Amazingly stupid high school football decision

[T-Dog]

This was posted by someone I know from West Virginia on another forum.

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Our high school football season opened this week. Buckhannon-Upshur has been down for a few years....went 3-7 last season...we are hopeful for a 6-4 season this year.

We always open with one of the top local teams in the state...Bridgeport which made the state semi-finals last year with a 12-1 record.

We are up 7-0 with 90 seconds left and they bust a 33-yard touchdown run on a third and three play. Extra kick is good so its 7-7.

We take the kick-off...and the whole drive is a mess. A holding call, then an offsides, then the tailback runs into the quarterback taking a hand-off on a play.

B-U winds up with a 4th and 4 with 4.4 seconds left at their own 16. We take a time-out. We expect them to run out the clock some way. A punt out of bounds...the quarterback scrambles...throw a hail mary out of bounds.

They come out of the time out...in a tight formation and the quarterback takes a knee!!!!! ON 4th and 4!!!!!

What in the hell?

The other team kicks a 33-yard field goal at the buzzer and wins 10-7.

I have never seen anything like this in my life...

I hope to call our paper's sports editor and find out what the hell happened.

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Apparently the coach though the clock would still run. I've seen some stupid in high school football, but this might take the cake.

[DJH]

Sounds about right, for west virginians.

[tampajag]

Classic I don't see how they can win 6 games with that coaching :rotfl:

[clenz]

That sounds a little like Texas State circa 2005

[SuperHornet]

That sounds a bit close to their own end zone to do anything other than punt. A line drive punt away from the safety. Barring a miracle return, the teams would be looking at OT.

While I despise coaches calling most plays, fourth down and end-of-game decisions rise to the HC level. There's absolutely NO excuse for this stuff.

[bluehenbillk]

A friend of mine saw the replay of this game, if the coach wasn't ogling his sister in a miniskirt up in the stands they might've called the right play.

[SuperHornet]

A friend of mine saw the replay of this game, if the coach wasn't ogling his sister in a miniskirt up in the stands they might've called the right play.

[T-Dog]

The quotes from the coach.

"It was my fault. I really didn't think it was fourth down. I thought we still had another down thought we could take a knee "But then we yelled to run a play and the qb took a knee. I just asked him 'what did you think we said?'...And he goes "I thought you said 50...I said am yelling 32....but that's my fault."

[tampajag]

The quotes from the coach.

"It was my fault. I really didn't think it was fourth down. I thought we still had another down thought we could take a knee "But then we yelled to run a play and the qb took a knee. I just asked him 'what did you think we said?'...And he goes "I thought you said 50...I said am yelling 32....but that's my fault."

are you sure this isn't Les Miles? Sounds like his quote from the Ole Miss game.