and attitude.This game will be close down to the final gun.
by halftime, romper room will have exploded,
with half the people slitting their wrists and
the other half checking out (possibly for the season).
NDs huge talent advantage will allow us to pull away
a little and maybe win by 10-14.
Kelly will lament how hard it is to win on the road at night.
It sounds like the Cardinals are loaded for bear. They've worked the grad and JUCO transfers to beef up.
We need to beat the ever living sh** out of them early and for the duration.
It's going to be real hostile all around.
cj.
I call dibs on the Virginia Tech game.
With Death having been vanquished a few years ago, we Designated Worriers are more important than ever.
Kudos to him for sticking it to Chuckles...
He who laughs last...
U of L will likely be very much improved. ND is nevertheless vastly more talented, and the coaching is a wash with Kelly’s re-tooled staff. (I do think Satterfield is good and has built a good staff.) ND should control this game pretty easily by mid-second quarter, if not earlier.
The talent just is not there to turn it around in year 1. And they’re years behind a program like Notre Dame.
Louisville will be improved this year (impossible not to be), but they don't have the talent to stay with ND.
Warning: video in article may cause permanent damage....
We are going to have a very long season.
And rarely has any bearing on anything. Especially not in the fist game of the season.
given their Appalachian State connections.
FR punter....has huge shoes to fill...as does Doerer ...
I hope we can keep post TD kickoffs in bounds.
I am curious to see how Patterson holds up.
It seems like Doerer has locked down the PK job with consistency. He has a stronger leg than Yoon.
And they love the freshman punter.
There was more concern in the spring.
tight it'll be a real baptism by fire.
One of my fond student football memories was watching Joe Unis trot out. Always entertaining.... He finished his FG career at 3 for 9. He was the ND Wylie Coyote of kickers. Straight on kicker.... hard to believe he could consistently be so far off line...
The best was when he had to reload the extra point in the Chicken Soup Cotton Bowl. Heart stopping....
Remember last UL game?
. . . in his own words, why he came from SEC and NFL teams, and then
blew chunks at ND. It never got any better (team defense ranked 83, 40,
and 62 from 2014 to 2016).
Hopefully I’ll get two victories over them this year.
the Rex Ryan model, has become woefully obsolete, having been deciphered and eviscerated by offensive coordinators at the college and NFL levels alike. As we saw repeatedly at Notre Dame, there are some basic concepts that are fundamentally unsound and can be easily exploited, especially in lining up against the run.
But it’s also been exposed in the passing game. Initially, Ryan had some real success pressuring and confusing QBs, who were mainly taking deeper drops and running for their lives against the exotic and unfamiliar blitz packages that Ryan was dialing up. But as the shift to shorter drops and quicker timing patterns has taken hold, the scheme has proven increasingly vulnerable, as those blitzes now routinely fail to get home and the back of the defense is left to burn.
And to top it all off, it’s notoriously complicated and impedes players from being decisive and playing fast.
Why anyone would hire VanGorder at this point is a mystery. Yet, after that disastrous stint at Louisville last year, he has somehow resurfaced as DC at Bowling Green. Wow.
in today's game.
(assuming that Ryan's scheme is derived from his father Buddy's famous defense)
However, this scheme was the perfect foil to Michigan's 2014 offense, which was equally backwards and outdated, and brought us one truly glorious night in South Bend...
Scott Loeffler was the offensive coordinator on that staff. That is how Brian VanGorder came by his current job at Bowling Green, where Loeffler is now in his first season as head coach.
That Gene Chizik would think to hire the worst defensive coordinator and one of the worst offensive coordinators in college football, further shows what a transcendent talent Cam Newton was at Auburn with Chizik.
This Louisville team is gutted, and it’s going to take a few years to assemble something competitive.