( and I have more than a few)
After he won the Heisman Trophy, a reporter asked him if he thought playing at ND gave him more of an advantage to win the award he simply responded āIām not apologizing to anyone for attending the University of Notre Dame.ā I am paraphrasing of course but you get the gist.
and he said that after Terry Andrysiak went down in '87 that they had to run the wishbone because Tony Rice wasn't ready to throw the ball. I think Lou did run some full house in the red zone, but I don't remember any wishbone.
I think that he did have the wishbone in there and ran that against teams in 86 and 87, but I'm not positive.
He could always find the bubble--his whole running game philosophy boiled down to (basically) the defense having to have an odd number of guys to one side (5) and that if he could find a way to run to that bubble he could consistently get yards. The full house/double tight is the best way to force them to tip their hand and it gives you possibly two lead blockers out of the backfield (assuming no fake).
That they ran alot of option.