I think Weis doesnt handle the rb position too well at all. Armando Allen has become a runner who powers through contact and has become a workhorse back after adding weight and power.
If Allen could take 20-25 carries per game he could be over 100 yards all the time and I think he would get stronger as the game went on.
They take him out by the goal line and I dont understand it. I know Hughes is bigger and perceived as the more powerful back but we dont do well putting the ball in the endzone from inside the 5, running it.
The times AA has run it close, weve scored TDs.
Once again, Allen has an ankle injury.
He suffered an ankle injury in the MSU game where he already had 23 carries for 115 yds and 1 TD. He was held out in the 4th quarter of that game with the game on the line and all of the Purdue game.
In the first 3 games of the season Allen averaged 20 carries/game, 109 yds/game, better than 5.5 ypc. Since the injury he missed part of one game and all of the next. Allen returned with that injured ankle against Washington and struggled for 39 yds on 12 carries for 3.2 yds/carry. A week later he had another 12 carry game but increased his ypc to 4.2. Last week against BC he had 21 carries and 4.7 ypc STILL ON AN INJURED ANKLE!
I think Weis doesnt handle the rb position too well at all.
Let's review, Weis had a FB, Aldridge, for the first game of the season then lost him with a shoulder injury. Hughes practiced at both FB and RB. Floyd then went out with a broken clavicle drastically reducing the vertical passing game. Then Clausen was hurt with the turf toe that limited his mobility and hurt the passing game. Then Allen, the leading rusher, the best RB Receiver in ND history, AND the best RB pass blocker on the team gets hurt in the same game. Jonas Gray had already proven to be an inconsistent blocker and Riddick as a freshman is just learning how to be pass block, much less read defenses, know all the audibles, and be adept at blitz pickup.
Wood hasn't seen the field. It'd be really clever to put him to learn blitz pickup on the job, wouldn't it? "Sorry Jimmy, I didn't know he was my man. Can you move your legs yet?"
Weis, running out of mobile backfield personnel, inserted the Wildcat using Tate, Goodman, Riddick, and Hughes among others. Then Hughes goes down on a goal line play with an illegal helmet hit to his left temple. Concussion. No score. Allen hasn't scored a rushing TD since he was injured. Ankle injuries are NOT conducive to goal line power running.
Recently you made a similar disingenuous post pointing out that Reggie Brooks ran for 8 ypc but this TEAM only averages 3.7. How cute comparing a record setting performance by one RB on a stacked team against this TEAM performance with a multitude of All-American players. Brooks and 22 teammates were NFL Draft Picks, 7 First Rounders and 5 Second Rounders.
This crippled team is averaging 3.7 yds/carry but simply eliminating limping Jimmy Clausen's contribution to that team average results in a team average of 4.2 ypc.
Don't think that's fair. Consider this, as the injuries mounted so did the sacks. In the first 2 games ND had zero sacks. Floyd goes down, than Clausen AND Allen get foot injuries and MSU gets 2 sacks. Next game Purdue gets 4 sacks. Washington gets 3. USC gets 5. BC only gets 1.
NEV 0
UM 0
MSU 2
PU 4
UW 3
USC 5
BC 1
