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Should have Let Them Score at End

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CleveBucks said:
If the "let them score on purpose" strategy is such a great idea, why would Texas choose to score in the first place?

Wouldn't they just take it down to the 1 foot line (presumably uncontested), take a knee, take two more knees on the one (again, presumably uncontested), then go for it on 4th down?
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Something about 20-year old kids and endzone celebrations. Why do DBs intercept long passes on 4th down when simply batting down the ball will give your team better field position? Why did Leon Lett try to recover the blocked punt against Miami so many Thanksgivings ago? Why do teams sometimes let precious seconds run off the clock before calling timeouts?

Football is a fast-paced game.
 
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CleveBucks said:
If the "let them score on purpose" strategy is such a great idea, why would Texas choose to score in the first place?

Wouldn't they just take it down to the 1 foot line (presumably uncontested), take a knee, take two more knees on the one (again, presumably uncontested), then go for it on 4th down?
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I'm glad to see others supporting what I said in the first place...it just doesn't jive in my book.

Football is different from any other sport and allowing a team to have a touchdown is just downright wrong and demoralizing IMO. Allowing a TD in football is different than allowing a team a 2 in basketball or any other comparison you can make. Although there is no factual evidence to back that up, most people I think would agree with that.

I know we are trying to speculate on alternative approaches to how the end of the game could have been handled, the fact is we gave ourselves plenty of chances to get it done and we didn't. We had more opportunities to put up 7 and only got 3 than I can remember. I still believe we made the right decision letting our D play them hard to the last second of the game
 
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Golferdow01 said:
I'm glad to see others supporting what I said in the first place...it just doesn't jive in my book.

Football is different from any other sport and allowing a team to have a touchdown is just downright wrong and demoralizing IMO. Allowing a TD in football is different than allowing a team a 2 in basketball or any other comparison you can make. Although there is no factual evidence to back that up, most people I think would agree with that.

I know we are trying to speculate on alternative approaches to how the end of the game could have been handled, the fact is we gave ourselves plenty of chances to get it done and we didn't. We had more opportunities to put up 7 and only got 3 than I can remember. I still believe we made the right decision letting our D play them hard to the last second of the game
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i totally agree... mostly because points are so much harder to come by... i mean, in basketball, you probably have like 50 opportunities to put points on the board per game... in football, you rarely even get ten good scoring chances... unlike the basket, the endzone is something that must be guarded with much more intensity and ferocity than in hoops...

the closest thing that i think could even compare in other sports would be the intentional walk, which would most certainly NOT be called when the bases are loaded... now, you might load up the bases intentionally, and that might lead to points, but you did not implicitly allow the other team to score...

sorry... i can see the logic that you guys are using to come to your rationalization, but i would NEVER, EVER allow the other team to score if i was the coach... fuck that. if those bastards want a TD, they have to fucking EARN it... if that means i'm stuck on the one yard line, with 5 seconds left and no time outs, so be it... those fuckers ain't gonna get shit for free from me...
 
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I want to thank everyone for what I feel was a very intelligent and compelling discussion. There are few fan communities where such intelligent and respectful debate is possible, and I am very thankful to be allowed to participate despite being a fan of another school.

A lot of the other boards I frequent (including the SC board) are not always capable of having such discourse without morons flaming and dragging the discussion down into a pissing match. Don't get me wrong, I do indulge in some mudfights from time to time, but it is nice to have threads like these as well.

So Fight On and Stay Classy, San Diego.
 
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methomps said:
I want to thank everyone for what I feel was a very intelligent and compelling discussion. There are few fan communities where such intelligent and respectful debate is possible, and I am very thankful to be allowed to participate despite being a fan of another school.

A lot of the other boards I frequent (including the SC board) are not always capable of having such discourse without morons flaming and dragging the discussion down into a pissing match. Don't get me wrong, I do indulge in some mudfights from time to time, but it is nice to have threads like these as well.

So Fight On and Stay Classy, San Diego.
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Omigawd! Methomps is a USC fan?! I totally change my opinion about allowing a late TD on purpose. :wink2:
 
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methomps said:
I want to thank everyone for what I feel was a very intelligent and compelling discussion. There are few fan communities where such intelligent and respectful debate is possible, and I am very thankful to be allowed to participate despite being a fan of another school.

A lot of the other boards I frequent (including the SC board) are not always capable of having such discourse without morons flaming and dragging the discussion down into a pissing match. Don't get me wrong, I do indulge in some mudfights from time to time, but it is nice to have threads like these as well.

So Fight On and Stay Classy, San Diego.
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I agree methomps. The fact we can agree to disagree and tear each other apart along with everyone else is really cool...something you don't see many places. Disagreements and debates are going to occur and as long as we all fight rationally, it's all good.
 
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To let them score and tie the game w/ a TD/2pt conversion was definitely my thought from the stands. One of the friends I was sitting with is actually a football coach, and scoffed at the idea, but I thought it would put us in the best position to win that game. I know the playcalling was questionable at times, but IMO a good return was in the works, giving us fieldposition around the 40. Then, the TD is the hard part. For the two point conversion, I was defintely feeling an option or ginn-screen. Oh well, lets make it to pasadena and forget about this game until we get a chance at revenge (hopefully AT pasadena :wink: ) :osu:
 
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There is probably an unwritten rule somewhere in the lore of football etiquette that you never lay down and just let a team score a touchdown. I've never seen it happen, even in pee-wee football.

Bottom line, I read most of the posts in this thread and it has been a great debate. Straight up, "letting them score the TD" was the way I was leaning watching the game, although I knew it would never happen.
 
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