So your telling me if someone was lined up on Prude that he still would have thrown it his way, I dont think so.
Perhaps you did not see where I included, "if he could throw to him" which would imply that he was open.
As opposed to the 17-7 hole we were in at the start of the 4th? The entire team was just going thru the motions. If not for the blocked field goal, the ball flying 700 feet into the air, and a waltz into the endzone, our hole would have been even deeper. The fake punt was an attmept to get some early momentum. It worked to an extent but the defense couldn't hold an ounce of water in a 5 gallon bucket. It was early in the game...we just had two dropped passes (scary in itself to be attempting another)...and it allowed the offense another set of downs to try and accomplish something and I saw nothing wrong with it.
So we have a new nickname for Miles.........The Bayou Gambler :hihi: He and Tubs must be good friends.
COramprat, if you are going to quote me either quote the entire post or at least quote the parts you do in context. In the very next sentence that you left out, I said I liked the call. Considering all the people who have provided genuine and constructive criticism of the play in this thread, it is strange that you take one section of my post out of context and then counter it when I was one of the few in agreement with you in the first place. It doesn't bother me, I just find it curious.
I've been miserable over that call all day and hoped, somehow, it was an error. The running back coach, Larry Porter, is on the LSU Sunday Night Live show right now and when the announcer said "That fake punt caught a lot of people by suprise," he responded "Yeah, including Les."
At the time I thought it was brilliant. Probably because it worked. Whether it was a called play or not I'm not sure, but consider this: as I recall this was the only punt we made all night that Chris Jackson lined up as the punter. Was that because we were deep in our own territory and he was our most experienced punter OR in watching films of the ASU-Temple game our coaches noticed that ASU was not covering the gunners on the line of scrimmage and that with Jackson they had someone with the skills to make such a play if indeed ASU left one of the gunners uncovered or punt the ball if they indeed covered the gunners. It may not have been a called play, but it may have been left to the personnel on the field to make the call if Prude was left uncovered. :yelwink2:
I wish they would have shown Miles' face right afterwards. I'm curious if he was a) shocked, b) excited or c) pissed.
Sometimes you line up the punter w/ the best hands and quickest kick to kick out the endzone...that is prob why he was in...and the reason he didnt come back in was b/c the coaches were probably pissed that he would take that gamble...i dont think it was a called play...now im sure we will see someone fake bringing 10 on us and then running out real quick to cover at sometime this season...just my thoughts
