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notre dame joe

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  1. Irish fans everywhere wonder how to stream it or if we'd be happier not to.
  2. few believed that cover story even though it came out before message boards. They've signed.
  3. Notre Dame running from a 2TE set is a 2020 innovation of 1st year OC Tom[my] Rees. For the previous 29 years Brian Kelly ran a rather bland version of the 4 vertical WR spread. It took a former Kelly QB becoming OC to be trusted enough to change his philosophy. Rees thought that ND's traditional recruiting strengths are OL and TE and installed a compatible offense. Maybe he got that from reading fan sites.
  4. yeah you haven't watched a full game other than Clemson 2020 part 1. Weis recruited a lot of star talent on offense only to have them loaf around during practice. There was a serious qb problem in those 8 win seasons. And in some ways it lingers on as you'll see on NYD.
  5. Maybe we could have kept him away from Vandy. But not hold back his career indefinitely. Kelly 2.0 is wrapping up his 4th year and it has been ramarkably predictable. He takes care of business against the dregs of the ACC and a downtrodden SC. Then we reach the big game and get overwhelmed by superior talent.
  6. YOu guys have "no academic restictions?" That is not your reputation. Venables's are rare. Most coordinators do not want to do it forever. 2017: After a disastrous campaign, Kelly is basically told to go outside of his network for new coordinators. He does and hires DC Elko and OC Chip Long. 4-8 becomes 10-3 (with a win over PAC champ USC and a close loss to #3 UGA). 2018: Texas A&M was absolutely determined to bid for the coaches they wanted. ND made a handshake deal with Elko for a nice pay raise but ATM simply rebid. ND refuses to match for the 2nd time and promoted Clark Lea. 2019 DC Lea is successful and hot name. Everyone understands that Lea wants a HC job. OC Chip Long becomes "difficult to work with" and leaves, becomes an analyst at UTe. Brian Kelly promotes Tom Rees, who only had graduated from ND in 2013. This felt like the old Kelly who would rather hire people he knew than those who were successful. Of course a green horn isn't getting top dollar. 2020 Lea's alma mater offers him the HC job. So I would say ND hires and pays coordinators fairly well, especially someone looks over BK's shoulder. But we don't back up the truck and make offers they can't refuse. #coordinator90210
  7. Kelly went 4-8 in year #7. He would likely have been fired but for a hefty contract extension in #6. BK got the message and changed how he ran the program. (Kelly hired two coordinators from outside his network, that had never happened) Thus it's discussed as a "Kelly 2.0" reboot. It's funny because not even two years ago we were moaning that UT got the best limb of the Urban coaching tree when you won the Sugar Bowl shortly after we got stomped in the Cotton.
  8. You don't want the Kelly that actually wins conference championships? "When I left Notre Dame I never thought I would coach again. Where do you go after Notre Dame except up to heaven to sit by the pope?" - Lou Holtz
  9. I will never understand making a "donation" to a billion dollar institution that's already has a large income turning huge profits.
  10. Reason #8 Conferences are dumb is that the 'championship game' is often not even the 5th most interesting game of the season. Seeing Bama crush Missouri or OU crush . . . Misssouri doesn't tell us who was best in show. The PC has consistently picked the 11-1 school with the best helmet. And that team is usually better than than the G5 or hot 2-loss team.
  11. The Orange Bowl will probably be ND vs SEC #3. I think I'd prefer it to be ND vs A&M as UF is sort of home field and an ND win would be the gators' 4th loss.
  12. How hard is it to throw a forward pass on 3rd and long?
  13. That's backwards because they would have to put both UF and Bama in the playoff + Clemson + Ohio State.
  14. We run both kinds of plays, inside zone and outside zone.
  15. 2nd 15 from near their goalline and Etienne ran forward for 8 yards. They then repeated the play 5 times for a clinching TD. When we try to run in an obvious running situation, K williams has to beat two people just to get out of the backfield.
  16. Likewise I'm having trouble finding ND players who would start for Clemon. Maybe a couple Oline, 1 TE and one safety.
  17. If we pull this out and Bama destroys UF it's a 2-loss CLemson with a win over Miami (2 loss) vs a 1 loss A&M with a win over UF (now 3 losses) vs Cincinatti. Nope even in that scenario It's A&M/ Now if this ends 45-3, ND is out and a 2nd SEC team is in over Cincinatti.
  18. Nothing like being a 10 point dog and setting the tone with unforced errors.
  19. Almost had a good first qtr, we're like Northwestern.
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