Kirby Good doesn’t remorse his aggressive late first-half play-calling throughout Thursday’s loss to Notre Dame throughout the Faculty Soccer Playoff quarterfinal.
Moments after Bulldogs quarterback Gunner Stockton fumbled with 33 seconds left within the half, permitting the Preventing Irish to ultimately take a 13-3 lead on a Riley Leonard-Beaux Collins landing connection, the Georgia head coach defended his determination to attempt to put some extra factors on the board earlier than the second quarter’s finish.
“Well, I would say we tried to be aggressive in two minutes and probably regret it, right? Go to the half 6-3,” Good stated on the ESPN broadcast heading into halftime. “But we wanted to show confidence in our quarterback and let him go play, we didn’t get the block we needed to get and they made a good play.”
The play ended up being probably the most necessary within the recreation, permitting Notre Dame to take a two-score lead into the half in a recreation that Georgia couldn’t discover a method to get again into.
After the 23-10 loss, Good doubled down on his option to guess on his backup quarterback late within the second quarter.
“Typically, when you’re down, you need every possession you can have,” Good stated. “We made a decision that we were going to be aggressive and we were going to go two-minute. That’s what everything says you should do. You can’t give up possessions when you’re trailing.”
Stockton, who was making his first begin of the season, was taking part in rather than Carson Beck, who had season-ending elbow surgical procedure after hurting himself within the SEC championship recreation.
The 2024 season marks the second straight that Good’s Bulldogs fell wanting a nationwide title after profitable it in two straight seasons in 2021 and 2022.
Notre Dame will tackle Penn State within the CFP semifinal on Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Jap.
