What the $%*(@#*& is wrong with Joe Novak?!!?

[BGSU Falconz]

31 seconds left in the 4th, and they drive 50+ yards for a touchdown to make the game 37-38 and they go for the 2 point conversion instead of tying it up and going to overtime?

WTF was he thinking?!!!!!!!?!?!?!

[TG1996]

31 seconds left in the 4th, and they drive 50+ yards for a touchdown to make the game 37-38 and they go for the 2 point conversion instead of tying it up and going to overtime?

WTF was he thinking?!!!!!!!?!?!?!

That's the decision you gotta make.

I seem to remember another coach making that call in the same stadium about 4 years ago and it worked out pretty well.

http://bgsufalcons.collegesports.com/sp ... 01aaa.html

[BGSU Falconz]

31 seconds left in the 4th, and they drive 50+ yards for a touchdown to make the game 37-38 and they go for the 2 point conversion instead of tying it up and going to overtime?

WTF was he thinking?!!!!!!!?!?!?!

That's the decision you gotta make.

I seem to remember another coach making that call in the same stadium about 4 years ago and it worked out pretty well.

http://bgsufalcons.collegesports.com/sp ... 01aaa.html

That's way too much pressure to be putting on your offense in that situation, I don't give a crap what Urban Meyer thinks.

[TG1996]

That's way too much pressure to be putting on your offense in that situation, I don't give a crap what Urban Meyer thinks.

True, but if you kick the point, give up a TD on the first possession of OT, how much pressure is that? You're giving your offense the chance to score from 3 yards out, and I would be shocked if Horvath didn't have a voice in the decision, saying something like "Give me the ball coach, we're gonna win it."

Novak's brass cajones just come out a little more tarnished than Mrs. Meyer's Hubbies' did.

[NWLB]

He was nuts. Even if BGSU did it a few years ago, we had a good deal of time left on the clock and the ability to get the ball back if it didn't work. NIU had no such chance, and you have to know they have prepared for just such an event after what we did to them.

His offense was more than good enough to have gone to OT. It was a mistake and a waste of an opportunity.

This leaves OU with the best OOC win so far.

[Schadenfreude]

He was nuts. Even if BGSU did it a few years ago, we had a good deal of time left on the clock and the ability to get the ball back if it didn't work.

It was the last minute. It was, for all intents and purposes, the game.

[Warthog]

When you have a chance to win the game, you take it. Why the F*ck do you accept going to OT? That gives the other team a chance to win. I LOVED that call and would never question a coach who has teh balls to try to win a game rather just being happy to have made it to OT.

[MACMAN]

He was being smart and playing for the win!!!!!!!!
They realy had..it ...that kid must feel like crp today.

I had banked on them running ball in, they had been runing very well all night...
I am happy we dont play NIU this year....and I will Venture that they beat toledo this year....but Crp if we dont play them then..who...OU....it could happen if we dont get our cht together.

[Flipper]

Play to win....always.

[Schadenfreude]

The real shame in all of this is that Northwestern won't play Northern Illinois any more.

NIU offered to play two in Evanston for on in DeKalb. The Wildcats said no.

[orangeandbrown]

Let's say you have a 40% chance of making the 2-pointer? Who says your chances are that good in OT? I like it, I liked it when UM did it. One play, three yards. Could be as good a chance as you get.

[BGSU Falconz]

I still would like my chances better at a calmer, slower paced OT series than a single win or lose play.

[momtartin]

The real shame in all of this is that Northwestern won't play Northern Illinois any more.

NIU offered to play two in Evanston for on in DeKalb. The Wildcats said no.

Probably afraid of another Ohio-Pit situation

[kdog27]

Had they converted, everyone would be saying how great of a call it was. The game can be over just as fast in OT if you turn it over.

[Falconfreak90]

I still would like my chances better at a calmer, slower paced OT series than a single win or lose play.

I believe there is no such thing as a single win or lose play. Every play of the game has a chance to shape the outcome.

Personally? I loved the call. Novak played to win. It just didn't work out and that's the chance you take. There are no guarantees about the extra point either (as we know too well! ).
He played to win...I'd have it no other way.