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This is very true though.
Add Mississippi 08 on the 4th and 2 that sealed the win for the Bears. Mullen's a great offensive coach, but when the chips are down and he absolutely has to get a yard or 2, he's going to try to get it with a power run every time.
LSU 09, from inside the 5, we ran three of four plays. You can run four downs there because time wasn't a factor. A run play on the goal line is the correct call IF the clock isn't down about to run out. Auburn game.....it was a factor.
No arguments here. The point I was making was this. If we run and don't make then everyone would say we should have pass. If we pass and did not make it then everyone said we should have run. If we had run and got in, it would have been great play calling. If we had passed and it got in, it would have been great play calling. The bottom line is this. Relf had been running up and down the Field on Auburn the entire game. Why change what was working? (The Auburn guy made the play of his life.)
I honestly thought you were going to run the jump pass. With it being 3rd down and having enough time to run two plays, I thought you were going to run a jump pass or maybe a playaction roll out on third and then run an option or a dive on 4th if the jump pass didn't work.
Hindsight is 20/20, but with no timeouts, I would've wanted to make sure I got two plays personally, and I thought that's what you'd do.
The finish reminded me of the Arkansas game we had in Little Rock in 1990 where Chris Mitchell hit Ron Dickerson in the back at the 1, and he landed in bounds. They could've run two plays if I recall, but they did a run play and Dickerson didn't get out of bounds or get in the endzone, so the clock ran out on them. Of course, we were only up 4, not 7, so it was win or lose on that play. Auburn still would've had a shot in OT had it not worked out for them. Granted, with the way you were running the ball late, OT was probably yours for the taking.
Hindsight is 20/20, but with no timeouts, I would've wanted to make sure I got two plays personally, and I thought that's what you'd do.
The finish reminded me of the Arkansas game we had in Little Rock in 1990 where Chris Mitchell hit Ron Dickerson in the back at the 1, and he landed in bounds. They could've run two plays if I recall, but they did a run play and Dickerson didn't get out of bounds or get in the endzone, so the clock ran out on them. Of course, we were only up 4, not 7, so it was win or lose on that play. Auburn still would've had a shot in OT had it not worked out for them. Granted, with the way you were running the ball late, OT was probably yours for the taking.
Mullen DID change what was working. Relf had been running up and down the field from a spread offense. We tried to run from a power 3-TE set with Relf under center at the end. Not to mention that if we'd at least tried a pass on that last play, we could have still tried to run it on the next one. No excuse for giving ourselves only 1 chance to score when we could have had 2. I like Mullen. He's a great coach. But he blew it on that call.Big D said: