FireBillDalke.com

I will first start off by saying that the dude called an excellent game against WFHS last night. Offensively he had their defense guessing all night. I think it was the best game that he has called since he came to Burkburnett. But........what in the world is he thinking? He gave up on the game. Punting the ball late with less than two minutes to play and only 1 timeout, that's waving the white flag in a situation you don't need to. I have a few different options that should have been thought out.





a. You could have completed a long pass, kept the drive going, and possibly won the game, which after all is the point.





b. You could have attempted a long pass, gotten a pass interference call on it, kept the drive going, and possibly won the game, which after all is the point.





c. You could have attempted a long pass, had it fall incomplete, lost the game, but lose the game, without having quit the game.





d. What about take a safety, go down by 6 points, regain a huge amount of field position, and then try the onside kick. This one I'm not sure of, but I think you can still kick an onside kick off of a free kick. I will have to Google that later.





What he did here is the equivalent to resetting the Nintendo when you are down and you just don't want to have the clock run out and lose. It's easier to give up than to actually see a loss unfold right there in front of you.





The bad thing was, we played really really good, and he coached a very smart game. Our kids outplayed a bigger school, and honestly, had our offensive line not had to go both ways, we wouldn't have worn down and lost that game. I feel like we are the better team, they just have more kids and wore us down.





I could have left that stadium feeling really good about our team, playing a great game against a really good 4a school, instead I was left with a very sour taste in my mouth. This seems to be a trend with Bulldog football lately. Much like last season, we started out strong and outplayed a bunch of people, only to watch ourselves self destruct at the end. If you are worse at the end of the year than you are at the beginning of the year, then you have to look at who is leading your team.





I would like to end this in saying, that I think Dalke is a good coach, and that if given the right opportunity, he could lead a team deep into the playoffs. I just have to wonder when a person has been given enough chances. Mack Brown survived that fire and brimstone handed out by legions of "Orangebloods", but can Dalke? It paid out in the end for Brown, I hope that the same goes for Dalke and the Bulldogs.