78 Spartan
09-20-2009, 03:45 PM
Here's the deal: SMU's offense racks up over 500 yards, over 400 of it passing, puts together a 27-13 fourth quarter lead on the strength of a great team performance.
It would be 27-7 except for a pick 6 for Wazzu. SMU's defense has been brilliant except for when it went into the prevent mode at the end of the first half. Now with about 10 minutes to go, you have a two TD lead and the ball, driving on Wazzu for what should be the clincher in a dominating win.
However, because your offense is the run-n-shoot, you keep throwing. You don't shorten the game to seal the win, you lengthen the game and keep the opponents in it. And your QB throws a second pick 6 and now it's 27-20.
But you're OK, take a deep breath, you still are still in control of the outcome of the game. Your offense drives it deep into Wazzu territory, there are less than 5 minutes to go and you are inside the Wazzu 20, eating some clock. You have Matt Szymanski, a highly reliable kicker, ready to put the nail in the coffin, and go 3-0 into a bye week to prepare for TCU.
So, what does June Jones do? He throws it some more, gets picked off again, and then of course the prevent defense comes in and gives up a length of the field drive for Wazzu to tie it with just seconds to go.
Of course, SMU loses it in overtime -- on another interception, BLM's fourth since halftime.
You'd think the coach would take some of this on his shoulders after the game, but no. What does he say? From the Dallas Morning News:
Coach June Jones said the Mustangs need to learn how to play in the Run and Shoot when they have the lead.
"Obviously, we would've liked to have won the game, but we're not in a formation that we're going to dominate running the football," Jones said. "We have to make the plays in the passing game. There's a different kind of pressure on the receivers and on the quarterback."
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When your program is so low that you have to unload the Brinks truck on June Jones to give yourself hope, I guess you just write your Mustang Club check and hope --- kind of analogous to "chuck-n-duck" --- but I have to say, this was clearly a case of SMU having it's biggest win in years almost salted away, except for a coach who appears more interested in proving the success of his scheme than he is in being smart and getting the easy "W".
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After all of that, our $10 million coach has to throw his young quarterback under the bus instead of taking some of the blame himself. That's what REALLY pisses me off.
It would be 27-7 except for a pick 6 for Wazzu. SMU's defense has been brilliant except for when it went into the prevent mode at the end of the first half. Now with about 10 minutes to go, you have a two TD lead and the ball, driving on Wazzu for what should be the clincher in a dominating win.
However, because your offense is the run-n-shoot, you keep throwing. You don't shorten the game to seal the win, you lengthen the game and keep the opponents in it. And your QB throws a second pick 6 and now it's 27-20.
But you're OK, take a deep breath, you still are still in control of the outcome of the game. Your offense drives it deep into Wazzu territory, there are less than 5 minutes to go and you are inside the Wazzu 20, eating some clock. You have Matt Szymanski, a highly reliable kicker, ready to put the nail in the coffin, and go 3-0 into a bye week to prepare for TCU.
So, what does June Jones do? He throws it some more, gets picked off again, and then of course the prevent defense comes in and gives up a length of the field drive for Wazzu to tie it with just seconds to go.
Of course, SMU loses it in overtime -- on another interception, BLM's fourth since halftime.
You'd think the coach would take some of this on his shoulders after the game, but no. What does he say? From the Dallas Morning News:
Coach June Jones said the Mustangs need to learn how to play in the Run and Shoot when they have the lead.
"Obviously, we would've liked to have won the game, but we're not in a formation that we're going to dominate running the football," Jones said. "We have to make the plays in the passing game. There's a different kind of pressure on the receivers and on the quarterback."
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When your program is so low that you have to unload the Brinks truck on June Jones to give yourself hope, I guess you just write your Mustang Club check and hope --- kind of analogous to "chuck-n-duck" --- but I have to say, this was clearly a case of SMU having it's biggest win in years almost salted away, except for a coach who appears more interested in proving the success of his scheme than he is in being smart and getting the easy "W".
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After all of that, our $10 million coach has to throw his young quarterback under the bus instead of taking some of the blame himself. That's what REALLY pisses me off.