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November 15th, 2005, 03:03 AM
“The only thing that could happen that would keep us from getting in would be that they bring a team with either three losses or four losses ahead of us,” Pough said Monday. “Although there are some teams of that kind, I don’t think there’s enough of them in place for us to be totally out of the picture.”
At the same time, Pough insists on taking “the high road” when it comes to presenting the Bulldogs’ case for postseason inclusion rather than the tactics taken recently by some of his Division I-AA head coaches of publicly “campaigning” for a playoff bid at the expense of other schools.
“These guys get a lot of pressure on them,” he said. “They start feeling like they’ve got to hold on to their job security and that kind of stuff by getting into the playoffs and that kind of stuff. So they go out and make rash kind of statements that they would not normally take. We feel like last year we were 9-2 and did not feel good about how we were playing at the time. But we didn’t say one word about the fact that we didn’t get in because we were men about it because maybe those teams were better than us, they’re healthier than us, they could do a better job in the playoffs.
“But now the shoe is on the other foot, okay, and we feel like we are good enough to be in it. We feel like we are good enough to be in. We think that we’re playing great on defense and that we’ve got a good team and that we deserve to get in and I think it’s time for them now to show the same kind of discretion that we did when we were in the same situation.”
http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2005/11/15/sports/doc43795794a5cc5247508656.txt
At the same time, Pough insists on taking “the high road” when it comes to presenting the Bulldogs’ case for postseason inclusion rather than the tactics taken recently by some of his Division I-AA head coaches of publicly “campaigning” for a playoff bid at the expense of other schools.
“These guys get a lot of pressure on them,” he said. “They start feeling like they’ve got to hold on to their job security and that kind of stuff by getting into the playoffs and that kind of stuff. So they go out and make rash kind of statements that they would not normally take. We feel like last year we were 9-2 and did not feel good about how we were playing at the time. But we didn’t say one word about the fact that we didn’t get in because we were men about it because maybe those teams were better than us, they’re healthier than us, they could do a better job in the playoffs.
“But now the shoe is on the other foot, okay, and we feel like we are good enough to be in it. We feel like we are good enough to be in. We think that we’re playing great on defense and that we’ve got a good team and that we deserve to get in and I think it’s time for them now to show the same kind of discretion that we did when we were in the same situation.”
http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2005/11/15/sports/doc43795794a5cc5247508656.txt