Hope Hatcher is happy he cost somene their job!
This is what I have been saying. It’s a bad call, but not THAT CATACLYSMIC. WE LET IT GET WORSE than a veteran team should. Glad to see I am on board w CCH. Let’s Quit whining and move on.FurmanATT wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:53 pmI just got back from Furman, and I'm still trying to figure out what else has been going on. I'm a little behind -- I'm always at least a little behind -- because I had planned to shoot a photo gallery at basketball practice but that fell through.
But I digress.
I think the officials' ruling ended up being based, the 2nd review and after that informal litigation with Chris Hatcher, on the original lousy call being technically non-reviewable. I think that was the technicality cited.
I told Clay today that after the game, I thought I was going to make him mad at me, but he answered my question before I asked it. The call was cataclysmic, but the Paladins shouldn't have been shattered by it. It's a veteran team, and Luke Clark said as much in a quote I used in my game story. Clay fell on the sword taking the blame for it.
Covering the team and caring about it can be a double-edged sword. There's the possibility of being too easy, but there's also the possibility of being too hard because one has an unreasonably high expectation sometime. I've been doing this a long time and feel as if I can view such matters with enough objectivity, but it's a hard call. I was glad I had a drive home to think about it. FurmanATT.com is geared to Paladin fans, and I think I'm playing it about right. I want Furman to win every game, and it ticks me off when it doesn't. Fortunately, I was in a foul mood all by myself.
That SoCon statement is about as strong as it's ever going to issue. It was an awful, game-changing embarrassment, but it didn't have to change the game as much as it did. I remember a game in the late '70s at VMI when Furman was rolling down the field and a Keydet player was seriously injured. The long delay took the wind out of the offense's sails, and the Paladins got stopped on downs because everything had just gone dead in the delay. I was thinking about that as the comedy of errors unfolded.
Clay said he almost had Coach Bernardi have the team warm up again while the summit meeting was still in progress on the opposite sideline.
I reckon there's no need to agonize further about that which one cannot control. I'm relatively sure the last time I was more stunned by something was a certain overtime shot in the SoCon basketball tournament. I remember when I got home late that night, my photo girl Friday, Elena Davidson, texted that she had "no words" and I texted back that unfortunately, I still had about 400 of them to write.
One would hope it would all even out, but I remember the words of a Midwestern stock car racing star, Bob Senneker, talking about another, Mike Eddy, with whom he had long feuded. He said if he tried to even the score on all the times Eddy had wrecked him, that's all he would ever do. -- MD
FYI you said you feared asking the question for fear of CCH getting mad. That’s junk. Pay me 300k you can literally ask me ANYTHING. ANYTHING. I would let you ask my wife personal questions for 300k a year. Lol. Let’s be real here. 300k or whatever covers a lot of sins.
Look I’ll give a factual point of data. Some say the 15 minute delay hurt our momentum. Like a timeout. I Don’t doubt that. At all. You know what may have hurt Samford?? Half-time. A forced TWENTY MINUTE stoppage. It was 20-17 then. Basically a new game. A Veteran team (us) should be able to come out with our heads on straight and basically play one half of football. Especially given a 20 minute time for the coaches to adjust and bust some noggins. “Get out of your funk” type stuff. . Two quarters. But we couldn’t. Third quarter starts . Sammy scores. We lay down. From 20-17 to 34-17. Game. Set. Match. Sammy came out firing and we were still on our heels. One drive on heels? Ok. One quarter? Eh, a little much. TWO QUARTERS of junk? For one bad call. With a half time mixed in so we can reset. NO WAY should a veteran team allow that. Ever
