UH 44 SMU 38

by **Sam I Am** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:36 pm

SMU is 1-7 and 0-5 in CUSA. All "O" and no "D". JJ may ask for a pay raise for being put through all of this. Then again the fans might be entitled to a ticket refund for this season.

by **Harry0569** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:49 pm

I don't know how much longer I can go to games and watch us slowly but surely blow it. The football Gods hate us

by **originaloverthehilltop1** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:56 pm

i have to wonder why we ran the ball twice, (have we ever run for a first down when we had to have it?) threw incomplete and then gave them back the football with over two minutes to score the winner?

what has occurred that makes us that kind of confident in our d?

seems like second down would have been a great time for a play action pass. a first down would have won the game. is that too risky for a pass all the time offense?

by **jimhagle** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:58 pm

Agreed-this team can ill afford to ever get conservative especially with almost no running game to go to.

by **jkflamebo** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:02 pm

yea this team is no regular team, cannot leave anything to the defense to protect

by **Ponymon** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:03 pm

jimhagle wrote:Agreed-this team can ill afford to ever get conservative especially with almost no running game to go to.

I think that we have a running game if Butler is in. He has shown me both last year and this year that he has what it takes. Is there any update on his injury?

by **Pony94** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:30 pm

I would rather have seen a running play than that pass....take more time off the clock. But that would have jsut left them less time for a more miraculous last second win. Shoot me now...No Funeral.

by **TheBestAvailable** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:51 pm

Mckinney ran well tonight. Houston just loaded up knowing we would run to burn time. I would have liked to see June take a few shots there.

by **jimhagle** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:25 am

JJ got way too conservative that led to that last field goal and then ran instead of doing what this offense does best-throw- on the last possession. Anyone check our run stats for the game? Showed literally no chance for us to run for a first down at any time in the game much less at the very end of the game. And to throw to a guy[Wilkerson] who doesn't exactly have the best hands on the team instead of possibly Sanders? Please-

by **sail420s** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:58 am

Running the ball one last play would have at least run another 40 seconds off of the clock. The game would have been over 16 seconds before they scored. Why did they spike the ball at the end instead of using the last time out, then follow it up with a delay of game penalty? We still have a time out. I am pretty sure we can't bring it to Annapolis with us.

by **bagice** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:27 am

sail420s wrote:Running the ball one last play would have at least run another 40 seconds off of the clock. The game would have been over 16 seconds before they scored. Why did they spike the ball at the end instead of using the last time out, then follow it up with a delay of game penalty? We still have a time out. I am pretty sure we can't bring it to Annapolis with us.

I agree, I would have rather seen a running play there, if you run on first and second and get them to blow their timeouts, get the fruits of the first two runs by milking 40 more seconds off the clock.

Houston still probably would have got in field goal range but it would have been left up to their kicker to win it instead of a sure fire touchdown.

The last 24 seconds was very bad managment by SMU...Take your last timeout with 11 seconds and get two shots at the end zone. No excuse for wasting 5 seconds spiking the ball.

Oh well, SMU is jinxed beyond belief, guess we just need to accept we are not meant to ever win games.

by **SoCal_Pony** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:40 am

bagice wrote:
sail420s wrote:Running the ball one last play would have at least run another 40 seconds off of the clock. The game would have been over 16 seconds before they scored. Why did they spike the ball at the end instead of using the last time out, then follow it up with a delay of game penalty? We still have a time out. I am pretty sure we can't bring it to Annapolis with us.

I agree, I would have rather seen a running play there, if you run on first and second and get them to blow their timeouts, get the fruits of the first two runs by milking 40 more seconds off the clock.

Houston still probably would have got in field goal range but it would have been left up to their kicker to win it instead of a sure fire touchdown.

Bagice,

That strategy makes sense when you are a 4-2 team with bowl aspirations.

When you are a 1-7 team, with your only victories these past 2 seasons against NTSU and Texas State, when you have witnessed what we have during that time, complete D capitulationÃ¢â‚¬Â¦I argue that you let your Offense, which has performed pretty good over these past 2 years, you let THEM win the game.