Sunday, November 4, 2007

Running up the score

According to http://espn.go.com the Kansas Jay Hawks won their football game 76-39, which is an absolute shootout. You don’t see that score everyday around the college football world. I think the last time that I saw a college football team score seventy points in one game was when the USC Trojans scored something like 72 points back when they one the national title in 2005. When should a team stop scoring so many points in a football game because in my opinion seventy points in one game is a little too much considering the fact that their opposing team had only scored 39. So, is the coach at fault here for running up the score a little too much or is the players fault. Maybe they didn’t try too run up the score that high and the fact that they are so good, because they are undefeated, they just tried not to score and did anyways. No one may never really know the reason besides the players and coaching staff of the team. But personally I think that the only person at fault here is the head coach himself. He has complete control of what happens in the game as far as his players go. I think that once you are by three or four scores you should slow down the pace of the game and start to run the ball instead of throwing the ball when you know you are about to win. If you score by just straight up running the ball just to milk the clock then so be it. But if you score more points just because you are passing the ball and you want to then I think that is totally wrong. So all in all yes there is a point when college football teams should stop running up the score because it will always come back to bite you if you don’t.

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