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We all know this, but I think it merits mentioning that... by GriffinGold16

For Notre Dame's players, many of those "previous minutes" came from other teams. I think if there was a way to take into account "previous days on team roster" then we would get a more faithful explanation for the woes of 2019-2020. For Notre Dame, Vaughn's and Gilbert's combined 556 previous minutes were darn near the only previous minutes played in a Notre Dame uniform on the entire roster (Cole and Benz contributing a scant bit otherwise). Meanwhile, aside from the freshmen, everyone in these tables for Connecticut and South Carolina had been on their respective rosters in 2018-2019, and although you don't show the players I think the same is true for everyone on Oregon besides Minyon Moore. That's at least one whole season of practicing, learning the coaching style, learning the plays, and developing chemistry that every player on those teams had that Notre Dame didn't - not even Sniezek and Walker who came from elsewhere.

Like you said, numbers don't paint the whole picture. If we consider how many minutes our players had logged in South Bend, it provides some more context to your numbers and helps explain the rag-tag nature of the team this past year.