Why do college teams continue to fugging do this??? Serious discussion

@carl42

There are good arguments for both strategies. There are analytics arguments as well as feel of the game ones. But if you were the coach, the correct decision is the one that works. If you are driving and drive through a green light and get killed by a car going through a red light, there is no victory in being right and the other driver wrong. Your dead. Better to be lucky and wrong. Same with poker. Sure, there is a decision that is statistically correct, but when you lose the game, there is no prize for making the right choice. My point: all we have to look at is the game score and no hypotheticals. He made the wrong choice to kick the field goal.

@PeAceMaKer7690

Not saying he didn't make the wrong choice/right choice. My only point was, regardless of how it's done. SOMEONE is going to whine and bitch about it

You can't trust a college kicker, but you also can't trust the qb not to throw a pick or take a sack, you can't trust the RB not to fumble, the O Line not to hold, etc.

Any of the options can backfire

@carl42

 Yup. One of my alltime favorite quotes:

The Blacklist S3:E23 - Red: "I know so many zealots, men and women who choose a side, an ideology in which to interpret the world, but to get up every single day and do the hard work of deciding what to believe , what's right today, when to stand up or stand down, that's courage."

So many people think it should always be field goal or always touchdown. But a good coach looks at each situation, considers the analytics, considers the personalities, the mood, the feel, the situation, and thinks and makes a decision. And that is more courage than just saying 'I always kick a field goal here.' You could be half dead and coach a game with pre-determined decisions. But real courage is to make the call and live with your decision.

Trying to be objective because I had the Over. Yes I would have loved to see Miami go for the Td but kicking the field goal is probably the right call. Hindsight is always 20/20 but 9/10 times that's a good fg and the games over. If they try to run it in and the rb fumbles or they try to force one in the end zone and get picked everyone would be screaming why didn't they kick the fg! I was honestly expecting Virginia to let them score which turns out would have been the wrong strategy. What made absolutely no sense to me was how Virginia let 20 or so seconds come of the clock and then takes a to with about 10 left on the play clock WTF just play out the clock at that point and save the to for the next possession. 

@UNIMAN

 That's a good point about the fumble I forgot about that

@Bigdoubleplay

 I was wondering about that too. Seemed like terrible use. But I think he did the math and realized there would be no time left. So, just maybe, it was a genius mental strategy to mess with Miami coach. Give him time to think about playing for TD or field goal. If you get a coach to question their decision, they lose confidence in it. I think Miami coach did the same thing in the first half if I recall for the benefit of Virginia. Did a timeout right when Virginia was in the red zone and running out of time. LOL. But yeah, I was thinking even at 4 minutes and 3 minutes he could use the timeout b/c every Miami play was taking 40 seconds.

@PeAceMaKer7690

 precisely my point. once the UVA coaching staff gaffed on the Timeout, why not "let em score" to give yourself a chance to get the ball back. and yet they fire off the ball and plug the gap like stuffing the run matters there. 

just overall the handling of the end game situational management of the entire situation was atrocious by both teams...and sitting there watching it made me puke.

Yes! I agree with that. Virginia should have realized you can't get the ball back with time left and let them score. They played d like they were the 85 bears on the goal line  that made no sense. 

@steponaduck

 my only thought is they thought getting miami to take a loss for a few yards was their best shot. every yard backwards the fg% goes down.

@BennyIcers

 Exactly .  Everything is 20/20 after the game. Virginia won..NEXT!