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In a game lost by three points, USF coach Skip Holtz defended his decision to allow about 20 seconds to run off the clock in the final minute of the first half, surrendering a shot at a touchdown to settle for a tying field goal on third down.
"I was not willing to roll the dice, call the timeout with 15 seconds, try to run a drop-back play, take a sack and all the sudden, you don't even get the three points out of it," Holtz said after Saturday's 37-34 defeat to Cincinnati.
"The decision I made at that second was, 'Don't get caught here without a point. Take your timeout. Kick the field goal. Make sure it's 10-10.' "
Facing second and goal at the 2 with 28 seconds left and one timeout, Holtz called for a quick pass. But QB B.J. Daniels chose to try to score on a keeper and was stopped for no gain. A timeout would have stopped the clock with about 23 seconds left, allowing for one pass into the end zone before, if necessary, settling for a short field goal on fourth down.
"If it wouldn't have been (incomplete) and something happened, we would have gotten zero points," Holtz said. "Then I'm sitting here answering questions, looking my team in the eye, saying, 'Why didn't you take the timeout and kick the field goal?' I felt like in a 10-7 football game, the three points were the most important thing.
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I completely disagree with his reasoning. His logic infers that he didn't have faith in his QB to not take the sack or throw the INT. I don't want a coach not willing to take the chances to win. TD gives us 4 more points, we lost by 3. Third and Goal at the
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Honeymoon's over Skip. Going into the Prevent Defense let Cincy go 70yds in 1 minute, the whole Defensive staff should be fired for what happened here and in Pitt.
10-22-2011, 02:08 PM
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