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I would love to know what Golden was thinking with the game on the line. Let's punt and have our ad stop them??? Grow a sack.
 
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Hated that call. I get that it was still early in the 4th and field position wasn't ideal, but relying on your D at that point was dumb. It was clear if we were going to win the offense was going to have to do it. To make it worse, Duke return the point to like their own 40 or 45 so we only netted about 20 yards of field position anyway.
 
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I agree, I thought that was a terrible decision. The defense hadn't showed all game that they could stop them. The other part of the problem is that we never should been in that position if our quarterback would have put forth some effort to get the first down before jogging out of bounds.
 
I would be tempted to go with the no punt strategy. The only problem with that is he is our best player.
 
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That one blew up in his face. First off, he should've never been in that position if Mo decides he wants it and puts his head down and fights for the friggin yard. That aside, it stunned me that Golden put the game in the hands of the D the way they were playing. He did it earlier in the year and the defense came through. But yesterday? Did that mean he didn't have confidence his offense couldn't get a yard against Duke? Or, did he truely believe that defense had (potentially) two stops in them with 7 minutes or so left in that game? I guess the *******jack media didn't ask him the question, post-game. I didn't see it. Oh, he apparently didn't factor in that the waterbug we couldn't tackle all game would run it back to buy us about a net gain of about ten yards on the punt. Not that it would've mattered with the d's performance which most could see coming because they're cooked. Done. Gonzo. Golf clubs. Outta here.
 
I don't agree with the call, but he did the same thing against Wake and it worked, so I had not doubt he'd do it yesterday (and I knew it would backfire).
 
and lests not forget this is the first time this type of situation has come up this year...i beleive it was the third time..the other two times (maybe wake and NC?) we got lucky that it didn't bite us in the ***.
 
killacane said:
I would be tempted to go with the no punt strategy. The only problem with that is he is our best player.
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Maybe he should put him in on third down as our QB and let him run it. Duke used that strategy yesterday and all the kid did was account for 5 (count 'em, 5) touchdowns.
 
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Terrible decision by Golden. But what i hated the most is Morris running out of bounds when he could've attempted to get a first down. *****!
 
Hurricanemike32 said:
I agree, I thought that was a terrible decision. The defense hadn't showed all game that they could stop them. The other part of the problem is that we never should been in that position if our quarterback would have put forth some effort to get the first down before jogging out of bounds.
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This put the cherry on top for me that SteMo sucks regardless of stats.
 
Notsince1985 said:
I don't agree with the call, but he did the same thing against Wake and it worked, so I had not doubt he'd do it yesterday (and I knew it would backfire).
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Quint's "Ain't you watchin' it, Hooper" quote from Jaws comes to mind here. What a clusterfack. My God. A friggin yard against Duke. Just sad.
 
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Took em two players after the punt to get to where they would've started had they stuffed us on a fourth down attempt. Terrible decision by golden
 
killacane said:
I would love to know what Golden was thinking with the game on the line. Let's punt and have our ad stop them??? Grow a sack.
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I was literally screaming at my TV, "What the **** are you doing, Al?!?!?!?"


It was obvious to everyone who was not molested by their college coach that our D was not going to be able to stop duke's offense in that fourth quarter. I have no idea what the **** coach Golden was thinking, except that maybe his high school caliber offensive coordinator would have called a shotgun, single back set, with motion then ran a slow developing stretch run play to the short side of the field on 4th and one. :drevil:
 
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