Why didn’t Stoops take the penalty instead of allowing Ole Miss to make a FG?
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Ugh. I’ve said it time and time again.
You make the kicker kick a 53 yarder there every time.
you don’t let them redo 3rd and get any closer or god forbid convert and maybe turn it into 7 instead of 3.
kicker hit a hell of a kick and good on him. But yeah making them kick a 53 yarder for 3 points was a definite win for the D.
on the flip side you may stop them after the penalty and they may be out of FG range and you get a punt. Likely they pin you deep there as well….. but that’s not a chance you take in that position. Defense won and only gave up 3 which took a 50+ yard FG to do.
some of you never played and don’t really understand football. And that’s okay but I’ve really heard some bad takes yesterday and today and a lot of them have something to do with this situation.
You make the kicker kick a 53 yarder there every time.
you don’t let them redo 3rd and get any closer or god forbid convert and maybe turn it into 7 instead of 3.
kicker hit a hell of a kick and good on him. But yeah making them kick a 53 yarder for 3 points was a definite win for the D.
on the flip side you may stop them after the penalty and they may be out of FG range and you get a punt. Likely they pin you deep there as well….. but that’s not a chance you take in that position. Defense won and only gave up 3 which took a 50+ yard FG to do.
some of you never played and don’t really understand football. And that’s okay but I’ve really heard some bad takes yesterday and today and a lot of them have something to do with this situation.
Yeah , it was the right thing to do ... turned out perfectly . LOL . I was thinking " screaming " TAKE THE PENALTY .. they were already 3rd and very long ( right ?) you push them way back and avoid the opportunity for them to score . History shows it was a terrible choice , and while todays suckers enjoy rewriting history I'm not on board with it .
Yep. It would have been 3rd and 33 and they would have been out of FG range.
I’ve seen coaches take the penalty in that situation before to move a team out of FG range. And with a lot less yards to go than Ole Miss would have had. Do those coaches understand football?
I still think Stoops needs a common sense guy standing next to him on the sidelines. If your defense can’t stop them on 3rd and 30 then we have no business winning that game. Take the penalty and honestly they probably run it to force you to burn a timeout.
Stoops always makes a couple blunders every game.
Stoops always makes a couple blunders every game.
Holder didn’t even have a great snap to work with and still got it down and the kicker did his thing. Great execution. With all the mistakes we had yesterday, blocked XP, botched XP, missed 39 yard straight away chip FG, an ILL advised safety, 2 red zone turnovers, tripped up own player preventing a TD, etc, we still only lost by 3 on the road in the SEC. Not a moral victory by any means but a testament to how far the program has come. Still let’s not forget the injuries we are still dealing with to key players. Disappointed with the loss but still lots to play for this year.
Do you understand that we routinely let teams convert big gains on 3rd and long over and over and over again. We play a soft zone trying to keep you from hitting the over the top plays. We are legitimately terrible at 3rd and long.
maybe the very least we play prevent and just do our best to keep you out of a conversion but if we give back 18-20 yards there now it’s a easier FG.
My assessments are based on the way KY plays defense. Not anyone else’s so anyone else’s call doesn’t really matter.
If I had the GA or Bama defense I probably push them out of range and make them earn it.
Problem is they wouldn’t earn it against us. We would give them the 15 or 20 yarder and be happy that we stopped them 10 short and gave up a FG anyways assuming Lane doesn’t go for it.
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He was asked this in the postgame interview. He said he thought with the guy kicking in the wind they’d be okay. Also thought Ole Miss would go for on one fourth down.
i think he was right. Exchanging FG for TDs wouldn’t have worked out for Ole Miss if UK didn’t get 0 points from the lasts two RZ possessions r
i think he was right. Exchanging FG for TDs wouldn’t have worked out for Ole Miss if UK didn’t get 0 points from the lasts two RZ possessions r
53 yarder into a stiff wind and the kid got all of it. Sometimes you just tip your hat.
I’m not questioning Stoops on this. Given the long yardage and the fact the kicker was 5/7 beyond 50 yards you could make a case for taking the penalty here. I don’t think either decision would have been “wrong” though. It’s a judgement call the coach has to make in only a few seconds. But for some clown to act like you don’t understand football if you don’t agree with them on it is pretty hilarious actually.
I’m of the mind college kickers are erratic so I’d always prefer putting the onus on them.
I think it also told us Stoops trusts his offense to score afterwards and they had two great chances just didn’t finish.
This. You take your chances on that every time. They just made it. No issue at all with the decision
There was no stiff wind . Stop rewriting history . I was there . .. you turn down 3rd and 33 to offer up a kick to guy thats > 50 % on 50. yard attempts . It was a TERRIBLE decision .
