I've noticed some posters here, Comp, and even the announcers say negative things about UM keeping their starters in and doing a trick play late in the game. I am of a different mind about that kind of stuff: it's MSU's job to stop UM from scoring, not UM's. If a team wants to continue to score when the game is in hand, so be it. The margin of victory will help UM if they are undefeated and trying to get into the playoff. There is nothing immoral about the late game trick play.
That said, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. We saw that afterward with the fools who went in to taunt 85 football players alone. What a foolish decision. Sure you can go in there and trash talk 85 large people, but it's not something anyone using their brain would do...or anyone with a degree of sportsmanship would do.
A good coach who is thinking of the team, the players, the challenges ahead, the goal for the season, well they would NEVER keep their starters in that long after the game was in hand. Why? Because of the risk of injury. That alone is coaching malpractice. On his last carry less than two minutes to play, what if their running back badly sprains an ankle or received a severe concussion or worse? JH didn't make a mistake with the fancy play (I mean, who cares what play they run). The mistake he made was not thinking about the welfare of the players, the season and their team goals.
That said, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. We saw that afterward with the fools who went in to taunt 85 football players alone. What a foolish decision. Sure you can go in there and trash talk 85 large people, but it's not something anyone using their brain would do...or anyone with a degree of sportsmanship would do.
A good coach who is thinking of the team, the players, the challenges ahead, the goal for the season, well they would NEVER keep their starters in that long after the game was in hand. Why? Because of the risk of injury. That alone is coaching malpractice. On his last carry less than two minutes to play, what if their running back badly sprains an ankle or received a severe concussion or worse? JH didn't make a mistake with the fancy play (I mean, who cares what play they run). The mistake he made was not thinking about the welfare of the players, the season and their team goals.
