Beamer

Beamer was off yesterday. For the past 24 hours or so I've thought something else external to football was bugging him.

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As former military I can guarantee you that I would prefer a leader that kept his cool and didn't lose it than a overly emotional man.

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To quote/praphrase the venerable Rudyard Kipling...

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If you can keep your head when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

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you want a stoic coach who is calm and non reactive there is zero wrong with that. We did score right after that and I

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Never said stoic. He can get mad and get the team pumped but running on the field and having to be restrained because another coach taunted you is not what I would expect from the Head man. People follow their leader and going into battle being flipped out mentally is a script for failure.

I guess you would have had to be in the military to understand where I'm coming from.

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Should just learn to kick/punt the fricking ball and stop trying to outsmart everyone on ST because of his last name.
2. I generally like that he's emotional and you can tell he really cares about his players and the team. But that game it looked more like he let IL/Bert get in his head and that absolutely cannot happen as an HC.

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He has had the "Beamer Ball" drilled in his head he thinks it's mandatory to do something stupid every game. If we would have taken the 2 field goals we would have won.

If you lose you mind and run on insane anger you will make mistakes. It's the exact reason the Jedi won out over the Sith in the end.

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In his defense, Herrera has been an adventure this year. I don't blame Shane's lack of confidence in his PK.

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Sure, but statistically Herrera would've probably gotten at least one of those and would've changed the complexion of the game.

And it's not just Herrera. Think of all the other fakes we've done with punts and KOs. I don't mind a good fake, I just feel like we overdo it because it's like some kind of Beamer calling card.

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The fake to Tonka was there Kroger just threw a bad ball

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absolutely. the play call was great. It probably should have been PI potentially.

^^ I think you're both right. I don't have a problem with the call in a bowl game because it's supposed to be fun. But SOS is right that the smart play it to take the points.

Both games this year where "Beamer ball" bit us in the butt had the same thing in common. Both of the "trick plays" happened early in the game. Vs Ole Miss, I don't think there was a single person that DIDN'T know we were going to try a fake punt. The turnover on downs ended up spiraling out of control for the rest of the game.

I think the point I'm trying to make here is that going forward Beamer should try to get a little insurance in the bank before getting cute...

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I like Beamer and his energy is what is needed in today's game, but he needs to mature a bit and get his emotions under control. The fake vs Ole Miss was incomprehensible. It felt like he was trying to win a dick showing contest with Kiffin and he lost. We had a great defense; play the field position game. Instead, he handed the ball to an explosive offense with a short field and it had a major impact on the game for the players and fans. Bielema played him like a fiddle.

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going at him for the ole miss game is more than fair.

but we scored after bert came over and taunted us. I still don't think anything in that game was wrong. The kids just didnt make the plays but the calls were there...even the fake FG was there. The kids were put in a position to succeed and just didnt. It happens.