G10: Louisiana 24, App. State 21

[CajunVic]

.....WELL NOT OFTEN that a coach puts the wrong call on himself.....but the correct calls were a run of some kind that, the chart showed on 3rd and 2.....if a 4th down occurs a quick kick is ideal with short yardage and the first down to decide the game! App coach mentioned the punt, safety, or quick kick if not a normal play call!

Fooled almost everybody with that safety.

[Turbine]

Fooled almost everybody with that safety.

The clock operator refused to start the clock for a full 5 seconds he was so fooled.

Everyone else was so fooled they didn't catch his clock error.

[HoustonCajun]

The clock operator refused to start the clock for a full 5 seconds he was so fooled.

Everyone else was so fooled they didn't catch his clock error.

The clock operator was highly suspect. He was corrected several times by the officials. Either home cooking or incompetence.

[HOUCajun]

The SI article did a great job of breaking down the available decisions and the percentages that went along with the choices. What it could not fathom, was the absolute lack on confidence in the snap.

QB’s are taught to throw the ball away to avoid a sack. It would have been nice if, in the moment, Levi would have recognized taking the sack on 3rd and 2 was the right move. But I think the coaches should have made the point before the play. Perhaps they did and Napier doesn’t want to throw his QB under the bus.

We will never know if that wild sequence of events cost Napier the SC job. If did, it was the greatest play call in UL history

[Esqueleto]

We will never know if that wild sequence of events cost Napier the SC job. If did, it was the greatest play call in UL history

100% correct!!

[covcaj]

100% correct!!

I have never hired a HC for football, but I would be very surprised if one or two calls, especially ones that, while controversial, did have some logic to it would have cost Napier the job. My guess is any coach that has called plays for a few years has made what would be considered in hindsight a dumb call. Remember Saban's field goal attempt in the Iron Bowl several years back. It would seem to me that you hire a HC based on the totality of the work and not on one or two calls, or even games.

[CajunVic]

I have never hired a HC for football, but I would be very surprised if one or two calls, especially ones that, while controversial, did have some logic to it would have cost Napier the job. My guess is any coach that has called plays for a few years has made what would be considered in hindsight a dumb call. Remember Saban's field goal attempt in the Iron Bowl several years back. It would seem to me that you hire a HC based on the totality of the work and not on one or two calls, or even games.

He was probably not hired because the totality of the ask $$$$ was much more than the totality of the ask $$$ by Beamer.

[Turbine]

I have never hired a HC for football, but I would be very surprised if one or two calls, especially ones that, while controversial, did have some logic to it would have cost Napier the job. My guess is any coach that has called plays for a few years has made what would be considered in hindsight a dumb call. Remember Saban's field goal attempt in the Iron Bowl several years back. It would seem to me that you hire a HC based on the totality of the work and not on one or two calls, or even games.

I agree 100%

Unless the play was 'yesterday.'

[HOUCajun]

Haha. Yes

[Boomer]

Haha. Yes

.......OK we keep Nap for now....but who would have gotten the job had he left??? Who would have stayed in what capacity? I am sure the Mag did some hypotheticals!