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It is compounded at ND because we don't play a set schedule by btd

like conferences do. Conferences have very well defined offenses and defenses across all teams in the conference. You play close to the exact same schedule every year. That translates into you install a specific kind of offense (or defense) that largely works across the entire conference.

ND plays every major conference plus triple option teams like Navy every year. We also rotate teams from the conferences and rotate across conferences across seasons. The net result is the OC and the DC have to be able to handle a much wider variety of defenses (or offenses for DC) each season. Remember Diaco having absolutely no clue what to do with triple option? He'd never seen it before.

Layer on top of this that we presently have a totally failed offensive system -- and that failed system is the only one Rees have ever known. What basis does he have to draw upon to change the offense into one that can actually win a playoff game -- and ideally a title game too? None. That's the reason why hiring Rees is a major problem for most people.

5 to 10 years from now he may have the experience needed to adjust real-time like a Lou Holtz during a game to something unexpected a DC throws at him. Short of camps, video and a small miracle -- he has no method to learn a different offense and how to implement it at ND.