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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1570448, member: 289"] - It was a game between two 3-8 teams and it sure looked it. The best strategy was “flag on the play”. There were 17 penalties for 174 yards plus the yards gained that were negated by them. On our first possession we got to the BC 27 but the drive got killed by two holding penalties. Then we gave them 15 yards for interfering with the catch on a punt, (which was a terrible call, by the way- there were three bad teams out there, one being the refs.)But on our first score we got 29 of our 65 yards on BC penalties. - Then there were those passing games. BC’s quarterback, Jeff Smith, attempted 13 passes and completed 3 of them- two to our guys. At one point Chris Gedney said “I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this before.” Smith’s passes looked like something you’d see on a beach. - Zach Mahoney has a strong arm but no sense of touch. Every pass is a cannon shot. He managed to complete 12 of 26 for 88 yards and two scores. He’s master the art of overthrowing a receiver who is breaking open 30 yards down the field. Somehow, Zach has an excellent TD to interception ratio of 6-2. There’s hope for the future. You can teach touch but you can’t teach arm strength. - When we scored to go up 17-7, I allowed myself to think that we had this game in the bag because we were in total control of their pathetic offense. Then Michael Walker ran through a wide lane in our kickoff return coverage out to the BC 38, Smith ran a bootleg that went for 53 yards and Tyler Rouse bolted through a hole wide enough for about 10 Tyler Rouses to run through and into the end zone. - If we’d held on to win the Virginia and Pittsburgh games, (and we led both going into the fourth quarter), than this becomes our bowl clinching game. Scot Shafer is likely still our coach and I believe that we’d have had a winning team next year and a real breakthrough in two years. What we needed was for the freshmen and sophomores to become juniors and seniors and be joined by a couple more good recruiting classes. Hopefully the new coach will be a good recruiter and get us those two good classes. I think that’s more important than his being an offensive genius. Your players determine your IQ. [/QUOTE]

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