I agree, the ref should have called targeting when Marv took the shot to the head.
…but he didn’t, so Ohio State lost.
Hopefully during this playoff run, they leave no doubt and don’t allow it to come down to the luck of (or lack thereof) Fielding hitting the game winner.
Am I doing this right?
It's more like I threw one pitch, right down the middle and the ump called it ball 4, guy walks and we lose.
Don't do the "yeah but you should have never been in that spot" stuff because those were previous events.
On that one event, skill + luck = bad outcome even though your skill was good (what you control).
So obviously in a game that has constraints you can manage to a degree, you don't want to manage in the direction of letting a lesser skilled opponent get more shots at random variance events at your expense.
Back to football, think of June Jones at Hawaii or Mike Leach and those air raid kind of teams. They were built to run as many plays as possible and get random variance to work
for them because they knew they were the lesser skilled team.
It's why you never see teams run a hurry up with a lead or why, in the case of those extreme kind of system teams, they are screwed and have to keep doing it even with a lead and can't seem to ever hold those leads.
The best possible outcome for a more skilled team like OSU is a long time consuming drive that ends in a TD. You do that on 5 of your 10 possessions and in the process only let the opponent end up with ~8 possessions and you can see how the boa constrictor chokes out the lesser skilled team and why, back to the point of this conversation, you don't speed up as a general rule. You only do it in situational applications.
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