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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 472123, member: 289"]
Years ago Gene Stallings was coaching Alabama in one of their confrontations with Florida for the SEC title. It was 4th and 12 very late in the game. Stallings went for it but used a running play, (and not a draw play- it was, as I recall, a sweep). The color guy, when asked if that was a good call call, said , "Well Gene is a very conservative coach..." I thought to myself: Isn't being conservative playing the percentages and going with the option that is most likely to work? That surely wasn't it. I thought Stallings took a great risk that that play would fail, (and it basically ended the game). Sometimes we call things conservative when they are really anyhting but. Marrone has often said that he doesn't want to put his team in a bad positon should a play fail. But sometimes the 'conservative' option can put your team ina  bad position.
 
I'd love to see a coach, (especially our coach), decide not to punt in the other team's territory, unless we are specifically trying to pin the other team down in front of their goal line.  And if we are going to do that, we need to practice the "coffin corner" kick a lot more than we do. A touchback on a punt from the opponent's territory gains you very little.
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