re: Why Poole over Carson?

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Couch said Poole is a strong passer and had a good chance of passing the ball into the zone.

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I heard that comment... Not trying to be mean, or to act smarter than the coach, but that statement did not compute. She says some things from time to time that really confuses me.

It seems like she's intent on being the contrarian. When the team plays great, she usually finds something to nitpick (like most coaches), but when they play poorly, she just heaps praise on the other team, and pretends that her team didn't make tons of mistakes. She also said Tennessee should have been ranked because of their schedule, but the problem is that pretty much all of those good teams have beaten Tennessee. The only game they've won against a team that has been ranked at any point, from what I see, is Colorado. They weren't ranked at the time, but were in the poll at one point.

So as much as I respect her as a coach and person, I tend to take her answers with a grain of salt. I think she's trying to either motivate, or protect her players. There's no other way for me to make sense of some of the things she says.