Holy crap people, I realize 8 is a 1 possession game, HOWEVER

Sep 19, 2021
8:36:00am

dryflyelk All-American

I’d bet I’d you ran the odds the chances of

1. Blocked kick and takes it all the way
3. ASU scores TD
4. ASU converts 2 pt conversion
5. ASU wins in OT

ARE LESS THAN

1. ASU score TD
3. Onside kick
4. ASU score another TD to win

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Anybody else think the decision not to kick the PAT was weird?

dryflyelk All-American

9/19/21 8:26am

8 is a single score game. It was the right call

webster242

9/19/21 8:27am

absolutely the no brainer call for this reason. Shows the coaches were on top

palangi

9/19/21 8:36am

8 is one score though. 10 vs 11 doesn’t matter. And maybe with Oldroyd out they

Martin Van Nostrand

9/19/21 8:28am

8 is one score. So hypothetically a blocked PAT returned followed by a Hail Mary and they tie it.

JohnnyComeLately

9/19/21 8:28am

I mean, the knee makes it 99.99999% instead of just 99.9999% that we win.

mobomanjoe

9/19/21 8:28am

Ya the math seemed a wash to me too, unless they have some analytics we don’t.

Blue chunks

9/19/21 8:32am

If they did have analytics, I’m sure Rod would have let us know.

BoiseBlueCoug

9/19/21 8:44am

Being up 2 scores is better than the possibility of not being up 2 scores.

ike

9/19/21 8:28am

Byu did the same thing after Harline was Still open

TEXAS

9/19/21 8:28am

I still don’t understand why they made us run that play. There are so many

ChiCityCoug

9/19/21 8:30am

Because Utah could have tied with a score.

Skeeziks

9/19/21 8:34am

Got it. Makes sense.

ChiCityCoug

9/19/21 8:36am

8 points is still a one possession game, and overtime would be dicey.

LilToney

9/19/21 8:28am

I was definitely getting nervous envisioning a quick score, onside and FG to tie

jamfam

9/19/21 8:30am

It was the right call

bythenumbers

9/19/21 8:31am

The in-game announcers and the post-game show were praising the call.

Traveshamockery

9/19/21 8:32am

Close call.

WizeGuise

9/19/21 8:32am

They wanted to stay on script with one more point margin of victory each game

Florwood

9/19/21 8:32am

It happened in the Nebraska Oklahoma game yesterday.

TwinsRight

9/19/21 8:33am

You beat me to it.

My2cents

9/19/21 8:35am

They probably watched OU earlier in the day.

My2cents

9/19/21 8:35am

How's the kicker feel about it? Not showing a lot of confidence in the backup.

Cougsanity

9/19/21 8:35am

Holy crap people, I realize 8 is a 1 possession game, HOWEVER

dryflyelk

9/19/21 8:36am

They can still do the stuff in situation two, but it gives them the extra (unlikely) out in situation one.

TCuz

9/19/21 8:39am

Wouldn't need an onside kick after blocked PAT return

bythenumbers

9/19/21 8:40am

He edited it but not the numbers.

ChiCityCoug

9/19/21 8:41am

We would still kick to them after the blocked PAT… they wouldn’t have to get an

ChiCityCoug

9/19/21 8:40am

They wouldn't have to kick onside, that's the point

CougarBlue08

9/19/21 8:41am

There was a blocked PAT returned earlier and BYU was on the backup kicker.

Byron McNertney

9/19/21 10:39am

Weird call …especially after having your backup throw a pass into the

bigbluecougar

9/19/21 8:40am

Considering the circumstances, wasn’t weird at all. Great call.

Traveshamockery

9/19/21 9:05am

Nope - guaranteed a two score game

BYU Fan

9/19/21 8:51am

Weird but definitely a good call

WaybackCougar

9/19/21 9:04am

A block and return would take it to a one score game.

LifeLongLakerFan

9/19/21 9:26am

It would only be weird if it didn’t make any sense to do so.

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