Coaches can call for one challenge. Cal did it in the 1st quarter. Either way, they still didn't cover him on that play.
Who cares? Charlie Strong sucks. The Horns never deserved to win this game. This coaching staff has to go. I like Gilbert, but everyone else can leave. None of them deserve to be part of this program any longer. It's a ****ing embarrassment now three years in a row. Charlie has no ******* excuses left.
Is there anywhere in the rule book that says a fumbled ball needs to be immediately recovered? Isn't the ball still live? It was dropped before he reached the goal line, then rolled into the end zone, and our guy wound up with the ball. How is that not a fumble recovery in the end zone? The bad call notwithstanding, Cal in no way, shape, or form, should hang with us. This game was lost on the secondary. That is some of the worst defended secondary I have ever seen. Just unbelievable how they are able to thred our defense like that. And the thing is, this isn't something new that the defense hasn't seen before. Very disappointed in Strong's defense so far. They ought to be looking for some answers during the bye week.
How many more years is it going to take to get this program back to what it once was? Another 5? more?
i'm not gonna be mad that a bad call didn't bail us out, but that certainly seemed fast enough to be an immediate recovery. i absolutely can't believe i saw two people drop the ball before the end zone this week. how can this happen. how have coaches not drilled this in? players would be getting suspended for halves or whole games if they did this on my team. run it into the end zone. wait .2 seconds to celebrate. as for UT, while the decision to punt was bad (although i didn't really think of it as bad until after we punted and thought about it) the fact that we took one and a half minutes to run 3 plays when you should be hurrying and then took until 8 seconds on the play clock to punt was even worse. why are we running the clock for cal? you go quick at the beginning of the drive in case you get stopped. then you can slow down if you get a couple of first downs and time becomes irrelevant. and don't forget the end of the first half where the refs screwed up the clock and basically gave us a free timeout and then we weren't ready when the clock started, which not only is an obvious mistake if you know how the clock works, but even if you don't it's even more obvious considering THE REF SAID THEY WERE GOING TO START THE CLOCK ON HIS READY! just ridiculous. i kinda didn't want us to beat notre dame because strong seems like he sucks. but i held out hope. the offense is really good considering the continuing qb limitations, but obviously is not a creation of strong's and man, the defense. and special teams is still nothing to write home about.
As someone who doesn't have a vested interest either way, 2.5 seconds is a lifetime in terms of going after a loose ball. Since the whistle had blown, the play was dead. Without the immediacy of an attempt at a recovery, there was no change of possession. How long should they get? What if it were 5 seconds? Should Texas have gotten the ball then?
Interesting how much focus was on the offense the last 2 years but the defense has been just as bad. Not sure Bedford goes during the season but Strong either needs to take over play calling duties if/when this type of performance happens again.
I was saying the need to get rid of strong even during the ND game. I am on the tom herman band wagon. He seems to have some thin skin, but he seems to be a good coach.
Bad game all around. Perfect time for an off week. The D is young but yikes. Dylan Haines is not good.
Notice how Herman got things turned around at UH immediately after being hired. He didn't need two, three or four years to right the ship. He didn't have elite talent on that roster. He has a good QB, but other than that he has a lot of two star recruits. I get tired of people saying a coach needs three or four years to turn a program around.
Nope, that's only if it's fumbled OUT of the end zone, not simply INTO the end zone. Since no one immediately recovered it and the play was blown dead, the ball stays with the team that fumbled it at the place where the ball was fumbled because the offense can't advance the ball due to a fumble. If the ball bounced out of the end zone it would have been UT ball at the 20. I was initially confused about the call too, but they did the right thing.
That's not the rule. As BTG pointed out, the ball would have had to be fumbled through the end of the end zone, not simply into the end zone. The referees and replay official applied the rule correctly. You may not like the rule, but it was not misapplied.
This was a bad game on pretty much all fronts but the running game. Bad defense, bad special teams, and poor passing. The defense couldn't cover anybody and frequently had busted coverage. Our special teams were giving up 30 yard returns every time. Receivers missed a lot of dropped balls and Buechele floated those deep balls that I predicted would be undercut and picked off. Strong and the coaching staff lost us the game, though. Even with those errors, we still could have won. I can't understand why they would abandon the running game to throw it more. 51 runs for 6 yards a piece. You have 4 downs. Cal couldn't stop us when we ran it straight into the box. Our only misdirection run the whole game turned into Foreman's last TD. Why didn't we run the ball more? Why did we risk throwing the ball? And can anyone explain the last drive? All the passes, the clock mismanagement, and the punt to put the game on our defense that couldn't stop Cal all night. We had three and a half minutes with two timeouts to run the ball down their throats. Nope. It's another Strong head scratcher of a game. I don't get how he loses these every year. The players love him and he gets some signature wins, but these losses from winnable games are a huge mark on his coaching ability. I don't have much faith that he has what it takes to have us competing for a championship in the next few years.
