The Day After: Assessing The Wisconsin Loss

One question, though: I know this is a precarious position, but should the Sun Devils have gone for two at the end of the game?

In all honesty I was screaming at my bro-in-law cause he wanted to go for two. I said the right play was to kick the PAT, play good defense and have a chance to win, but at the worst have the tie. Then Armageddon struck.

My beef with everything is when you’re stuck at 4m left, with an offense that has been taking 2-4 minutes to move why in the hell don’t you start using the timeouts then. I felt the defense needed the extra breaths in-between the snaps and if we’re going to play the “what-if” game then that’s where I’m putting my eggs. You get a three-and-out instead of the crap that became the final four minutes then you have the game in your hands instead of what transpired.

Hell, if so many plays are not missed (first FG, runback before half, dropsies and incomplete passes on TD chances) you guys win running away. We’re talking about how ASU is back with HC DE’s tutelage at this point instead of commiserating about the loss.

This will either do one or two things (the loss). Either this team realizes they are a middle tier team in the PAC-10 with a chance to shake a lot of things up, or they quit and the rest of this year will be abysmal.

Wear your gold; be loud; be there next Saturday. This team needs a 12th man to carry them over the hump against the class of the PAC-10. Hell, if you get going you might have this Bama fan losing his voice Saturday when it’s all said and done.

…oh, and don’t give up on this team. They’ve not given up on you.

I know it wasn’t a great angle or anything — but you have to freaking make that FG in the first half. If we can’t rely on our kicker to make a FG from under 30 yards we aren’t going to win anything.

I will say this — my confidence in this team is soaring. I don’t know if we’re good enough to beat Oregon (probably not) — but I just get the feeling that if this team starts to get some of the breaks they haven’t gotten for the last 2 years an upset like that COULD happen.

Can’t wait to start Pac-10 play.

I know this is a precarious position, but should the Sun Devils have gone for two at the end of the game? It’s hard to tell, but looking back on the game, one has to wish that ASU would have risked the tie for the win.

It’s easy to look back and say they should have gone for 2 when they just lost by a blocked kick.
But it was the right decision at the time.
We were winning throughout the game, take the easy point, win in overtime.
No need to risk it all on one play.

I was very proud to be a Sun Devil fan this weekend in Madison. Make no mistake about it, we beat Wisconsin all over the field except for the only thing that matters. ASU looked so much faster than Wisconsin it was amazing. I thought I would pass along some of the things that I kept hearing over and over again from Wisconsin fans.

1. They couldn’t believe how many fans from Arizona came up. They said for a non-conference game there were more ASU fans than they can remember with any other team.
2. We beat them – Heard multiple times after that game that WI was so lucky to come away with a win. They felt they were beat pretty bad.
3. Speed – They were really amazed with the speed and athleticism of ASU, especially at the skilled positions.
4. Threet – People kept talking about how Threet looked so good as our QB and that he looked like a big time qb.
5. During halftime I was walking around and some old guy decked out in Wisconsin gear was walking around shouting, “can anyone down here play special teams. We need people to play special teams, somebody go help our team.” It was pretty funny.

I really hope the Sun Devil fans come out in full force this weekend against Oregon. They will need a packed stadium.