The Tale of Dr Jekyll and Coach Ferentz

[dmShortSaledude]

Ferentz didn't use his timeouts at the end of the Iowa/Ohio State and it cost him a shot at a B10 title. But hey, it's better to be agonizingly conservative and lose and be aggressive and win, because it makes you feel better when you can say that you don't lose games by very much.

It works both ways...and in both cases it can blow up in the face of the coach making the decision. Put me in the camp that shows faith in your players to make a play.

If timeouts were not meant to be used, we wouldn't have them... If wish we would use them.

I missed the end of the MSU vs Butthead Beilema. What misques were there with the timeouts??

 

[Cover3]

If timeouts were not meant to be used, we wouldn't have them... If wish we would use them.

I missed the end of the MSU vs Butthead Beilema. What misques were there with the timeouts??

Tie game. MSU had 2nd & 21 around its own 25 or 30. They pick up 13 yards and Bielema burns a TO with :30 remaining. MSU picks up a first down near midfield and decides they don't want to play for OT anymore. To gloss over the best part...MSU 37, WISC 31.

 

[LemonWedge]

How many of you have changed the way you tie your shoes? How many have changed fork hands? How about change which pocket you put your keys in?

KF has been doing it one way for 13 years, and actually gets some credit for making strategic changes, but when crunch time comes, he is who he is, does what he does, good and bad. Just like you. Football ain't NCAA on PS3. When pressured you fall back to who you are. From what I've seen of people most fall a lot further back than Ferrentz does.

We were laughing about it in the stands. Get the ball back, try a QB sneak and if it gets 15 yds., go for it. It was a nice surprise, but I'm not counting on KF to change any more easily than I could, or you either, for that matter.

We are the Hawkeye family, and Uncle Kirk likes his snacks to be plain white bread, with a little water on the side for dippin'. Whattayagonnado?

 

[knighthawk13]

Ferentz is on pace to go into the college football hall of fame as the all-time leader in timeouts remaining at the end of the game. We play good teams where our O needs to score points and we milk to clock or sit on the ball to avoid "mistakes" to end the half.

Today, Ferentz decides to pull out his crazy guy attitude and punch IU in the McNutts by using not one, but two timeouts to stop the clock without the ball. I just about fell out of my chair when he did it. Of course, its the right call, but its the right call in every game not just against an absolutely gawd awful team like IU.

His madness continues after we receive the punt. We are short of a 1st down, clock ticking away and he finally calls for the TO after 10 or so seconds run off the clock. Dial up McNutt he says to himself. Why not, right? Again, its the right call in every situation but it never happens against teams that 7 points mean the difference between winning and losing.....

So I ask you this. Why today and never against good teams?

They used that timeout because K Davis wasn't lined up correctly. Not sure if burning a TO is worth 5 yards, but that's why they did it. I do concur with your frustrations, however.

 

[kicker22]

To be absolutely honest, I have no complaint about the way Wiscy used their TO's trying to win on the road. Lets also be honest, it's not like the MSU used the TO's to get into comfortable field goal range, they scored on a hail mary in which a WR mistimed a jump, the ball was swatted or hits a helmet, and is caught on the goal line and the WR does an outstanding job of fighting to get the ball across the goal line. I don't blame the Badgers one bit for trying to get the ball back and make a play to win the game, because quite honestly had it worked out it could just as easily been wisconsin coming out on the winning end of a hail mary.