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chuck

Spot on Mr Bannon.

jecornel

Don James certainly had some rough losses but I don't recall many lost on clock management issues.

KoolAidMan

Bannon's Final Four is legit. I would go with Oregon over UCLA but totally could see them blowing it as usual. Some combo of Bama, FSU, Ohio St, Oregon/UCLA.

AZDuck

UCLA is not in with two losses, barring some sorta weird carnage in the other conferences

RaceBannon

AZDuck said:

UCLA is not in with two losses, barring some sorta weird carnage in the other conferences

Big 12 carnage on the way. There won't be enough one loss teams so 2 loss pac 12 champion is in

AZDuck

You gotta think SECSECSEC gets a 2-loss team in there before a 2-loss Pac-12 champ, even a non-champ SECSECSEC 2-loss team

sarktastic

Larry Scott magic?

RaceBannon

I think the committee goes for the champ whether they should or not

HFNY

This could be a red herring though, like the fake punt against Stanford (Shaq didn't audible out of it when he should've but Petersen took the blame for him).

People always want to blame the coaches but how do you know that Petersen or Jonathan Smith didn't tell Miles to wait until a few seconds were on the clock before clapping for the snap? IIRC, Miles asked for the snap with 7 seconds on the clock (whether Petersen or Smith told him or not, he should still know that himself) and it was 1:35 left and Arizona had a TO.

Do you put the ball in the hands of your RS-SR RB who has never fumbled or do you risk another wild snap back to a punter who already dropped the ball against ASU earlier in the year?

Basically, if Cooper holds onto the ball, people aren't talking about clock-management issues in the slightest but since he carried with one arm (how many coaches in high school and college told him to use two arms, 3 different coaching staffs?!?) and fumbled, people are looking at that.

It actually pisses me off because we should be looking at the remaining Sarkisian Sloppiness. The 13 penalties, Miles acting like a retard with the ball, and the giving up a TD on a fake FG when it was a chip-shot and we weren't going to block it. The bad snap on the PAT. THOSE ARE THE FUCKING REAL THINGS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED!

jecornel said:

Don James certainly had some rough losses but I don't recall many lost on clock management issues.

ORdawg

I liked what Race had to say re. Petersen and next year. True that the guys never quit, but they sure know how to fumble. True that the clock management was not good, but I that that the lack of aggresivness on defense caused the biggest problem. Our pass D was fine during the game until that last drive when we rushed only 3 giving the kittens plenty of time to find the open receiver. Enjoy your vacation Race and screw Bama.