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Botching the endgame clock management, inexplicably shying away from a successful offensive strategy late game with the game pretty much still in question...a winning coaching staff does not make such poor decisions.  A lot of priors are going to have to be changed to fix bad decision-making on the part of the coaches.  Can old dogs learn new tricks?

This may be a dumb question, but with a pro-style offense isn't the QB given a lot of decisionmaking ability in terms of whether to pass or run?  Could the problem be that Reich gave too much authority to Gulbranson (and that Gulbranson just didn't exercise that authority well)?  If so, that seems like something that can be fixed. This was a 0 week game, the first ever college game coached by Reich, and it was Gubranson's first game ever running a pro-style offense. Both seem more like new dogs to me.  Lot of tricks to learn.

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Botching the endgame clock management, inexplicably shying away from a successful offensive strategy late game with the game pretty much still in question...a winning coaching staff does not make such poor decisions.  A lot of priors are going to have to be changed to fix bad decision-making on the part of the coaches.  Can old dogs learn new tricks?

This may be a dumb question, but with a pro-style offense isn't the QB given a lot of decisionmaking ability in terms of whether to pass or run?  Could the problem be that Reich gave too much authority to Gulbranson (and that Gulbranson just didn't exercise that authority well)?  If so, that seems like something that can be fixed. This was a 0 week game, the first ever college game coached by Reich, and it was Gubranson's first game ever running a pro-style offense. Both seem more like new dogs to me.  Lot of tricks to learn.