[Goose]

Agree on all five.  But Shaw doesn’t believe in forcing the issue.  He only will go for two when he has to.  His words, not mine.  So it was in character. And expected.  As was Kelly going for 2.

Shaw made it clear he would prefer to kick the extra point until he can't do so by rule. He will only go for 2 when he has to. Kelly going for 2 was driven significantly (if you take him at his word) because he was running out of bodies. In other words, his ability to play "the long game" was degrading on each series faster than Stanford's was. It can be argued that when a team reaches that point, one "has to" go for 2. I think there is no question that we had momentum. We had just come back from the dead and clearly "believed". I think that if Shaw felt the same way about his team's capabilities, he would do the same. It was "now or never" for UCLA.

[Goose]

Agree on all five.  But Shaw doesn’t believe in forcing the issue.  He only will go for two when he has to.  His words, not mine.  So it was in character. And expected.  As was Kelly going for 2.

Shaw made it clear he would prefer to kick the extra point until he can't do so by rule. He will only go for 2 when he has to. Kelly going for 2 was driven significantly (if you take him at his word) because he was running out of bodies. In other words, his ability to play "the long game" was degrading on each series faster than Stanford's was. It can be argued that when a team reaches that point, one "has to" go for 2. I think there is no question that we had momentum. We had just come back from the dead and clearly "believed". I think that if Shaw felt the same way about his team's capabilities, he would do the same. It was "now or never" for UCLA.