Mostly a 1 with some 3 and 4.
For the 4, just an illustration. I still believe (want to believe) that someone must have drugged the water on the ND sidelines at the Coliseum when in Ara's last year Anthony Davis ran the 2nd half kick off back for SC and is still running now (I think) .
There is often a way that 1 or 2 plays or calls or some combination there of during an L would have led to a win. I have to say, I don't feel at all that way about this year's Stanford game.
I almost never get down on the kids - how could I? I only wish I would have had half the talent the least gifted walk on has so maybe I could have thought about going to Our Lady's University and putting on one of those gold helmets. They are kids after all and even though big time college athletics is a business (even at Notre Dame) they are just the cogs in the wheel that makes the $ mostly for others . And as kids, they all have parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and feelings of their own that we should keep in mind.
Coaches only become idiots after several years of poor production and failure to learn or adapt. Even at the beginning of last year I figured CW would turn it around and start to produce on a regular basis. However, after watching the Navy loss on TV and being at the Connecticut game I knew his ship had long since sailed. I was at the Navy game 3 years ago too - I guess I am a slow learner.
Tenuta was an idiot in my mind within his first few weeks of being at ND.
We probably all have a little of each in us. We all should try to minimize the 2 but as long as those of us in this camp lay off the kids and don't make it personal about the coaches it is still everyone's prerogative to have their own view of the program.
GO IRISH - BEAT BRONCOS (by a lot)!
