PVT
I liked your last response! Your early post was a perfectly reasonable question about EMAS - I'm sure nfnm was having a bad day and is not usually so aggressive/rude.
I suspect the crew may well have realised all was not well during the take-off, but continued as by then it was probably their only option; too late now if they made an error in their perf calcs.
Had a suitable EMAS been fitted it may have given them another option, but I suspect it would still have been a messy outcome. If they had lowered the nose, almost the full weight would be transferred back to the gear and hence EMAS. However at that speed even the stumpy gear on a 72 would probably depart the fix, but it may have given them a chance to walk away from it.