First Year of Studies isn't really anything. It's just a fancy name for Notre Dame's policy that you don't pick a major (and thus don't enroll in the College of Arts and Letters, Mendoza College of Business, etc.) until sophomore year. Most freshman take pretty basic courses, like first year composition, principles of philosophy, etc. Your point that Notre Dame is more rigorous than most power five universities is absolutely correct, but FYS has nothing to do with it.
I think it's a concern, but there are ways to fudge it. We could use a tight end as an extra lineman, h-back, or even line him up next to Malik in obvious passing situations. Watching all of the summer/fall press conferences and media coverage, it sounds like Prosise was getting significant first team reps, so hopefully he'll be where he needs to be in his development. I think people are equating Prosise to a freshman running back and that's a mistake. Yes, it's his first year at the position, but he's been with the first team offense and has been around the program long enough that I'm not especially worried.
