Mark WiedmerHow much you enjoyed many of the weekend’s sports moments probably depended on whether or not your rooting interests won or lost.
Regardless of whom you cheered or jeered, this will almost assuredly go down as one of the more memorable sports weekends ever, especially for University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football fans, who found out second-year coach Tom Arth wasn’t afraid to risk all to win all.
Most of the sports world will little note nor long remember Arth going for two points after pulling within one of The Citadel at the conclusion of both teams’ opening possessions of overtime Saturday night in Charleston, South Carolina.
Had the move backfired, had the Bulldogs stopped the reverse to wide receiver Bryce Nunnelly that became a tw0-point pass to Jordan Giberti for the game-winner, the UTC coach would certainly have felt the disappointment of Mocs Nation.
But that sort of decision is also what often separates good coaches from great ones. A lot of success in sport may be about raw talent, and which side has more of it. But it’s also often about feel, an innate since of when to throw caution to the wind and when to leave the gambling for another day.