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[QUOTE="ECE '76, post: 4789933, member: 8656"]
I long for the days of having a coach with the attitude of Coach Mac.  His team got embarrassed out at Nebraska 63-7.  Freakin' Osborne kicked an on-side kick in the SECOND QUARTER with a 21-0 lead.  Just outright running up the score.

Well Mac had a year to stew over that game.  He must have been planning how to get revenge for that whole year.  Dino would probably just tell himself, "we have no chance against those guys - national champs, NFL talent, yada yada yada".  Well Nebraska had to play in the Dome the next season.  And from the opening kick off til the final gun, Mac had those guys playing tough, solid, mistake free, and with emotional energy out of this world.  I presume you know the rest of the story...

Dino's not that coach.  We keep on hoping he's going to pull off some kind of upset with some surprise game plans, a highly emotional team, but really nothing since the 2017 Clemson game (when SU knocked out their starting QB).  Dino sure seemed resigned to losing these 3 games, badly.  It's almost like, just go through the motions and don't risk getting anyone hurt.  Problem is, you might never be able to turn the team back on again.

Coughlin would never do that.  He played to win, even after his Giants teams had playoff slots locked up.  He was another coach you would expect to be able to play up the the competition.  One year he took BC into Happy Valley and shocked them.  It was a thing of beauty.
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