Regardless, I’ll defer to the former HOF players on the NFL Channel (Faulk, Sanders, Irvin) and the numerous former and current NFL players tweeting what a stupid, boneheaded call that was by Carroll.
As I recall, Carroll had Reggie Bush on the bench on a critical 4th and 1 in the 2005 Rose Bowl which they didn’t convert and ended up losing by 3 pts., so this isn’t a first for him.
"Only three things can happen when you pass and two of them are bad." -- Woody Hayes