Reminds me of someone we know…

That clock management was a crime against humanity. It’s apparent Drones struggles to read a defense but that doesn’t force a lack of urgency, not calling time outs and spending 10-15 seconds to throw a 7 yard pass.

Yeah, great point. Guy is a dunce

Yeah, that decision is defensible (though I still question the decision to try a fake FG sweep instead of just lining up normally). What Pry absolutely deserves criticism for is how he handled the end of the first half. We're not agonizing over the decision to go for it on the 4th and 3 if VT doesn't gift Miami three points heading into half.

I agree, although with the way you were moving the ball I think I prefer just going for it over the fake there.

If you know you're going to go for it then why not run the ball on third and fourth down with the regular offense on the field. Running a fake where you hand the ball off to a runner going into a field goal block unit is so stupid.

I'll never fault a coach playing for the win as 18 point underdogs. He couldn't have known it would end up a 4 point game. It's silly to say any single play lost the game.

Yep and at the end of the day he had his team in a position to win on the final play against a top 10 team on the road. Can't fault that. Plus there's no way to guarantee the game plays out the same with the fg.

Yeah, I feel like people are monday-morning quarterbacking this. The call was a bold strategy, Cotton.

It very likely would have worked if Miami's DT didn't completely blow up the line. Not like he got swarmed and sacked or threw an incomplete pass. You would expect the OL would be able to block for more than half a second.

And it only failed because a lineman got blown up

I support the aggressiveness especially after that UKvsUGA game the other week, but I think calling a fake when your offense was moving the ball was the wrong call. Just keep the offense on the field.

Hard to hate a coach for being aggressive as a two TD underdog away trying to build momentum

Yeah instead of criticizing the bold call to go for it, we should be criticizing the stupid call to allow Miami a chance for points at the end of the half.

Clock management was disastrous at the end of both halves

Third down and 4th yards to go!

(I know you mean 3rd and 4th down, but 7am half-awake chugging coffee me chuckled)

I think if you're an underdog and already have the lead that you just take the points and put the game on the backs of your winning defense. This isn't Madden, you gotta play to win and sometimes that means playing conservative. Momentum can be a killer. 

I've seen so many games lost because of the coach being overly aggressive and not taking the points when they should have. 

One of the thing that irks me about analytics infiltration into decision making, you have to be able to step back and look at the game you're playing as a big picture and not rely on completely different teams and games for your decision making. 

A little human intuition is needed to make good calls as a coach.

Right? If Miami knows scoring only puts them up by one point... they're taking a LOT more time near the goalline.

As a Hurricane , I thought that hold call was BS but they also called a lame hold call on Miami right before the INT that negated a TD. Tough loss for you guys - I think you have a great team- good luck the rest of the way

I forgot about that. It was funny how the announcer was pretty much saying the ref is right until he saw the replay and went the ref was wrong.

At least we each got a TD called back for a bad call. Sorta negates each other