VolinDawgland
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We can argue all day about the timing of his decision, but I think you are absolutely right. It is quite possible that Kiffin wanted to test his OL to see how nasty they could get. Personally, I was wondering the same thing. I'm on record saying he called the exact play that I wanted to see.
i can say with certainty that if you asked most ut fans what they were booing about saturday, their honest answer would be crompton and not the coaching staff. do i agree with it? no, not really but that was where most of the boobirds were aiming at
also, i can almost guarantee you that nobody would have complained about the playcalling saturday had we not had inept qb play that was behind the loss in the first place
Me too, I wanted to see us grind it over the goal line. In retrospect a play action with a pass to a TE slipping out would have been a nice change up...particularly if you put a tackle eligible former TE like Douglas into the line-up.
At that point in the game, any kind of throw by Crompton, or roll-out for that matter, would have sent shivers up my spine.
The good news: Lane now understands what Crompton can and cannot do.
The bad news: We may run out of cortisone for our O-Line before the season is over.
If it was just bad QB play, it would be one thing, but when your OL is getting dominated too, anything you do as a playcaller is going to look bad. He didn't have any options that didn't suck.
I'd like to have seen him try something else too, but really, I can understand why Kiffin called it the way he did, given the culture he's trying to establish (pulling Brown for going out of bounds against WKU, etc.). If you can't get two yards on two carries -- at home against a Pac 10 team -- then you might as well not have gotten off the bus.