Inside the game: ULM 31, Troy 30
November 06, 2008
Thanks to TrojanVision for the clips
The good: A 29-yard TD reception on a shovel pass to DuJuan Harris from Levi Brown. It gave Troy its last lead late in the fourth quarter.
Offensive coordinator’s take: It was 2nd and 4. We had trips to the right. What we wanted to do was sell pass, and QB takes a 3-step drop. You don’t want to run that into a blitz and they hadn’t blitzed much on second down. They did on that play. Levi did a great job of being patient with it. They blitzed two guys off the edge and he did a great job of being patient and letting the guys get by DuJuan before he shuffled the ball. The O-line did a great job of sorting it out. Danny Franks got enough of his man to spring DuJuan and he ran by the rest of them.
The bad: An INT on the 2-point play after Harris’ TD. Referees wouldn’t let Troy spot the ball where they wanted to and then called a flag for illegal substitution, meaing Troy had to score from the 8-yard line on one play. The pass was intercepted.
OC’s take: We had a little double boot call. It probably wasn’t a great play call but we thought they would play man and they played zone. One of our receivers had a little mixup on his route and didn’t run his route correctly.
The good: Donnell Golden’s second quarter INT and return to the ULM 18. It set up a Troy touchdown
Defensive coordinator’s take: He jumped up in the air and caught. He sank back and the QB tried to throw it right over his head and he jumped up and caught it. He didn’t have a threat, so he was just a low player right there. He made a heck of a catch.
The bad: A 13-yard TD pass from Kinsmon Lancaster to Frank Goodin. It put ULM up five in the third quarter.
DC’s take: It was a fake on the run. We were in a zone to the multi-receiver side and basically man to the tight end/flanker side. We had him covered up. The back carried out his fake and was hanging out over there. We had a little pressure and the QB started scrambling and he just went up the sideline. Our defensive end is supposed to be on him on that play and take him on the run and he’s supposed to control him at that point. Because of the formation and the way it ended up, our WILL backer is supposed to end up on him too. After a few play fakes, the QB was looking around and he was wide open.
We had two guys supposed to have him, but the QB scrambled and looked to him and was wide open. Whoever was supposed to have him was supposed to be on him regardless of what he was doing at that time.
