What did we have to lose? By the start of the 4th qtr, we were behind by 24.
Treon couldn't score 24 points against a 3-9 FAU team.
I totally agree and it's one of my main reasons for souring on McElwain. What's the worst thing that could have happened? Michigan (or FSU, or Alabama) score a pick six? At that point in the game we weren't coming back. Or he could have simply put in Grady or Guy for a series or two to calm Treon down. I know it's okay around here to "bash" Treon, but he was thrown to the wolves and I have a hard time believing that any of our walk-ons would have done much worse (again, how much worse could it have been?). All of our walk-ons were experienced and recruited HS QBs (by smaller schools). If McElwain and Nussmeir are such great coaches (which we keep hearing about) why couldn't they prepare one of these backups to get in the game?
That was last season and I'm ready to move on w/ what we have, but it still disgusts me the way we finished the season....and that 112th ranked offense. Honestly, the last 6 games of the year you could have convinced me Will Muschamp was still our coach.