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Pete Sampson here with Tim Prester and Tim O'Malley a couple days after Nortem's 24-22 loss at Clemson,

and there is a lot of meat on this bone, guys.

So, I mean, let's just start with the coaching decisions, because I think it's decisions that the staff made not necessarily on the field of play where there are fumbles and craziness and variables and all that stuff.

It's just, it's stuff that was decided on the sidelines. Brian Kelly's in charge of that. He's the face of the program. So let's start with the first two-point conversion. Go for it, not go for it. I was next to both of you in the press box. I already know the answer to this. But, Tim, what, I mean, you were saying this before the play. Yeah, and I think it's important we bring this up because Brian Kelly addressed Sunday.

You know, you guys have the benefit of hindsight.

That's true that everybody's been talking about.

There was five of us in the same area in this press box.

And as the two-point play was obviously going to happen, Pete stood and, or Pete was staring at the field in disbelief.

Tim put his pen down.

I put my hands in my face. And two unnamed colleagues literally said, what the hell is he doing? So it's not second-guessing in this point. And listen, this is not like Northwestern where it was mathematically wrong, we can all prove it. There are two sides of the story. We understand why he did it. He explained why he did it post-game and Sunday. Here's the problem. The theory is

wrong. The theory is flawed, and I'm afraid they'll do it again. There's 14-13 left. You say, I think

we'll get three possessions. That's fine. They got four that you, I would think you would get four

because of using timeouts, and if you're going to come back, the game gets extended. But let's say

you still get three possessions. It totally ignores the fact that Clemson is getting three possessions.

And they are fully capable of on one of those three drives, either getting a short field

or putting together a five-play, 50-yard drive and kicking a field goal, which destroys your

decision to get within 10 points. It's so short-sighted to go for two points when there's 14 minutes left in a game. I was driving here today trying to figure out when do you have to do it if there's 14 minutes left, and I came up with 35 to 3. If it's 28 to 3, no, let's listen. Now hear me out, just to point this out. 28 to 3, you still... I still would kick it. You know why?

It's 28 to 3.

You score a touchdown.

It's 28 to 9.

You still assume they're getting a field goal, which would make it 31 to 9 instead of 31 to 10. You have to extend the game. And as Pete said, I don't want to steal yours. What pressure are you putting on Clemson? by we're going to get this X, we're going to get this two-point conversion right here

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