Three years ago today...
- Thread starter WhatchaGonnaDo
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The way I remember it our tight end was all alone and nobody within 10 yards of him, and our backup punter sent a flutterball into the wind that got about halfway to our tight end, which is something you might expect from a backup punter who probably never thew a football in a real game (like Netten).
Never claimed to be a know it all, and I think my memory of that play is pretty accurate.
Would be great if somebody could link that play and everybody could see for themselves how wide open our tight end was, and what the pass looked like. I think it will show my memory is pretty accurate.
IIRC, it got halfway because it was intercepted. Ball would have hit him in the hands.
Paul's record at that point was pretty mediocre. A bowl season with players he didn't recruit, followed by a losing season, and then a season with a miracle upset to become bowl eligible. After the OSU game, the season flat out tanked.
Just re-watched it a couple of times. The tight end was running a short out and the ball was so badly underthrown he was trying to stop to get back to it when it was intercepted. I'm not blaming the kid who threw the pass, he's probably never thrown one in a game before. But any qb would have led the tight end, not thrown it behind him. Now let's replay Netten's pass from the Oky State game. And again I'm not blaming Netten for badly underthrowing his pass as I'm pretty sure he's never thrown a pass in a game as I saw a lot of his high school games, and he only kicked. Never saw him throw a pass on a fake field goal either, though I didn't see every Ankeny game.
