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You haven't seen a lot of football if that Fiesta Bowl was the worst you've ever seen.

Not even the worst end game coaching in the Pac-12 this decade. 

Heck, that's not even close to the worst end game Shaw has produced.

I'd have to go way back to last year's finish vs UW to find something worse (at least if I remember the details correctly). With no timeouts and 2+ minutes to drive for a winning score, at least twice Shaw substituted players - thus forcing the refs to give UW time to match the substitutions, wasting a precious 30 seconds or so of critical time.  That's 1/4 of the total time available for the drive.
Not to mention Shaw's over-strong aversion to spiking the ball to save clock.

However, I'm still amazed that despite the near universal griping about Shaw's turtling to sit on leads, I don't think that turtling has ever caused us to come from ahead to lose a game. As you noted, many other coaches would have fared better with a bit of turtling.

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You haven't seen a lot of football if that Fiesta Bowl was the worst you've ever seen.

Not even the worst end game coaching in the Pac-12 this decade. 

Heck, that's not even close to the worst end game Shaw has produced.

I'd have to go way back to last year's finish vs UW to find something worse (at least if I remember the details correctly). With no timeouts and 2+ minutes to drive for a winning score, at least twice Shaw substituted players - thus forcing the refs to give UW time to match the substitutions, wasting a precious 30 seconds or so of critical time.  That's 1/4 of the total time available for the drive.
Not to mention Shaw's over-strong aversion to spiking the ball to save clock.

However, I'm still amazed that despite the near universal griping about Shaw's turtling to sit on leads, I don't think that turtling has ever caused us to come from ahead to lose a game. As you noted, many other coaches would have fared better with a bit of turtling.