Tx St last possession

[wloopanther]

3 timeouts......1:27 left........tons of momentum.........

Why would you sit on it?????

With a QB like Nealy and an offense we couldnt stop this could be one of the worst coaching moves people will be talking about for a while..

[georgiapantherfan]

I like to think that fate is just on our side.

More times than not you see the team who is playing not to lose, lose. It was definitely a dumb decision. At least they could have run our defense around for a minute before overtime. Just gave us an extra rest and ALL the momentum going in to overtime. Their fans and players were looked defeated before the game was even over.

[Newsbreaker]

I can understand the decision, I just think it was a very bad one. They moved the football at will most of the day (another game where it seemed like we never got a stop except late, and somehow scored more points) and have a long leg in their FG kicker. I guess I understand not wanting to turn the ball over, but we hadn't come close to a pick or fumble all day to that point.

I think we all had to feel pretty good when they made that decision.

[MGLD Panther]

Do you see the reaction of his players when he made the call to let the closk run out? They were pissed. I think by making that choice he told his players that he didn't have confidence in them. What a bone head.

[DMPanther]

It looked like some of the fans were about ready to jump out and strangle that guy as well. I agree - I guess I can understand but it was just not the correct decision....

[Bojingles]

That was the most GUTLESS piece of coaching I have ever seen. Playing NOT to lose. Not in the semis man. He probably lays up when he is playing a Par 3 course.

Farley goes for the touchdown on 4th & goal in Western Kentucky! He understands what is on the line. He doesn't settle.

That is the difference in those two teams. Leadership!

[Pantherpower]

The expression on the college kid's face in the stands said it all. His jaw was dropped in disbelief. Gotta imagine this won't sit well with the players and fans of TX State.

[panther2317]

I couldn't understand it at all. Usually in that situation, you run a fairly conservative play on first down and if you get pretty good positive yards, you call a TO and then you go. I can't understand why they try at least one shot down the field with a 6'7" receiver?

[CF Panther]

While conservative, I don't think that the call was as awful as many first made it out to be. We had the momentum. They turn the ball over (they were "due" for a fumble, as they coughed it up like 30 times during the season) and chances are we score. In a game at home, you play for the tie/overtime. That is conventional wisdom for most football coaches. With Brian missing that one extra point, he probably thought he was giving his team an advantage and curbing momentum. ON THE OTHERHAND, I would have at least let that QB of theirs roll out and tuck it under once or twice and see what happened. If you don't get much, at least you tried and then you take the knee. With 3 TOs, they probably should have tried something. 1:25 and 3 TOs is A LOT of football, especially in college when the clock stops to move the chains/on a first down. Oh well, I guess we can all be happy that they made the decision that they made!

[TravelingPanther]

horrid call.

[panther2317]

If they don't throw the interception...at the very minimum they've got a chance to tie it with a FG and send it to a second OT.

[AmesPanther]

It's a bad call if you loose and genius if you win. Conservative would'nt have given them points and and interception could have costed the game and we all know now that an intercrption is a real possibility. They were at home also. I'd go, but it wasn't a bad call.

[tcondon]

With an athletic quarterback, I'm rolling him out and giving him two simple passing options. If they are open, hit them. If not, let him do something with his legs. Not the correct thing to do by the Texas State coach, IMO.