McCray and Lindley

[Hoop Fan]

did either of these freshman play last night? Wilton McCray had been very noticeable in Fall drills. I thought Johnny Fitzgerald struggled at his new position last night. He did look much bigger than last year, almost linebacker like.

[PerunaPunch]

I didn't see Lindley out there, but McCray absolutely drilled TCU's QB on the last play. I hope Cumbie has to live with a #5 indentation in his chest for a long time.

I wonder if that moron Leach realizes that not only was he being a classless [deleted] last night, but in "coaching our players to play hard, finish, score, all that stuff" what he was really doing was endangering his first team by playing them after the game had already been won.

Not only was kneeling on the ball and running the clock out the classy thing to do, it's also the right strategy. Smart coaches put the game away when they have a chance. Only egomaniacs try to keep going (and it's not like they'd been particularly successful throwing on SMU for the prior 59 minutes) when they have a change to end the game immediately with a W. Somebody easily could have gotten hurt with the SMU defenders crashing the QB, and it just as easily could have been picked off and taken the other way.

[The PonyGrad]

I agree, that was my sense. Not only poor sportsmanship but stupid as well, unless he feels that he can easily replace his starters, but if he felt that way why not play the 2nd string?

[Corso]

I didn't see Lindley out there, but McCray absolutely drilled TCU's QB on the last play. I hope Cumbie has to live with a #5 indentation in his chest for a long time....

Ha -- I agree with your sentiment, but I don't really blame Cumbie: he ran the plays that were called.

Much like McMurtray did when he pooched a kick-off halfway downfield when were down two TDs with three minutes - can someone explain THAT call?

[FloridaMustang]

Why didn't Lindley play?

[Vitale]

He did .... a lot on special teams. Not sure if he played on defense. From everything I hear, he'll get significant time on defense, too, before the year's out. I expect that when we face a team with big WRs -- like TCU -- we'll see more of Lindley. Folks keep telling me he's too good to keep off the field.

[SMUguy]

I think you'll see more of both against the frogs. Several players barely played against Tech and its gimmicky offense: Lindley, Don Ieremia-Stansbury, Brandon Bonds (although Lucky DeLay did play extremely well!) All three should play more against the frogs.