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[QUOTE="Orijinal, post: 2669508, member: 2359"]
Posting this here just before the season because I feel strongly about this. Don't want to see Syracuse compromise a game again this year because they are kicking an onside kick when they don't need to ...and shouldn't.

I know some may disagree with me and that's fine, but let's play out the reasoning:

1) Never kick an onside kick unless you are in desperation mode. The onside kick by it's very nature is a desperate play: it has woeful recovery percentages

2) Based on #1, [I]never use the onside kick [U]at the end of a game[/U] if:[/I] you have 2 or more timeouts, have 3 or more minutes left, are down by 1 score, [I]and your defense is playing [U]even relatively[/U] well[/I]

3) If any one of the 3 conditions is [I]not met[/I] in point #2, then consider the option, but only then. And even in that curcumstance it is not necessarily called for

4) Even though point #1 is true, I do not necessarily have a problem with a surprise onside kick on occasion when the game is not in the balance and it's done withing the first 3.5 quarters of the game. Although I would still never use the onside kick myself unless desperate, I won't begrudge a coach trying to surprise another team

Babers misused the onside kick against LSU and may have been in a better position to win the game had he just kicked the ball away at the end.

Babers is not the only Syracuse coach in recent history to misuse the kick. But he is the latest.

Just want to see Syracuse in the best possible position to win games this year.
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