Dr. V
PhD Student
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Reg: 11-21-04
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11-20-18 12:57 PM - Post#266639
In response to Chet Forte
PeteD is right and Engels does not "completely disagree" with the type of points made by Pete. Engels is quoted as saying that in hindsight we should have called a TO. He's trying to deflect blame from his players, as a good coach should do.
Chet, with all due respect to your passion, it is ridiculous to write that one can't think of a single good reason not to have called a time out on that inbound play. If you're the defending team on an inbounds play, you always want a TO so that you can set your D up; if you're the team taking the ball out AND you're behind in the score by a little, you always want a TO to plan your desperation play; but if you're the inbounding team and you're ahead, coaches employ one of two strategies: don't take a TO so as not to give the defending team time to set its defense up and hope it won't be ready to react effectively to your trying to getting the ball in play OR take the TO, thereby giving both sides added time to plan the inbounds play. We were ahead and we were inbounding the ball, thus we had the choice of two strategies. In hindsight, we chose wrong, but that's only in hindsight.
Pete's description of what happened is accurate. I too re-wound that last play multiple times. Our players didn't execute a number of basic plays, such as not throwing a pass into a crowd.
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