Tubby won 76% of his games at UK – 75% with a mixture of his players and leftovers (1998 thru 2002) and 77% with his own players (2003 thru 2007).

You cannot win 77% of your games unless you have recruited good players. He did. At Tulsa, Georgia, and Kentucky. And still does. At Minnesota.

I am with you….. barely. At the time I also felt it was best not to take a chance. It hasn’t been mentioned that the injury timeout ran just under 20 minutes. I was terrified that Weber would pass and that the time out would have negatively impacted his or a receivers timing or focus. In retrospect, throwing a very short, high percentage pass to get back in the groove would have made sense. Then, a decision could have been made.

All that said, I think those who see this decision as a 100% Brewster error are wrong. Its a close call. If Weber had thrown an interception, or worse – if a freshman receiver had bumbled a ball and it ended up in the hands of a defender, these same complainers would be screaiming that anyone knows after a long injury time out that the coach should protect the lead and take it to halftime.

Tough decision. I am not going to use this instance as a reason to find fault with Brewster.

make the right decision. I actually disagreed with him both on this decision, and his decision at the end of the Northwestern game…and here’s why. We were expected to win the Northwestern game, and it was at home, and if we sit on the ball there, we can take our chances in overtime. The chances were slim that we would’ve moved the additional 40-45 yards we needed in less than a minute, and it was just too risky to try to advance in our own half of the field, especially in a tie game.
Conversely, we were 2-TD underdogs against Wisconsin, we were moving the ball with ease through most of the first half, and the reward of going into halftime with a 17- or 21-point lead was more than worth the risk of giving up a FG or TD against a team we were supposed to lose to anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like either call was cut-and-dried…both were coin flips, and he just happened to pick the wrong side of the coin both times. It definitely cost us the NU game, and might’ve cost the Wisconsin game as well.

What we are expected to do means everything in the world. You’re telling me you wouldn’t play a little riskier against Ohio St than Montana St? In games you’re expected to lose, you need to take chances to try and mitigate the disparity in talent, homefield advantage, etc., etc. Not to mention the fact that Wisconsin was sure to play with more emotion in the second half after seeing their teammate taken off the field in an ambulance.