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are ultimately responsible for the players' actions on the field (getting players on/off among other things). But in this situation, most of the blame should be on the players.

When the coaches call out a set (especially that far away from the spot of the ball) it's the players' responsibility to be aware that there is a change and get off the field by knowing what packages they are supposed to be in for. By the time the players realize that they're not supposed to be on the field (because they didn't pay attention to the sideline like they're supposed to), they can't do anything about it even if the coaches had been screaming their lungs out from the sideline. It's really miscommunication from both sides, but the players should carry most of the blame in this situation.

Obviously if this happens over and over (and I realize it happened in the UAB game) then it goes back to a coaching concern. But I think for now, it's another effect of taking an extremely young/inexperienced team on the road and them being put in an end-of-game situation that they've never been apart of.
 
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...he will always be remembered for Dooley's Dozen. Of course if he suceeds none of this will matter.
 
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That would make since if it had been 12 men on the field, think it through bud it was 13.
 
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Oh gotcha. I thought it was odd because nobody is gonna remember that game for his career at UT. Thanks though.
 
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Sudeepvol said:
are ultimately responsible for the players' actions on the field (getting players on/off among other things). But in this situation, most of the blame should be on the players.

When the coaches call out a set (especially that far away from the spot of the ball) it's the players' responsibility to be aware that there is a change and get off the field by knowing what packages they are supposed to be in for. By the time the players realize that they're not supposed to be on the field (because they didn't pay attention to the sideline like they're supposed to), they can't do anything about it even if the coaches had been screaming their lungs out from the sideline. It's really miscommunication from both sides, but the players should carry most of the blame in this situation.

Obviously if this happens over and over (and I realize it happened in the UAB game) then it goes back to a coaching concern. But I think for now, it's another effect of taking an extremely young/inexperienced team on the road and them being put in an end-of-game situation that they've never been apart of.
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Two players were headed off the field and got turned around by the coaches. Seemed like a Chinese fire drill and you probably had one coach trying to get one group on the field while another coach was yelling at the matching group to stay on the field imo.

Was it actually 13 or 14 that ultimately ended up on the field?
 
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