you know it will be O shootout at the end.
WV can score fast, your D has starters out and generally cannot stop them, D players are tired, its late. You play too conservative to a team like this at the end and you you LOSE at the end like we did.
Well, all losses are on coaches, at least the good ones will say that, so I am not sure you are doing anything but stating the obvious. But here are my reasons:
1). Sam’s development is nothing short of awesome. I’m not sure if you were in the Buechelle camp at the beginning year, but many were.
2). The offense played awesome.
3). The effort and spirit of the football team is inspired. Yes, our defense is not playing well right now, but they are banged up. That doesn’t totally make up for it, but context matters.
4) Any football game is a collection of plays. In hindsight, it is easy to say he should’ve gone for it, but what would you have said if it had failed like WVU’s had and then WVU won by three at the end? Folks on this board in the past have said in those cases that Herman should not have gone for it and should’ve taken the points. Yes he knew this was an offensive shootout in the first half, but things had slowed in the second half for whatever reason. For whatever reason, his instincts (which I would submit are a bit more honed than yours or mine — although you might be Bill Belicheck for all I know) told him to kick it. He did.
Even the best coaches make mistakes. If you are convinced that he did, maybe think about cuttting him slack given his record this year. Just a thought.
