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]]>They need yelled at. they should have put up 60-70 on these guys. BC was the worst team i have seen in college this year.
]]>On the contrary, I think his decision to keep the foot on the gas makes very good sense, for more than one reason.
First, this team is transitioning from a pro-style offense to a spread. One of the biggest advantages of Kelly’s spread version is that it moves very fast between plays, tiring out the defense and preventing defensive personnel substitutions. This transition is, clearly, nowhere near complete: the Irish take way more time between plays than Cincinnati did, and it’s plain that only part of the playbook is installed. Thus, every drive is precious time that increases the team’s experience and practice with this new system.
Second, continuing to use the playbook late in the game while cycling in many young backups is a powerful way to get experience and develop much needed depth.
Finally, weren’t many of us constantly bashing Weis for shutting down his offense as soon as he got a decent lead, only have the other team come back? I favor a coach with a lead putting in the back-ups and continuing to play the full book: it keeps teams focused and builds depth.
]]>“Can’t wait to see what he can do with his own recruits the next few years.”
You got that right – we’ve got room for 2 or 3 more, let’s get some DBs.
I never said Kelly shouldn’t yell, all I said was seeing it 3 or 4 times was enough.
]]>1.) Offensively, we ran the ball against a team that stops the run. BC averages just 81 rushing yards allowed per game. We threw the ball against a team that can stop the pass. BC allows about 230 yards per game but also has 6 INTs on the season.
2.) Defensively, we stopped a running game in its tracks. While this is hardly saying much — BC had no real running game going into this contest — it is still an improvement over how we played Michigan and Michigan State and Stanford.
3.) For the first time since the 1990s, we won a game in Boston.
Cons:
1.) We don’t take care of the ball very well
2.) We still struggle on offense. Crist looked confused on several occasions and the backs could have wracked up more yardage.
On the whole, though, we have a lot to be proud of — and we won this game.
Now it’s Pittsburgh, and let’s blow them out, too.
]]>Go Irish!
]]>I hope our poor performance didn’t take away from your victory. Our OC Tranquill needed to be fired yesterday. If he had any class, he’d retire immediately (for the 3rd or 4th time).
]]>And there have been some comments about former coaches not being fired up enough, and how that was such a problem. Weis was lumped in with Willingham and Davie in a couple of posts. Toward the end of Weis’s tenure, even the last couple of years I’ll admit, that was true. But you can’t say Weis wasn’t animated and fired up early on. Take a look at the MSU/ND game a few years back when Quinn and the Irish came back in a monsoon, you’ll see Weis before he was a beaten and broken coach being vocal, animated, and a hell of a lot of fun to watch.
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