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I'm with WiM.  Going conservative with more than 10 mins left on the clock was a bad decision - in fact two bad decisions since he did it two series in a row.  Pretty clear that ND was committed to not letting McCaffrey beat them, and Hogan was having one of the best games of his career - arguably the best of his career given the situation.  The gameplan for the first three quarters was really well done - not showing a whole ton of creativity in the first half and then really unleashing the entire offense in the first 20 mins of the second half with fantastic misdirection and play action.  ND's defense was completely discombobulated and on its heels at that point and I think Shaw gave them an opportunity to find their footing by taking his foot off the gas pedal.  I think if Stanford had scored on either of those 3 and outs - even a FG - the game would have been over with a two-score lead.

I'm not saying "Fire Shaw" I'm just saying he made some very questionable decisions in the fourth quarter that exhibit a tendancy toward excessive conservatism late in the game.  Hogan bailed him out.  I'd really like to see him stick with what's working until the clock has wound down much further.

I hope it's not an issue next weekend and our boys take the Toejams to the woodshed early and often.  But something tells me they are in for a real battle.  This is not the same U$C team they faced in Week 3, but maybe Stanford isn't either.

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I'm with WiM.  Going conservative with more than 10 mins left on the clock was a bad decision - in fact two bad decisions since he did it two series in a row.  Pretty clear that ND was committed to not letting McCaffrey beat them, and Hogan was having one of the best games of his career - arguably the best of his career given the situation.  The gameplan for the first three quarters was really well done - not showing a whole ton of creativity in the first half and then really unleashing the entire offense in the first 20 mins of the second half with fantastic misdirection and play action.  ND's defense was completely discombobulated and on its heels at that point and I think Shaw gave them an opportunity to find their footing by taking his foot off the gas pedal.  I think if Stanford had scored on either of those 3 and outs - even a FG - the game would have been over with a two-score lead.

I'm not saying "Fire Shaw" I'm just saying he made some very questionable decisions in the fourth quarter that exhibit a tendancy toward excessive conservatism late in the game.  Hogan bailed him out.  I'd really like to see him stick with what's working until the clock has wound down much further.

I hope it's not an issue next weekend and our boys take the Toejams to the woodshed early and often.  But something tells me they are in for a real battle.  This is not the same U$C team they faced in Week 3, but maybe Stanford isn't either.