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The bad news: The play didn't work, as the punter's pass was intercepted. But that didn't dampen head coach Blake Anderson's outlook on the play called the "Fainting Goat."
“We were just having a little bit of fun to be honest with you,” Anderson told For The Win. “When you scare a goat, it faints. It was a joke.”
Anderson said the player, Booker Mays, practiced playing dead on the play all week and "did his part to a T." In the formation, Mays was an ineligible receiver and therefore couldn't run a route and catch a pass, so there wasn't much he could do on the play except for act like a decoy and try to confuse the defense.
“It really wasn’t going to be a critical part of the play, successful ot not,” Anderson told FTW. “It was just a distraction and mainly to have a good time with the kids. They’ve been through five head coaches in five years. Any chance we can laugh with them and have a good time with them I think will help us grow as a team."