Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Winning, Losing and the Scoreboard

Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops through in the towel with 2 mins to go against Mizzou. Down by 9, and rather than risk giving up another 7, he punted on 4 & 10. Essentially, that punt was equal to saying, "we give up." Or is it.

For Stoops, he made a rare admission that the polls and ranking system played into his decision. Losing by 9 is better than losing by 16 and he realized 2 scores was impossible given the remaining time.

TWO QUESTIONS:
1) What would you have done in your respective sport? Give in or go for it?

2) Was it a breach of character to essentially give up?

What's you opinion.

Think about it.

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