Two things

Two things
by mocopdx (2021-10-18 16:10:27)
Edited on 2021-10-18 16:11:47

In reply to: our offense looked more crisp than today's offense posted by irishrock

1. Urban had left by then, and was never Davie's OC.

2. Our offense was absolutely abysmal that year and most of Davie's tenure, for that matter. We were 100th out of 117 that year in scoring offense at 19.5 PPG.

Let's not pretend that seeing a few good runs on a short highlight film against a bad opponent is any indication that things were better in 2000 than they are now. This is BK's worst offense in a while, and yet it's still safely better than whatever the hell Davie was running by the end of his regime.

I subscribe to the idea that there are three tiers of coaches at ND and BK is on his own:

Tier 1- All of the national championship coaches

Tier 2- Brian Kelly

Tier 3- Everyone else

The issue is that the gap between tiers 1 and 2 is substantially larger than the gap between tiers 2 and 3.

Replies:

the watered down schedule has helped Kelly out a ton - irishrock 2021-10-18 17:25:22
- The 2001 schedule: - 105Marquette 2021-10-18 21:45:48
  - Stop being ridiculous - Chicagond99 2021-10-19 04:03:13
    - So you're going to stand pat that we'd only lose 5 games? - tdiddy07 2021-10-19 12:56:40
      - No, I'm saying we wouldn't lose 6 games "minimum" - Chicagond99 2021-10-19 13:24:55
        No, you can't just toss out the worst played game - tdiddy07 2021-10-19 13:46:14
        Data points - Chicagond99 2021-10-19 17:32:40
    - what made that 2001 schedule so difficult - jt 2021-10-19 11:55:30
      - Yes, that was a strange way of opening the season * - Chicagond99 2021-10-19 13:33:25
    - One other 'thing' about schedules -- - irishdemon 2021-10-19 10:54:13
I would put Harper and Layden in Tier 2, at the very least. (link) - G.K.Chesterton 2021-10-18 16:54:53
- Agree on both. * - RallyingSon 2021-10-20 11:22:11
- That's fair. - mocopdx 2021-10-18 16:56:53