I fully understand running the ball but just don't see running that many times into the teeth of their defense. You mean we can't get around the perimeter? Sometimes? Haven't been impressed with the play calling at all. we could have easily lost this game & I think that IS on the coach.
I never felt at any point like we might lose. I never feel that against Kentucky when we don't have a complete disaster coaching.
We keep having dumb, drive killing penalties in the red zone and scoring spots.
Second drive, Milton runs for a first down, but we get a hold that literally made no difference in the play. Went from 1st and 10 at the 12 to 3rd and 14 from the 28. Led to a fg.
Third drive we never made the redzone, but got a penalty on the OL that made it 3rd and 14. Ended up getting short yardage to get back into fg range.
Next FG we drove 59 yards in just over a minute but ran out of time.
The last fg the OL broke down and Milton got hit 5 yards in the backfield on 2nd down as he ran, and then got sacked on 3rd down.
The final drive, we were playing to burn time then kick a simple FG to go up 2 scores but it wasn't needed.
I didn't see any bad play calls really, just some bad penalties and execution down towards the scoring zone.
Milton was 18-21 and we ran for 250 while averaging 5 yards per carry. Clean up the OL breakdowns inside the Kentucky 30 and we probably score 42-49 points.