Embarrassing...

[Joe]

Then you would be coaching scared, I'm sorry but as a major D-IA school I feel that the Oline SHOULD be able to hold in that situation and don't fault the coaching staff for making that call.

Is the playcalling great? No, not at all, but the execution last night was much worse than the playcalling. Anyone who wants to deny that needs to slip off the green and gold glasses and look at the countless mistakes the players made.

[I Bleed Awesomeness]

you SHOULD coach scared when you're on your own 1/2 yard line.  thats prob the scariest situation for an offense.  the only way to 100% prevent a safety in that situation is to sneak it.  i have very rarely seen any football team anywhere hand the ball off to a rb that deep in their own zone.  u have to give yourself a yard or 2 cushion to THEN be able to hand the ball off.  when have you EVER seen a qb sneak go for negative yards...prob never.  how often do you see rbs get tackled for a loss...very often.  just way too risky of a call.  so yes, i am 100% blaming the coaching staff for making that call.  i guess you and i will just agree to disagree in this situation.   as far as the execution goes, yes it was very poor...but i noticed way too many key situations where questionable play calls were made.  im not normally the type of fan to put the blame on a coaching staff, but the players can only work with what they are given...and they werent given much to work with yesterday.  

[I Bleed Awesomeness]

still wouldve lost by 15 had there not been a safety...so pretty much a moot point anyways.  

[JoeB]

I watched alot of football games over the weekend, and I think its fair to say that we played the poorest out of any of the teams.  That did belong to GT, but in fairness to them, they played a ranked team in a hostile environment.  We played Cincinnati in front of about 500 fans.  Not exactly a hostile environment.  We should have saved our money and just chalked that one a loss back in August.  That way we'd have two weeks before the Pitt game.  

   

[Triple B]

That did belong to GT, but in fairness to them, they played a ranked team in a hostile environment.  We played Cincinnati in front of about 500 fans.  Not exactly a hostile environment.

Depends on what you classify as a hostile environment. To our guys, that environment last night was more hostile than a stadium full of screaming fans ...

[I Bleed Awesomeness]

i agree.  poorest of the week bar none.  i was at the clemson gt game over the weekend, and a hostile environment is def a understatement.  ive never been to a louder stadium.  it was amazing...add in that i got a picture with my arm around herbstreit and it couldnt have gotten much better.