Re: Coach O\'Brien deserves an apology
First, it doesn't matter what plan you have, when the players obviously don't care as much as Duke, nothing is going to work.
That being said, Gailey needs to wake up and change a little bit.
When you are down by 17 points, not to have a shotgun for your quarterback is asinine. They guy has already had two balls batted down and been forced to throw sidearm a couple of times because of height. Why not let him see the field a bit?
Then again, down by three scores with no timeouts and less than seven minutes to play and we call two straight off tackle handoffs? Is that throwing in the towel or just plain stupid?
Yes, he's a freshman, but we aren't as bad as Army so why develop an offense that can't come from behind. Besides, if there was a ever a time to try something new, this was it (except maybe vs. Georgia's third string last year).
Everybody takes the blame on this one - including Gailey.