Didnt Bill Battle call a dumb fake punt once?

[hardyemt_p]

The guy is a moron.

Got that right. No way fields would have been out there. Fromm was having a helluva game. He was trying to keep a recruiting promise I'm sure

 

[njvols]

That was the worst fake punt call I have ever seen and on top of that they called a running play with 11 yards to go

Agree. UGA fan board has to be flaming

 

[njvols]

That was a stupid call. UGA lost 2 games. One on a stupid fake field goal. And now this one...……NOT only was it a bad call, but the players appeared NOT to know what to do!!

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If u want some good reading go over to dawgnation and read up on UGA fan thoughts...lol.

 

[RollerVol]

I was stunned. Bama had it sniffed the whole time and stayed in a base defense. The punter should have seen it and called a timeout. Dumb dumb dumb. Punt it and play defense.

Saban knows the signals...the master over the student...

GO VOLS!

 

[Tacoma Vol]

My uncle took me to that game. He bitched and cussed all the way back home to Chattanooga. I will never forget that car ride.

 

[BigBadVol]

Comparing Kirby Smart to Bill Battle? Please.

 

[DaUndergroundMan]

Been doing a walkabout through dawg and tide forums.

General consensus is...
You never call a fake punt on 4th and 11 in those circumstances. A dawg forum has a hilarious thread on it. Mostly filled with random curse words, with the word kirby sprinkled in.
Bama was in safe defense, they noticed fields and and the primary receiver and pointed like mad men.

In this case on 4th and 11, in that position, in that kind of game, you recognize the gambit failed and call the damn time out.

Simple as that. Anything else is just mindlessly admiring the clouds while you step on a rattlesnake.

 

[DaUndergroundMan]

A noisy, rattling his tail off, rattlesnake.

 

[DaUndergroundMan]

Here's the thread...thought about making a best of...but the language doesnt meet our guidelines.
dawg meltdown

 

[onevol74]

Not only was it dumb, but bama seen it coming a mile away and lined up in their regular D, and Kirby didnt even change the call. Guess Kirby isnt very Smart after all

The dumb part was making that call with a freshman QB. If Fields had not panicked and made the pitch UGA would have had a 1st down and possibly more.

Burt I do like the fact that Kirby looks like the coach that can’t win the big one. I also like the the fact that UGA fans are in total despair this morning. No SEC championship and no chance at the playoffs with a talented team.

 

[DNBVOL]

The dumb part was making that call with a freshman QB. If Fields had not panicked and made the pitch UGA would have had a 1st down and possibly more.

Burt I do like the fact that Kirby looks like the coach that can’t win the big one. I also like the the fact that UGA fans are in total despair this morning. No SEC championship and no chance at the playoffs with a talented team.

Yeeees yeeeees....it is glorious! Now lets just hope someone can luck up and beat bama

 

[Samuellbronkowitz]

What stupid crap didn't Battle do?

 

[onevol74]

What stupid crap didn't Battle do?

Nothing he did compares with Bob Woodruff naming a 27 year old position coach who had never been a coordinator as his head coach.

 

[JohnWardForever]

Anyone else want Chaney back after that second half performance ?

LON CHANEY has way too much junk in the trunk for my eyes.

 

[Vol_Maul]

The fake punt was not a good play at all, but I believe that Smart’s bigger mistake was not going for it on 4th and short on the possession where they missed the relatively short field goal. I know that Georgia has a great kicker, but if they managed to go up 35-14 at that point then it was pretty much over.

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

Here's the thread...thought about making a best of...but the language doesnt meet our guidelines.
dawg meltdown

I like the, "That call would make Les Miles shake his head."

 

[DaUndergroundMan]

I like the, "That call would make Les Miles shake his head."

I liked this one...
"Kirby wasn’t even playing checkers on that one. He was sitting in the corner seeing how many checkers he could fit in his mouth.
If I believed in conspiracies, I would think the play was set up to give Alabama the win and Hurts the chance for a storybook finish. There wasn’t any other logical reason for that play.
I don’t believe it was a conspiracy, so I’m left with the fact that Kirby made the dumbest call in the history of football."

 

[Vol Main]

Johnny Majors punted on third down.

 

[secking]

Actually, NO. The play was there, the exact same play was used in the 2012 SECCG and it worked. Kirby knew the Bama punt safe formation, they haven’t changed apparently. The difference is Ga took to long. Ga got the look from Bama it wanted and Swift was eligible (on the end of the line) bc the two WR were off the line. In 2012, they snapped the ball in less than 5 seconds, on Saturday, they gave Bama enough time to recognize it and you can see Mack Wilson rolling over the top of Swift. Had they not had time to move him, Swift catches it, most likely for a TD, Ga practiced this play all week if they got that look, they got what they wanted, Fields just too long to hike it. Here is the play if Fields hikes it even 5 seconds earlier.

 

[cardvolfan]

I was there, hated seeing it at the time, but at least with many years of hindsight I can follow his thinking. He was obviously thinking there was no way we prevent them from scoring again,

 

[Pepe]

And wasn't he winning?

If he called a fake punt and it did not work then it was dumb.

 

[volmanNC]

Georgia will be favorites next 2 years in east but they are snake bit vs Alabama.

 

[orangebloodgmc]

Johnny Majors punted on third down.

That's different.

 

[Evergrenevol]

Here is the dumb fake punt. It’s at 2:46 in this video

I remember this game well. My father was typically pretty vocal during Vol games, but after that play he didn’t say a word for about 3 days. Thanks for the memories.....whew..and we’re dating ourselves.