re: Going for 2 when you score a TD down 14

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and all of a sudden a coach’s hit seat gets going.

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This is almost certainly the biggest reason coaches stick to conventional strategy, to simply avoid criticism.

Doing things the conventional way, the way they've always been done, shields you from the most criticism.

You can be completely correct in your strategy but if it's non-conventional and doesn't pan out, the dullards who don't understand simple probabilities and expected value calculations start hooting like gibbons.