[Husker] OT win

[Aaron Wolfson]

Yeah, ISU must have thought the value of knowing how many points you need to
score was more important than the wind.

Aaron


2010/11/7 Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net>

> Ahh, I see.  In that case, I don't know, but conventional wisdom is to go
> 2nd.  It gives you the option of just kicking the FG of you stop the other
> team, or going for two if they don't.
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "David Strong" <gbrlist at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, Nov 7, 2010 9:39 am
> Subject: [Husker] OT  win
> To: "huskers" <husker at tssi.com>, "Ken Oliver" <ksterling at mindspring.com>,
> "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net>
>
>
> Yes, I know that we intentionally chose which end of the field.  My
> question is why didn't they?  They won the toss and could have chosen which
> end of the field to use and then we would have chosen offense of defense.
> They either didn't think about it or they just decided that the choice of
> defense, the standard first choice, was the right way to go.
>
> Dave
>
> --- On Sun, 11/7/10, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:
>
> From: Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] OT  win
> To: "David Strong" <gbrlist at yahoo.com>, "huskers" <husker at tssi.com>, "Ken
> Oliver" <ksterling at mindspring.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010, 10:33 AM
>
> I'm actually quite certain that was done intentionally.  With our ground
> game going pretty well, and their ineptitude going against the wind and
> their questionable kicker, it seemed like the obvious voice to me.
>
> --
> Skylar
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "David Strong" <gbrlist at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, Nov 7, 2010 5:28 am
> Subject: [Husker] OT  win
> To: "huskers" <husker at tssi.com>, "Ken Oliver" <ksterling at mindspring.com>
>
>
> I was thinking the same thing before OT started.  I hoped we would lose the
> toss.  But then they put up a graphic that said the winner of the toss could
> choose either "offense, defense, or end of field."  I didn't know that.
>  They chose the standard answer "defense".  But since IS clearly was a
> better team with the wind, wouldn't it have been better to have chosen "end
> of field" this time?
>
> Dave
>
> --- On Sun, 11/7/10, Ken Oliver <ksterling at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Ken Oliver <ksterling at mindspring.com>
> > Subject: [Husker] OT  win
> > To: "huskers" <husker at tssi.com>
> > Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010, 3:40 AM
> > Strange as it sounds, the game may
> > have been won at the coin toss before OT.  When NU lost
> > the toss there, either from confusion or by accident, the NU
> > captain made the choice to play the first OT session going
> > into the wind.
> >
> > After watching the fake multiple times, I am convinced that
> > the ISU player was open enough to make that play if the toss
> > had been with the wind.
> >
> > I guess it was NU's turn to have something good happen.
> >
> >  .
> >
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