I hope you aren't defending him on this one.
You DO NOT take guaranteed 6 points off the board, to maybe put 3 points on the board, when trailing.
By scoring the TD we instantly made Duke have to drive entire field and score TD to win and opened up the opportunity to make a two point conversation to make Duke have to score a TD +extra point just to tie.
If we fall at 1 Duke potentially has to do nothing to win, we bobble snap or shank kick, game over, we lose.
The thought of trading 6 guaranteed points (plus 1-2 maybe points) for 3 maybe points is beyond stupid.
I'm sorry, I've been trying to give him the benefit of a doubt due to heat of the moment decisions, etc...but if he's too clueless now, looking back, to realize that analytic needs to be crumpled up and thrown in the trash, then we hired the wrong F'ing dude. That type of thinking will lose us games...