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Comments on: Irish Hold Off Vanderbilt https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/ The Independent Voice of Notre Dame Athletics Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:27:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert McReynolds https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22996 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:24:17 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22996 From 2015 to 2018, ND has been in the top 15 with recruiting classes. Now during that same time period ND has finished ranked 11 in 2015, not ranked in 2016, and ranked 11 in 2017. This is a team that has plateaued and is not going to get any better despite the talent that is recruited. This is a coaching problem. It wouldn’t matter who was QB’ing this team and it won’t matter this year. The biggest problem with this team is the head coach not being a type that will bring this team to the elite ranks of college football. Until BK is fired, this team will be a severe disappointment. Wake is going to play us close again and then it will be a loss to Stanford and a blowout loss to VT. Then the team will quit on the season and maybe drop another game either to Navy or USC, or both.

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By: TimCamel https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22982 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:12:27 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22982 In reply to irishhawk50.

Powlus played that game.

But probably doesnt get any more apples and oranges that Powlus and Wimbush.

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By: SCIrish https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22974 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:40:22 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22974 I have been a Notre Dame fan for many years, but it is becoming all too painful to watch this current team. I have defended Brian Kelly, and I applauded the success of last year, and his changes; but I find that I now believe that there is a better coach out there. This team has more talent than it has had in many years, yet that talent is being squandered, and it deserves better leadership.

Kelly’s continued marriage to BW must soon end in divorce, or this team will dramatically underachieve. It will NOT make the playoffs with Wimbush at QB. You say the team is inconsistent. Yes it is, and it begins with the QB. BW cannot hit receivers CONSISTENTLY. They never know what’s coming…a fastball or a wounded duck…in front of them, on target, behind them, over their head, or in the dirt. Where in hell did the sidearm pass come from? And the RPO is no better option than the I formation. We have an offensive line that has the capability to play smash mouth football. Let them. The running game had 240+ yards yesterday. Teams will continue to dare Wimbush to beat them with his arm…he won’t.

Thank God for the assistant coaches, who have done a phenomenal job of training this team. Tommy Rees gets a pass because BW is Kelly’s and Kelly’s alone. Kelly wants him to succeed at the expense of the team. The kid is NOT a college QB. He should be a running back, as that is the only thing he can do CONSISTENTLY.

I love the Irish, and I love to see them win. But that winning will stop with the current leadership. There are good teams coming up on the schedule, and if the Irish play as they have the last two weeks, they will lose. Losing to goods teams, and playing well in the process, is football. It happens. But, losing to good teams, playing crappy, uninspired, sloppy football, is inexcusable. This teams habit is becoming the later, and Karma will get her due.

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By: irishhawk50 https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22973 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:36:59 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22973 In reply to TimCamel.

Not sure but I seem to remember starting quarterback was hurt in the Air Force loss and not available. Apples and oranges?

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By: irishhawk50 https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22972 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:34:10 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22972 In reply to TimCamel.

Just wondering, no more likely to get a great punt than a shank. Easy to say after the fact of a 63 yard punt, but that was not a foregone situation when the play was called. Again, I was just wondering because I rarely see a situation where a punt out of bounds might make sense.

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By: Brian https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22971 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:20:50 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22971 I think people are underrating Vandy. I bet they finish 10-2 and second to Georgia in their SEC division. That was a good team we played yesterday.

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By: TimCamel https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22970 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:33:11 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22970 In reply to Mike Coffey.

So you were one of the people trying to run off Holtz in 1996 when he beat Vandy by 7 and lost to Air Force in his 11th year? Two years removed from 6-5-1?

Vandy won 2 games in 1996. Do you think they will win more than 2 games this year?

Or were your standards different in 1996?

I’m not comparing Holtz to Kelly.

I am comparing your lack of consistent standards and your website’s tenor of constant whining and complaining even after a win.

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By: TimCamel https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22969 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:18:51 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22969 In reply to irishhawk50.

You seriously find a reason to complain with a great play? An angled punt carries more risk of a shank than a 63 yard punt in safe coverage being returned for a TD.

I think you are the one that has out kicked your coverage of second guessing and complaining.

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By: Byerish https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22968 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:39:26 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22968 Hard to believe any ND fan would cry about officiating. ND is mostly catered to by refs. Amazing how they missed the Vandy receivers forward progress being clearly stopped at the goal line before the strip. It is once again a very average team that will play mostly very average teams – until by name alone they get into a bigger bowl. At which time reality sucks.

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By: Ryan Christopher Eddy https://dev.ndnation.com/irish-hold-off-vanderbilt/#comment-22967 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:38:49 +0000 https://dev.ndnation.com/?p=17086#comment-22967 This team will not win against other top 25 teams with BW at QB. They will not win with Book at QB. Why not go ahead put in Jurkovec and let him get some reps. It’s not going to be worse than the product we have on the field now. The schedule looks a lot easier now with FSU and USC not looking good, but Stanford and VT look like sure losses right now. I’m impressed with the defense and Jones looked good running the ball yesterday, but a change needs to be made at QB.

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