While that was a bad call, Franklin’s reasoning is ass-backward. He said he should have run to put them in better position for the FG. Going for the field goal at all was stupid. Instead of going for it on 4th and 2, they rolled the dice on the FG. If they had run on fourth down, worst case scenario they turn it over and a MTSU FG wins. That happened anyway with the missed FG, which should have certainly been considered a possibility after how close the previous FG was to a miss. Best case scenario had they run, they convert for a 1st down and can run out the clock. If they made the FG, an MTSU TD still wins. As it happened, MTSU could have scored a TD, but kicked the winning FG instead. Terrible decision-making by MD.

Then, when MTSU was on the MD 2-yard line, instead of using one of their 2 timeouts, they let the clock run down from 30 seconds to 2 seconds. With 30 seconds left, they would have had time for a kick return by Torrey Smith and a few desperation plays. Instead, they totally relied on trying to block the FG. What was the reasoning behind that?

Horrendous play calling. I never was thrilled with making Franklin the HCIW. He only had one year under his belt as the OC, and had done okay, but certainly not covered himself in glory. The WCO just sucks in general. I just hope he hires a good OC when he takes the HC position.

I think Friedgen will be retiring after this season. Honestly, looking at the schedule, and what we’ve done to date, we could very easily end up as 1-11 or 3-9. And I’m not sure next year will be much better with the same linemen.