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Overtime strategy

Agree or disagree?

Your team wins the toss in OT. You pick defense, of course. The other team comes down and scores a TD. They kick the XP to take a 7-point lead.

Now it's your turn. You go down and score a TD. **** RIGHT HERE, YOU SHOULD GO FOR TWO. ****

Why?

If the game remains tied, you're headed for two-point tries anyway. Why not run your absolute best three-yard play right now... knowing the other team will never have a chance to answer? Get three yards now and win the game.

If you're not confident in your very best two-point play, why on Earth would you resign yourself to a game that will come down to two-point plays?

You will never have this edge again in this game. In the next OT, you have to go on offense first, and both teams MUST go for two. You are clearly at a disadvantage in the 2nd OT, and lord knows what happens after that.

If you score second in the first OT, you have the last advantage you'll have. Use it.

Aggravating and Unnecessary Situation Leaving Sanford on Friday Night

I sat in section 321. My daughter was in tech's band in section 101.

Prior to the game we agreed that she would meet me in front of the bookstore after the game (she wasn't going to ride back to tech on the bus, she was going home with me). During the game she texted me and wanted me to just come to her section to pick her up after the game. The band would be staying late no matter the outcome. I agreed. While it seems really easy for you and me to just say "meet me at the bookstore" it was going to be late and dark and she was unsure of her surroundings. She didn't realize how close she was going to be to the bookstore. She entered the stadium with the band, not with me, or she would have known because I would have shown her.

So after our glorious come from behind win, I began trying to make my way from 321 to 101. I went down a ramp and found that I was about to exit the stadium. I turned around and went upstream and I came to a stairwell that I needed to go UP and there were 2 of these stadium workers (a 30-40 year old female and a young man, maybe 20 years old) dressed in the light blue shirts and they were standing there telling someone that he couldn't go up the stairs when I walked up. They began telling me the same thing. I told them that I was trying to get to my daughter and they didn't give a shit. For all they knew, we were talking about a kid, they didn't ask her age and that alone was ridiculous. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would have said "what do you mean you're trying to get to your daughter, is she lost?" or something like that. The young male was dumber than a box of rocks and just kept repeating that nobody was going up the steps. I kept telling him that I wanted to ask him a question. But the stupid, obnoxious MF'er just kept repeating that nobody was going up the steps. He wouldn't listen to my question, much less answer it. I was trying to ask the asshole if I left the stadium, would I be allowed back in another gate so I could get to my daughter but the dumb bastard just kept repeating that nobody was going up the steps. I seriously considered finding out if the prick was capable of stopping me but decided that I didn't want to get locked up when they called for help (these weren't security guards). It would have been fun finding out whether the shithead could have stopped me or not. I wasn't drinking and I wasn't cussing, he was just a douchebag and a moron. I left the stadium and began to work my way around counterclockwise and soon came to another gate. I immediately had a pretty good idea that I wasn't going to be allowed in. So I just walked in confidently and purposefully to the loud protests of the people manning that gate. I ignored their protests regarding no re-entry, etc. There were a lot of police walking by and I was just waiting to be tackled from behind by one of the police officers, but fortunately it didn't happen and the rest of the evening was uneventful. What a pain in the ass.

Questions I have for Tech fans…

Are they not by now accustomed to their station in the pecking order? Shouldn’t they be used to losing to Georgia by now? Are they no longer satisfied by not losing by 40 points? Have they not heard their own children ridicule them behind their backs? Do they not see the disappointment on the faces of their families as they unwrap Tech gear at Christmas?

Overtime format

Better idea for OT format?

Place the ball on the 50, and give the offense 2:30.
Then give the other team the same set up.
Repeat until someone wins.

Advantages

1 - The offense doesn't start already in scoring position
2 - Dueling two-point conversion tries is not football. It's for 7-on-7 tournaments with guys in shorts.
3 - Football is meant to have a clock.
4- No need to walk all the way to the other end zone after each two-point-try period.

This is Josh Pate's suggestion, and I think it makes a lot of sense.

Thoughts?

Solution to the overtime rule....

Let me preface this by saying I HATE the "penalty kicks" format. It's a coin toss way to decide a game and we very easily could have lost that coin toss. It especially favors the weaker team by putting everyone as close as possible to the goal line. My simple solution is as follows:

Instead of starting teams at the 25 yd line in the first OT. Just start at the 50. Then run the same rules that we used to have form there. It eliminates a team from being able to go 3 and out and just kick a 42 yard field goal to extend the game. If you stop your opponent, then you still have to put some plays together to get your self in field goal range. Make going for 2 mandatory to help avoid the 8 OT stuff. You will have less OT periods, but I'm willing to bet less plays overall, or at least a reasonable amount of plays and the winner will have actually earned it.

Somebody tell me why this is a terrible idea.

Why I am not worried about Texas

1. People keeping saying 30-15. Game easily could gave been 40-7 - gift TD, Becks play, FGs, etc..
2. As much as I hate the things we did wrong in the GT game, easily could have rolled over and taken the mulligan knowing we were in with the SEC win. Both team and coaching staff have hearts of champions. If I was UT that we scare the crap out of me.
3. Still think UT is a bit of smoke and mirrors (see #1 and played no other ranked teams). A&M sucks. They gave up 40 plus to SC and LSU late in the year. Their OC play calling was right there with Bobo. Those 2 4th down stops were on him for running the same play. Plus their QB was horrible.
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