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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.

I don't know if decision-making authority depends on the offensive style.  But if you're right, then I definitely think BG should not be the starter this week.  Wouldn't trust a doctor with poor situational awareness.  But on the other hand, I don't trust an OC who doesn't see the situation at two minutes.  And the HC should be catching on to this and talking to the OC immediately, or taking charge.  The goal is to win games as a team.

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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.

I don't know if decision-making authority depends on the offensive style.  But if you're right, then I definitely think BG should not be the starter this week.  Wouldn't trust a doctor with poor situational awareness.  But on the other hand, I don't trust an OC who doesn't see the situation at two minutes.  And the HC should be catching on to this and talking to the OC immediately, or taking charge.  The goal is to win games as a team.