Cougar fans should be outraged. Bill Doba and his staff are happy they are in the quiet homey little area called the Pauolse, because their coaching on Saturday was abominable. The Cougars had the ball with 5:35 left and lead by 10. They are on the Cal 38 yard line and it is 4th and 2. Doba fakes a punt. You can’t do that. It is a terrible terrible decision. Doba lost his football team the game. There is 5:30 left – you lead by 10 – you punt and make Cal who has not scored an offensive touchdown since the 1st quarter drive 80 yards to get within 3. There is no scenario – no explanation of why you would possibly go for it. That is terrible. That is inexcusable. That cost your football team the game. Moreover, we won’t even get into how he went for with a unimaginative QB sneak out of a punt formation on 4th and 2 with a linebacker. That is idiotic.
This on is on Doba – The Cougs are 0-4 in the Pac-10. They have lost three double digit leads in the 4th quarter of games. They are just 3-6 in Pac-10 games decided by 7 or less over the last two years.
Bill Doba’s game management needs to be examined and examined closely.
Seed Newsvine
5 comments:
Sonics EJ -- this is why I blew the comment section out. Can we try to keep on topic and I will try to keep more topics avaliable
I don't necessarily think the fake punt was a bad call, I just think it was bad execution. Instead of running a fake punt, just run a damn hitch route. Normally I would say give it to Harrison but he wasn't in top form on Saturday and the Cougars have a tendency to blow it on short runs, but that's going back to the Mike Price era. Anyway, I'm not ready to run Doba out of town, but he's hanging on a thin thread.
When you speak of Doba's game management skills, please don't forget the prior week against UCLA when he ran on every first possession in the fourth quarter. I was sick to my stomach hearing the commentators giving praise to UCLA's defense for stepping up. The fake punt is Doba's response to the "too predicable" criticism received after the UCLA game. I'm sure the AD knew that there would be some growing pains with Doba. Mike Stoops has also blown two games for his Cats. One game blown was against WSU last year where all he had to do was take the knee three times (thanks Mike). I say give Doba more time as he's getting A's in many other areas.
--JohnN
Bledsoe Coug'd it last Sunday too!!!
LOL!!!!
The Cougs would have lost no matter where the ball was, the Bears were explosive in the 4th quarter.
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