[Husker] Wisconsin's last play

[Nick Chevance]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:

> It appears that the Wisconsin QB either misunderstood the signal or tried
> to change
> their final play but didn't get that communicated to his teammates.
>
> According to their OC, the called play was a bootleg by Danny O'Brien, but
> he may have
> misread the signal or changed it based on what defense he saw.
>
> So if appeared to you that Montee Ball wasn't expecting to get the
> football, that's
> just what happened!
> --
> Mike Nolan
>

I got the impression that it was like buyer's remorse.  According to the
account I read (one of the Wisconsin papers?) I thought the QB said that he
understood the play but that something happened and the play blew up.
Maybe he handed off to Ball in hopes that Ball had a better chance of
making a yard than he was going to have going around end.  I'm going to
watch the replay and see exactly what happened.  The one replay I have seen
seems to show Whaley (I think) blowing up Ball before he took a single
step.  I want to see if the QB could have advanced the ball if he hadn't
"handed" it off.

Nick
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