[PrinceLightfoot]

FWIW - Shaw was in a tough situation.  If they run twice and don't convert EVERYONE screams that he always runs in those situations and everyone in the Pac-12 has come to expect that.  If they have two incompletions, then most of us scream that for once the situation called for power.

We scream when we run straight between the tackles on 1st and 10 on our 25 yrd line when they are stacking the box with 8 or 9 bodies three times in a row. Even in those situations we obtain 1-3 yards.

Since we had two plays to get a first down while being extremely close to the goalline, it is mind boggling we didn't push to first down then push it in for a TD. Let the QB call the subsequent plays if the lack of timeout or time are an issue (doubtful it was time since we had over a minute of clock) - its not hard to power it in with our muscle, yet we didn't even try.

[PrinceLightfoot]

FWIW - Shaw was in a tough situation.  If they run twice and don't convert EVERYONE screams that he always runs in those situations and everyone in the Pac-12 has come to expect that.  If they have two incompletions, then most of us scream that for once the situation called for power.

We scream when we run straight between the tackles on 1st and 10 on our 25 yrd line when they are stacking the box with 8 or 9 bodies three times in a row. Even in those situations we obtain 1-3 yards.

Since we had two plays to get a first down while being extremely close to the goalline, it is mind boggling we didn't push to first down then push it in for a TD. Let the QB call the subsequent plays if the lack of timeout or time are an issue (doubtful it was time since we had over a minute of clock) - its not hard to power it in with our muscle, yet we didn't even try.