Comments on: Irish Soar Past Falcons

By: fenian_32

fenian_32 — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:46:35 +0000

The ineffective running game continues to frustrate. I don’t understand why we can’t throw in some screens as a substitute. I was happy with Kelly and Rees throwing the ball deep early. Even though that deep pass on the first drive was incomplete, it helped open up the intermediate passing game, and set the tone early that Rees can go vertical with accuracy.

By: fenian_32

fenian_32 — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:40:11 +0000

In reply to Dirty. Until a coach can establish sustained success, we are still talking "post Holtz". Sad, but true. I can't identify at all with people who claim to be ND fans, but don't really care if the program is great again. Alumni or not.

By: ND Chicago

ND Chicago — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:10:59 +0000

ND football doesn’t play in a conference so success isn’t measured in conference championships, it’s measured in National Championships. It’s been 25 years since the last ND National Championship and Lou Holtz was the coach of that team, so it was used as a point of reference. In other words, in case you missed it, every coach since Holtz left has been fired (present coach excluded- for now) because they haven’t been very good in the “post Holtz” era. As soon as someone wins the next one, I’ll gladly use that as a point of reference when trying to illustrate the desired trajectory of the program.

By: Dirty

Dirty — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:10:55 +0000

In reply to ND Chicago. Did someone actually say "post Holtz"? The "post Holtz" era passed a long time ago, my friend. Time to get with it.

By: Dirty

Dirty — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:08:42 +0000

In reply to Jake. No, we didn't hear it here first; we all know that BYU is more than capable of beating this Notre Dame team. Where have you been?

By: ND Chicago

ND Chicago — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 01:19:10 +0000

The good news is that ND is winning games like this against inferior opponents. They’re also winning close games which is something they were on the wrong end of at the beginning of Kelly’s tenure and post Holtz. The bad news is after 4 years ND really doesn’t have an offensive identity, they miss a ton of tackles, and special teams are absolutely atrocious with no improvement at all. The spread offense, which Kelly insists on running, is only effective if you can run the ball (QB and/or RB) and, most importantly, run it when you want to/need to control the clock. After 4 years, ND hasn’t been able to do that which is either a failure to recruit the right players to run this offense or a failure to coach them up. At the end of the day, championship teams can run the ball on offense and stop the run on defense.

By: Dave W

Dave W — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:49:32 +0000

At least twice I saw us run delayed outside runs on 3rd and 1 and we didnt get the 1st either time. Whats up with that playcalling? We outweight these guys 50 # a man. Punch it up the gut!!

By: Tom D.

Tom D. — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:19:18 +0000

Best of the backs: Folston. Next best: McDaniel. Get the ball more to C.J. Procise. Run defense gave up 185 in the first half against a lousy team. Discouraging. Navy–Should be like AF. Pitt: Pitt plays better at ND than at Pitt. BYU: We win 38-30. Stanford: This may not be a very good day unless the defense tightens up and special teams show up. Look for Stanford to win 28-13. 9-3 is not all bad and is the kind of year we expected with Golson gone and the D disappointing (and the special teams still awful).

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:20:29 +0000

In reply to Jake. Why do we return punts as if we're playing flag football? It is still legal to block the coverage unit when returning punts, isn't it?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:20:59 +0000

In reply to martinjordan.

Martin Jordan,

You’re right.. Special teams are awful.. What’s Kelly thinking after four years…