Oline with 6 starts- would love to see no false starts in a loud hostile environment
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They should be on a silent count to start the game.
There will be growing pains, but the line has talent.
They will get one on the their 1st offensive play. Hope not but on the road, loud and anxious to go.
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Let’s just hope they line up with 11 players on the field.
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The biggest thing most miss regarding this mistake..
is that it was NOT directly on Freeman that we had 10 men out there on the first play (this has happened to everyone who has been a HC at least one time).
However, the second play is completely on him on two separate levels due to either his inexperience or inability (TBD).
Level 1: a capable and experienced HC should have spotted it when there were 10 men on the first play, even if too late to correct it for the first play...this would have allowed him to grab the player he wanted in and have them ready to run on as soon as whistle blew after the first play.
Level 2: this is the biggie that most miss and Freeman definitely missed due to inexperience and lack of preparedness for big moments like that. Freeman stated they did run a guy on for the second play because he didn't want to get a penalty. However, little known fact...Tosu subbed their RBs between the first play with 10 men and the second play with 10 men.
When they did this, they opened the door for us to match substitutions without fear of penalty. The officials were actually holding up play, not letting Tosu snap when they wanted to allow us time to make a substitution. There's no way to know if having another guy would have prevented their score on the second play, but we didn't get to find out because an Inexperienced HC was not savy enough with the rules in that moment to realize that the second the offense made a substitution he was now protected by the rules to make his own substitution.
This was the biggest mistake MF made in that whole situation, that is completely and directly on HIM.
I'm not sure that's a HC responsibility, although *everything* ultimately is
I would think there's an asst coach, or GA whose only job is counting players. Also, at least partly on Golden.
Wait, which part?
I agree it was not his responsibility to get 11 out there in the first place.
Everything after that is definitely his responsibility...Freeman by his own words (correctly) stated as the HC his ultimate job is to see/notice/catch Everything...that is literally the ultimate responsibility of a HC when you break it down to the basics.
When the play occurred he should have noticed something was off without counting, then been prompted to do a quick count, then realized the mistake someone else had made, then sprung into action...instead he froze up to the point he didn't even capitalize on the fact the opponent made a substitution which opened the opportunity for him to correct the mistake without fear of penalty.
Too soon.
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I don’t think 1 or 2 would be unreasonable and realistic
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I’m hoping for no false starts. And plenty of
offsides when we are on O.
Edit: the original post above said no “offsides”
Fair enough. At UGA I think we jumped five times - drive killers.
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Liam Eichenberg was responsible for several of them. He seemed to struggle w/ that during his entire
time at ND.
Don't forget Mike McFlinchey.
Too much thinking went on, on the field, during that HC's tenure.