“Take the points on the road”

[Grisly Fan]

There is a reason these olde tyme adages persist: they stand the test of time. Referee calls will go for or against you, sometimes costing you big but UND has only themselves for this loss. The unwillingness or inability to take chip shot field goals. I recall a couple of road games where Hauck opted to go for it on 4th dow and fail then the Griz lost by a point or two. I watch a lot college football and I see it often where the adage was ignored and if cost the visitors the game. UND would have had a win if they would have or perhaps could have taken the points. All other complaints are moot.

 

[BelierPeaux]

They clearly have no faith in the kicker who missed his first PAT and almost missed the second. He also was bad in previous games. I'm sure the dude feels terrible as that missed PAT is the difference in the game.

 

[mthoopsfan]

There is a reason these olde tyme adages persist: they stand the test of time. Referee calls will go for or against you, sometimes costing you big but UND has only themselves for this loss. The unwillingness or inability to take chip shot field goals. I recall a couple of road games where Hauck opted to go for it on 4th dow and fail then the Griz lost by a point or two. I watch a lot college football and I see it often where the adage was ignored and if cost the visitors the game. UND would have had a win if they would have or perhaps could have taken the points. All other complaints are moot.

On on the flip side, the Griz D stood up and stopped UND on those drives. The Griz should also get good credit. Yes, UND can look at some of their decisions, mistakes and inability to execute, and "blame" themselves, but they also need to "blame" the Griz on some. When it counted at the end, the Griz made more plays, and really way more plays, than UND did.

 

[mthoopsfan]

They clearly have no faith in the kicker who missed his first PAT and almost missed the second. He also was bad in previous games. I'm sure the dude feels terrible as that missed PAT is the difference in the game.

I'd hate to be the parent of a kicker.

 

[hm.grwn.grizfan]

UND should have won that game. Left points on the field not kicking field goals and it cost them. When you’ve got a team like our Griz on the ropes in our place you can’t let em hang around. UND did and it cost them.

 

[Downwiththefoe1984]

There is a reason these olde tyme adages persist: they stand the test of time. Referee calls will go for or against you, sometimes costing you big but UND has only themselves for this loss. The unwillingness or inability to take chip shot field goals. I recall a couple of road games where Hauck opted to go for it on 4th dow and fail then the Griz lost by a point or two. I watch a lot college football and I see it often where the adage was ignored and if cost the visitors the game. UND would have had a win if they would have or perhaps could have taken the points. All other complaints are moot.

A wise man once said ^^^^

 

[EverettGriz]

Meh. If they attempted to kick it and the kicker — who is clearly struggling — looked like Shankapotomus again, everyone would be screaming as to why he ran out a bad kicker and didn’t go for it.

There’s another old adage: hindsight is 20-20.

 

[Wolf777]

Meh. If they attempted to kick it and the kicker — who is clearly struggling — looked like Shankapotomus again, everyone would be screaming as to why he ran out a bad kicker and didn’t go for it.

There’s another old adage: hindsight is 20-20.

Always 20-20.

Schmidt did say after the game that he didn’t like the idea of kicking from the right hash after a couple bad kicks. After two bad kicks to the, left the right hash seems like the ideal location to me.

However, I personally feel he got greedy going for the coup de grâce on the first one and thought they could just run for the first and break our back/will. He’s probably right if it had worked out for him.

The second one was inexperience at the QB position, and a poor choice on the previous play by the OC leading to dreadful clock management. Montana fans would know nothing about that.

 

[mthoopsfan]

Meh. If they attempted to kick it and the kicker — who is clearly struggling — looked like Shankapotomus again, everyone would be screaming as to why he ran out a bad kicker and didn’t go for it.

There’s another old adage: hindsight is 20-20.

Many of the posters on egriz don't get their hindsight up to 20-20 either.