Dayum. No ST coach on the roster. Dazzler should make himself walk home.
-> FOUR MORE IN MISERY
Colorado State: Steve Addazio didn't bother to hire a special teams coach for the Rams when he was hired a couple years ago, choosing to handle some of those duties himself. Which makes Colorado State's 26-24 loss to Utah State on Friday a double-whammy of incompetence that can be laid right at Addazio's feat since both the person responsible for managing the clock and the person responsible for the field-goal unit totally melted down with the game on the line.
After Colorado State got a first down with 12 seconds left and the ball on the 24-yard line, the obvious next play was for the quarterback to line up, spike it and have a full play clock for the field-goal team to set up for a game-winning kick. Instead, it was total chaos for the Rams as the field-goal unit ran onto the field and tried to get a snap off in a hurry while the game clock ticked to zero. Meanwhile, offensive players had to sprint off the field and there was all kinds of shifting going on with the offensive line before everyone got set. It didn't look like a team that was confident and ready for the game-deciding play. And predictably, the kick was missed pretty badly, dropping the Rams to 3-4.
Addazio, who got the job at CSU largely because Urban Meyer recommended him, has had clock management issues before — notably in 2015 when his Boston College team ran out of time near the goal line because it tried to run the ball into the end zone rather than pass it with no timeouts left and fewer than 20 seconds to work with.
Colorado State fans and players deserved better than what they got Friday night. But given Addazio's history in these situations, it shouldn’t have been a surprise. <-
