FWIW: It's a reasonable position, I think, and it's position that I will stand by, the coaching staff did the best they could in balancing a plan to evaluate players, establish a continuing bond of trust, leadership and respect in the entire program, and balance it with a plan that they thought would be competitive. The only decision I have problem with, and I've been consistent about it, is the late field goal. That was a mistake, IMO, a losing decision, no matter what way you look at it, and something that should not be repeated, not in the game, or in the way it's discussed publicly after.
I have questions about the game plans, not so much the offense, most specifically D, it didn't seem that we had specifically schemed for Hill and that seemed insane. It seemed almost like BYU took the pedal off a bit in the game, because after going up by 3 TD possessions on the score board early 21-0, both times we managed to put together a scoring drive after that, they immediately carved us up again for the remaining 2 TD's they scored, on the following possession. Primarily because it looked like we had no one on D who's primary role was to spy the QB. There is no way for me to know if that was actually happening, or not, but it's what my brain decide my eyes were looking at. If it did happen, that's crazy, IMO, in designing a game plan defensively against an offense like BYU. but it's irrelevant, the game is over, and they hopefully learned from whatever they did, because it didn't work on defense - at all. Fine line between genius and insanity so they say, so while I disagree with a lot of what understand about what's happening, it doesn't mean we don't finish the season in December, as winners.
