Four and a half minutes left in the game. Oregon has the ball on Stanford's one yard line, first and goal, down 13 with no time outs. Oregon runs THREE running plays that net minus 10 or 15 yards before scoring with just about 2 mins left on the clock on a fourth down do or die desperation pass. Stanford recovers the onside kick and doesn't even need a first down to run out the clock. If Les had pulled that crap.......
Watching the game last night, the Oregon sidelines were filled with players acting like little bitches by crying and shit as the game unfolded, especially around the beginning of the 4th quarter. It was worse than Dez Bryant's meltdown against Detroit a couple of weeks ago (well, that's a hyperbole, perhaps.) Guys, say whatever you want about Miles' LSU Tigers, but I don't see our guys acting like THAT when the chips are down. Oregon was not prepared for that game, and Shaw and Stanford did a great job. Again, if Miles were to leave LSU, the man at the top of my list of replacements would be Shaw. The thing is...would he leave Palo Alto to live in Baton Rouge? Doubtful.
Yeah, I doubt he would leave Stanford as well, but he would be my first choice as well. I want someone to come in here and run a "traditional" offense and smash while maintaining our usually strong d. That style is just a bad match-up for the spread o which tends to use smaller o-linemen. They've lost 2 games in 2 years and both have been to the Cardinal.
Not sure I have seen a more important first drive by an offense in my entire life. To get down inside the 5, forego a FG and try it for it 4th down. Once they were shot down, they had to have had memories of 2012 come flooding back in just a bit.
