Pride to put on the Gold Helmet?

[NDFANnSouthWest]

I listened to Power Hour tonight and also watching the BSU game. And something that was said is that "BSU does not pressure recruits...if they want to be part of it they will come to BSU." Also on Power Hour a statement was made by one of the callers that eluded to "...where is the Pride to put on the Golden Helmet?!" After this loss I don’t want anyone on this team that is not committed to ND. I don’t like losing...however the way we loss this weekend was pathetic because there was no passion, no pride. It is time to recruit the kid that is committed to ND....discuss.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

What is to discuss?
I don't think there is any kid at ND that's not committed. Are you attempting to make a correlation between the loss Saturday and our kids commitment to ND?

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

What is to discuss?
I don't think there is any kid at ND that's not committed. Are you attempting to make a correlation between the loss Saturday and our kids commitment to ND?

Hence the discussion...I personally have not seen passion of our players this year or for the past couple of years.

As I said earlier there is a loss...then there is what happened Saturday...

 

[no.1IrishFan]

Hence the discussion...I personally have not seen passion of our players this year or for the past couple of years.

As I said earlier there is a loss...then there is what happened Saturday...

What happened Saturday is we were out played and unprepared for a quite good Navy team. People need to stop thinking of Navy in the past tense. As if just because they were bad for a long time, it's impossible for them to put together a quality team who executed their game plan to near perfection.

We got beat, I'm sure everyone on the team is more than proud to put on the gold helmet.
I don't think not being proud to wear the gold helmet has anything to do with what happened Saturday.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

Boise seems to"play" football. Nothing to lose.

Regarding the statement "BSU does not pressure recruits..." heck I read a post here where the poster asked Lynch and his mom to come to ND and be an instant winner and leader.

Pressure?

 

[no.1IrishFan]

Boise seems to"play" football. Nothing to lose.

Regarding the statement "BSU does not pressure recruits..." heck I read a post here where the poster asked Lynch and his mom to come to ND and be an instant winner and leader.

Pressure?

Yeah that one was pretty stupid.

 

[ndcoltsfan2010]

Boise seems to"play" football. Nothing to lose.

Regarding the statement "BSU does not pressure recruits..." heck I read a post here where the poster asked Lynch and his mom to come to ND and be an instant winner and leader.

Pressure?

That was a retarded statement by that poster. The bottom line is that in time I am sure Aaron will be a leader for this team, but to expect a young kid (freshman) to be the defensive savior is just ridiculous. No matter how awesome and talented he is. He will help our defense immediately I have no doubt about that..., he is a special recruit that does not come around that often, but the last thing we need is to be unrealistic and expect this kid to be the new leader. That is just way too much pressure to handle for any kid.

 

[Zibby32]

Parity boys and girls...

that is what we are experiencing in college football these days.

 

[irish1958]

Parity boys and girls...

that is what we are experiencing in college football these days.

Parity in players, not in coaches. I think head coaching in college football is 90% of a team's success.
I think with BSU's schedule we would be 7 and 1 at this time.
Alabama's Bear Bryant, when asked how he had such great teams, is reported to have said "LSMFT" which was the Lucky Strike cigarette slogan. Light Schedules Make Fine Teams.
I suspect he didn't make this statement, but it's a good story. Woody Hayes had a similar head coaching philosophy.

 

[ubet49]

A good coach uses what he has to make a team great. A coach should not use an offense type that he does not have the players to run it. Navy uses the option because they have a great quarterback to execute it. ND does not have the players or QB to run the spread. The offensive linemen can't keep 3 rushers of our QB for more than 3 or 4 seconds, very sad. BK so far is proving to be a mini me clone of CW. I hoping for better but haven't seen it yet. I want to see the defense play all out but we have a defense that reads and then tries to react. I would love to see an attacking defense, balls to the walls. I have not seen any linebacker stunts all season so far. Yea we blitzed a few times but no stunts on running plays. Get someone in the backfield more and bust up those plays. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

Boise seems to"play" football. Nothing to lose.

Regarding the statement "BSU does not pressure recruits..." heck I read a post here where the poster asked Lynch and his mom to come to ND and be an instant winner and leader.

Pressure?

The Pressure Refrence...was Pressure to Commit and Sign with BSU. They dont want anyone to come to BSU that doesnt want to be there....

THe Pressure you are talking about ....is differerent.

 

[tommyIRISH23]

That was a retarded statement by that poster. The bottom line is that in time I am sure Aaron will be a leader for this team, but to expect a young kid (freshman) to be the defensive savior is just ridiculous. No matter how awesome and talented he is. He will help our defense immediately I have no doubt about that..., he is a special recruit that does not come around that often, but the last thing we need is to be unrealistic and expect this kid to be the new leader. That is just way too much pressure to handle for any kid.

First of all, I didn't say he should come here, and start, and be a "savior" player as a freshman. I was speaking to being a leader in the locker-room to break the trend of "its okay to lose" and "Just go try your best". Be a vocal leader as a freshmen, lead the other freshmen, be loud at practice, and BRING with him the intensity that he plays with, and has gotten him this far.

For the last few years ND players have talked the talk, but there has been no walking the walk.

My point was that maybe it's time to let leaders lead, and get rid of the seniority approach to leadership. ND needs a different kind of player then it currently has.

I did not by any means say the kid should come in on day 1 and break the NCAA sack record.