It's Called Innovation - Cornell Decided To Try And Change The Game By Having Its Quarterback Punt On 3rd Down (It Didn't Work)

This is the kind of forward thinking you see from Cornell. A long 3rd down against a ranked Harvard team? The only answer is to surprise them with a quick punt from the quarterback. I see what they were trying to do. Had Harvard crowding the line, probably thinking a draw to just pick up yards, instead you quick kick it and flip the field. Slight problem when it doesn't work out like it did here and you don't flip the field and quit on a drive. I don't know how the offense goes along with this. Again, I get the reasoning, but don't you want to compete? Don't you want to say, coach we can get a flag, we can get 26 yards, let me throw that pigskin. 

Then again, there's a reason Cornell is 0-4 (and lost this game by 24). You can't be punting on 3rd down. Again, I'm all for trying new shit out, trick plays and making football fun again. No one wants a surprise punt on 3rd down. You can't just quit on a drive, not with how refs throw flags for PI these days. 

Only an Ivy League team would do this. I know people would say Iowa or Big 10 football, but to be the first it had to be the nerds. You can't do this in big boy football until you see the reaction after it happens somewhere else first. Gotta know what the analytics said here, probably broke the computer.