Big12Fan2024 said:bear2be2 said:Big12Fan2024 said:
No issue with going for 2. Still have a huge issue with not trying the FG earlier at 10-7.
Did you see the first FG attempt? It's hard to have any confidence in a kicker booting the greatest screwballs you've ever seen.
No doubt that was dog ugly but if you're ready to give up on your FG kicker as a coach in the 1st game of the year because he missed his first attempt then you should fire whoever is responsible for the kicking game and consider firing yourself as head coach because it implies the position was completely misassessed and the talent level misevaluated at that position in both Spring practice and a month of pre-season practices. It's difficult for me to believe the kid shanked every FG in practice and yet we put him in the game as our FG kicker. Surely if he was that undependable in practice and we had no confidence in him, we would have gone with someone else.
EDITED TO ADD: Just saw your other post that said he was a disaster in camp. Didn't know that. That explains a lot more, but although I know we lost Hawkins to Ohio St unexpectedly surely there was someone who could have competed with him in preseason practices? I guess not if that's who we rolled out. Yikes.
There's not much you can do about getting your all-conference kicker stolen by a blue-blood program at the very end of the portal cycle. That was just bad luck.
If there's one fact of life in the portal era, it's that depth isn't a luxury anyone can bank on. And that's especially true for a Big 12 program in the P2 era.
