Best Single Game Coaching Performance?

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I thought Brent Key and his staff may have had the best single game coaching performance in memory. With a starting QB who could only throw about 5 yards, having to play a true freshman 3rd teamer on crucial plays, with RB’s way down the depth chart running the ball, playing the nation’s 4th ranked team with their Heisman hopeful QB, and going up against an ACC refereeing crew clearly trying to protect the conference’s highest ranked team - they got the job done. The game plan was outstanding, adjustments in-game were sound, and Key stayed cool while still working the refs to give his players a chance. Outstanding!

CPJ’s first win in Athens was a great coaching job, but some pretty good players made some big time plays that day. Ross at UVA in ‘90 coached a great game. Dodd beating Bear at Grant Field was quite a coaching job. Pepper winning in Athens in ‘74 and against ND homecoming of ‘76 were great days for his staff. But, today may have been the best of all.
 
It’s funny.

Coach calls play X, play gets blown up, runner tacked in the backfield. Coach called a bad play and is an idiot.

Coach calls play X again, runner squeezes through a narrow seam, play goes for a nice gain. Coach called a good play and is a genius.
 
There were still some things that Brent does that drive me crazy. A weird timeout here and there or going super conservative offensively, like right after King’s big run at the end of the 1H.

But they definitely juggled the QB position very well and called a lot of good plays for Philo especially.

I would like to see us take a little more chance on a closeout drive like the one that ended with the 4th and 3 punt that game Miami their last chance. Not saying go for it on 4th, but be a little more creative to not get to 4th right there. That’s nitpicking though.
 
77GTFan said:
I thought Brent Key and his staff may have had the best single game coaching performance in memory. With a starting QB who could only throw about 5 yards, having to play a true freshman 3rd teamer on crucial plays, with RB’s way down the depth chart running the ball, playing the nation’s 4th ranked team with their Heisman hopeful QB, and going up against an ACC refereeing crew clearly trying to protect the conference’s highest ranked team - they got the job done. The game plan was outstanding, adjustments in-game were sound, and Key stayed cool while still working the refs to give his players a chance. Outstanding!

CPJ’s first win in Athens was a great coaching job, but some pretty good players made some big time plays that day. Ross at UVA in ‘90 coached a great game. Dodd beating Bear at Grant Field was quite a coaching job. Pepper winning in Athens in ‘74 and against ND homecoming of ‘76 were great days for his staff. But, today may have been the best of all.
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I thought before the game we would need to be +3 in TO margin to win. Those three 4th down conversion stops (essentially the same as three TOs) were amazing - they were all coverage stops - never in a million years did I think we had a chance to cover Miami's receivers - Restrepo is an NFL receiver playing in college.

Then, on Miami's first play, they throw a TD pass.

I still don't understand how we did it. Miami did not overlook us - they clearly came to win and played like it. Pretty sure we took their best shot.

One of the finest performances I've ever seen from our program.
 
00Burdell said:
I thought before the game we would need to be +3 in TO margin to win. Those three 4th down conversion stops (essentially the same as three TOs) were amazing - they were all coverage stops - never in a million years did I think we had a chance to cover Miami's receivers - Restrepo is an NFL receiver playing in college.

Then, on Miami's first play, they throw a TD pass.

I still don't understand how we did it. Miami did not overlook us - they clearly came to win and played like it. Pretty sure we took their best shot.

One of the finest performances I've ever seen from our program.
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I'll say this too... a lot of those throws by Cam were NFL level throws. Zipping an out route to the sideline on the wide side of the field like he did a few times was something to see. All three of his TDs were NFL throws/awareness. Without him, Miami wouldn't have even kept it close.
 
Tech keeping undefeated Notre Dame scoreless until giving up a tying field goal with under 5 minutes play to finish 3-3. That was a 1-7 Tech vs. 7-0 ND in 1980.
 
Underrated performance is the 2012 Sun Bowl with Charles Kelly taking over halfway through the season and pretty much shutting down that Lane Kiffin USC team that had a bunch of future NFL guys on their team.
 
So when Miami called the time out on the punt did we line up in a way to cause the concern about a fake or did they get paranoid and waste a
time out? I didn't see anything odd about out punt formation.
 
GTLiebs said:
I read somewhere they may of had 12 men on the field.
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It seemed like we were being a little weird (we had one guy kinda crouching down in the back of the “blob” before we moved into formation), but I didn’t get the vibe that we were actually going to fake it.

I also heard that they had an extra man on the field (the returner) and couldn’t get his attention to pull him off.

Having them burn that time out there ultimately didn’t matter, but it could have been big if we didn’t get the fumble.

JRjr
 
89Tex said:
It’s funny.

Coach calls play X, play gets blown up, runner tacked in the backfield. Coach called a bad play and is an idiot.

Coach calls play X again, runner squeezes through a narrow seam, play goes for a nice gain. Coach called a good play and is a genius.
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It is like poker hands. The long-term matters.
 
Beating va tech 49-28 with 465 yards all on the ground. Legendary defensive coordinator Bud Foster had no answer. Tobias Oliver the QB ran the ball 40 times. We were not a great team (3-4) but CPJ had the offense rolling that night for the blowout. VT was baffled with the blocking schemes.
 
Last week is very hard to beat.

Bobby Bowden at halftime going "it's like we don't know who to tackle" comes to mind, but the problem with picking any games from the CPJ era is he was usually winning by scoring every time he got the ball - defense was rarely a strong suit and he never did find the right defensive coordinator.

All that being said, I think the Orange Bowl win is the contender. Cam Ward *might* win the Heisman, but Dak Prescott has played on Sundays for many years, and Miss St was the best team in the SECW in 2014. And we didn't just win, we won convincingly. Unlike many of Chan's best games, you couldn't hang this 2014 win on one super-special player. Total team game.
 
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