I cannot fathom worse play calling! This was absolutely atrocious! The team still kept us close, but that play calling in the closing minutes proved you can lay the blame squarely on the head coach. 4th and 1, you had two options: 1. kick a field goal for a tie, and due to a freshman kicker, maybe lose or 2. RUN THE BALL! The third option, Pass, should ONLY be used if you have some crazy trick play, or something up your sleeve. What in the ever-living hell that is Miner fandom was that??? Unbelievable! And it wasn't just that drive... Look at the drive just before that, where it was 1st and 10, and they RUN.... then it was 2nd and long, and they RUN... Now, it's 3rd and short, and what do you do? PASS?!? SERIOUSLY?!?! Good lord. It was to the point where we kept praying that they would not do EXACTLY what we knew they'd do on the next play, which was of course, the DUMBEST thing possible.
If you were to write a textbook for a football class, this game would have been the chapter that shows you what plays NOT to run in every situation. Good lord.
After witnessing that, my preseason assessment of this year's Miners is definitely wrong.
Ugh. This was horrendous.
