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Monday, November 16, 2009

Monday links (11/16)

It's finally the bye week, a much-needed time of rest for the players and, honestly, us beat writers. But the links never rest. Let's get to them:
  • We've got bowl projections. Barring a win against Alabama, most people have Auburn going to one of the lower-tiered bowls of the SEC tie-ins. Low has the Tigers in the Liberty Bowl. It's Outback or Music City say Mark Schlabach and Bruce Feldman. Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel also says Liberty, against Houston. Think there could be some points scored in that game?
  • This is probably more interesting to journalists, but Oregon is using FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) to refuse divulging any information about what suspended running back LeGarrette Blount had to do to get re-instated to the team. Ken Goe of the Oregonian has the story.
  • Here's a blast from the past for me. Justin Doherty, who was a sports information director during my time at Wisconsin, has an excerpt from a book he wrote about Ron Dayne. This part is about when he broke the NCAA rushing record against Iowa. I was at the game. It was cold, but fun. Once he got the mark, everyone in the stadium held up the free No. 33 towels up so that the whole stadium was a sea of white. It was pretty cool.

2 comments:

War Eagle AC-47 said...

If we needed one point to tie at the end of the game, you kick the PAT. Why? Our kicker is almost bullet proof. Our TD performance in the red zone, not so much.

In over time, strong kicking is like having two castles in chess at the end. Always nice to have even if you don't need it.

The logic of going for two when the game is in doubt seems flawed. Why do you go for two? It's because you think you have momentum. Did we have momentum at that point? Perhaps if we had just scored a TD.

I know Chris Brown at Smart Football is always oing over stuff like this.

A smart statistician would have to look back over our 3rd and short or 4th and short to see what kind of percentage we've had. I don't don't think it's good enough to warrant going for two with the game in doubt at the very end of regulation.

Andy Bitter said...

Well, Georgia's kicker is just as good. And Byrum did barely sneak a field goal in earlier.

Plus, I don't think Chizik had much confidence in his defense at that point. The Tigers got run over in the second half. I don't think I can fault a coach for going for two on the road. At home, I'd say no.