This drives me nuts. I watched every second of Texas A&M/Miami game, and by the fourth quarter, it was glaringly obvious: the most successful play was Marcel Reed running the ball.

It is absolute football malpractice not to run on second down there. Even with no timeouts, you can run, spike it with 33 seconds left, and still have your shots. And then it would have been the perfect moment for a trick play like a Philly Special.

It's part of a larger issue where certain coaches are treated like geniuses despite lacking basic situational common sense. Sark had eight downs in back-to-back semifinals to tie Washington and Ohio State and never once called a single good play.

Teams honestly need a "common sense coach" on the headset, someone whose only job is to track game tendencies and remind the "genius" what has actually been working all day. These guys get so lost in their "systems" that they forget the goal is to move the ball, not prove how smart they are. It's not genius; it's stubbornness.

Klein unlike his mentor Snyder has no in-game feel.

It's beyond that, I feel like lots of coaches have no feel for their personnel. Even the Miami OC, it was obvious they were having some success with Fletcher and he wasted many calls in the first half on some very stupid trick plays. I have a friend from the U, and at half time I texted him you guys need to run the ball.

Likewise , Texas A&M coaches should have make sure, specifically for linebackers, that if you going to stack the block, you need gap integrity. That 59 yrd run was caused by a linebacker creating a huge gap. A lesson they should have learned from the Texas game.

The play calls I had issue with was first half we were definitely in 4 down territory ( too close to punt but out of FG range ) Had a nice 1 st down play and 2nd in four

Should have run it 3 times in a row on the assumption we could get 4 yards in 3 tries
Ran on a bubble screen lost yardage 3 and 7 and did not convert opportunity lost

Similar situation 2 nd half
3 rd and five again if you are going for on 4 th then 3rd down is IMO a running play

I hate the bubble screen with a passion. It's not an extension of the run game. If I hear that from an announcer one more time, I am going to throw up.

So, you run on 2nd and don't make it, then have to waste a down spiking, but then you have your shots?

Maybe you are right, and you are looking at only one more play. Or why not do a pass/run option? You had 33 seconds left.

I thought the injury timeout gave us enough time to call 2 plays in the huddle. A run play with Marcel then whatever our pass was going to be. Had plenty of time not like wideouts would be down field. But it's easy to arm chair anything.

ObjectiveUTLAW91 said:

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I hate the bubble screen with a passion. It's not an extension of the run game. If I hear that from an announcer one more time, I am going to throw up.

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I'm with you.

EVERY advantage lies with the defense.

I hate that call.

ObjectiveUTLAW91 said:

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It's beyond that, I feel like lots of coaches have no feel for their personnel. Even the Miami OC, it was obvious they were having some success with Fletcher and he wasted many calls in the first half on some very stupid trick plays. I have a friend from the U, and at half time I texted him you guys need to run the ball.

Likewise , Texas A&M coaches should have make sure, specifically for linebackers, that if you going to stack the block, you need gap integrity. That 59 yrd run was caused by a linebacker creating a huge gap. A lesson they should have learned from the Texas game.

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It's been all season long…we need to tighten up our run fits. But we never really got it done.

How about a good old fashioned bootleg to the wide side of the field and hit one of our tight ends? Or just boot and run it? Klein never should've been allowed to stay after taking his dream job. That's another institutional failure by our leadership within the program.

This is problem I keep pointing out the red zone forces teams into zone defense and Texas watched enough tape to just play zone all the time and not blitzing him and he showed why he isn't good in the red zone he's woefully inaccurate. If he can't figure it out he'll be benched by the start of conference because it's all he's going to see.

No need to blitz when your front 4 gets pressure through anyway (texas, miami)

we just have to get better
O-line, D-line, all groups
coaches too
Think Elko knows it

and FTR, when my OC takes a job at another school, he stops being my OC... period