2024 Spring Practice Thread

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Lol. We had 236 yds rushing against Oregon State. That doesn’t happen if Tosh sucks.
 
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GowerND11 said:
Dee durr our 2nd rb had 8.2 ypc…
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And over half that came on one carry.

I saw a stat where we had something like 25 RB runs from mid first quarter to fourth quarter with only one going over 6 yards.

I didn't come away impressed with our run game vs OSU, but we did a good job of not having negative runs and picking up short yardage, and being extremely efficient throwing the ball.

If you're confident in tosh at right tackle, i sure hope you're right. Stats and PFF evaluation of this play throughout the years is not good.
 
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Some Irish Bloke said:
"starting RB" declared for the draft.

You know it was a 1a/1b platoon in that game, but you just have to keep your always negative narrative alive. Love had 15 carries, Price had 13 carries.

"starting RB" gmafb
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So Love didn't start?

What this is all about - Do you think ND can have a really good oline in 2024 with Baker starting at RT? Personally, i think it will be the obvious weak link of the entire offense and probably cost us a close game somewhere.
 
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I'm really excited to see what our offense looks like. I wish (as we all do) leonard and our TEs were healthy this spring for the install.

How does he utilize our weapons and get the best players on the field? Obviously significantly less 2 and 3 TE sets for starters.
 
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PutuporShutup said:
So Love didn't start?

What this is all about - Do you think ND can have a really good oline in 2024 with Baker starting at RT? Personally, i think it will be the obvious weak link of the entire offense and probably cost us a close game somewhere.
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Angeli started the game, but he wasn't our starting QB in 2023. You're splitting hairs and you know it.

I believe ND will put the best man at RT and across the entire OL in 2024, and no, I don't think I'm in a position to predict what player will cost us a close game in 2024 in frickin March.
 
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Some Irish Bloke said:
Angeli started the game, but he wasn't our starting QB in 2023. You're splitting hairs and you know it.

I believe ND will put the best man at RT and across the entire OL in 2024, and no, I don't think I'm in a position to predict what player will cost us a close game in 2024 in frickin March.
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Didn't ask you to predict a player costing us a game. I made a prediction because i'm not scared to say what I think instead of pretending like we have a perfect team every year. I asked if we can have a really good Oline in 2024 with Baker at RT? We'll know right away at A&M.

Probably many people are "hopeful" as I am that he's made significant improvements since he seems to have the inside track to start there. But I would also guess most realize he's played really bad with his opportunities to date and it's more likely he's still not good enough for what we need at RT.
 
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it is funny to me how fans and some folks in media love all the 12/13 personnel and the heavy sets because it reminds them of days gone by/manball and all that but you can tell the players don't really like it all. Love's comments this week were quite striking IMO
 
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dublinirish said:
it is funny to me how fans and some folks in media love all the 12/13 personnel and the heavy sets because it reminds them of days gone by/manball and all that but you can tell the players don't really like it all. Love's comments this week were quite striking IMO
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Love would have every reason not to like it as it’s less likely he gets on the field in those packages
 
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dublinirish said:
it is funny to me how fans and some folks in media love all the 12/13 personnel and the heavy sets because it reminds them of days gone by/manball and all that but you can tell the players don't really like it all. Love's comments this week were quite striking IMO
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It's much harder to consistently execute with the athleticism on dlines in modern football. It's not who can out push out leverage who anymore. That sometimes happens if a team is really struggling on their fits (see clemson vs ND in 2022) or one team just has that big of a physical advantage (see ND vs Stanford in 2023) but it's not a recipe for consistent success.
 
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Whyyy is it always PutupOrShutup single-handedly derailing threads for his seemingly obsessive need to “be right” ????

I don’t post all that often but I’ve been lucky enough to be a member here for over a decade, and you alone are making this site the most unenjoyable it’s been in that decade +

GIVE IT A REST !
 
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NDty9 said:
Whyyy is it always PutupOrShutup single-handedly derailing threads for his seemingly obsessive need to “be right” ????

I don’t post all that often but I’ve been lucky enough to be a member here for over a decade, and you alone are making this site the most unenjoyable it’s been in that decade +

GIVE IT A REST !
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Ignored him long ago
 
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dublinirish said:
it is funny to me how fans and some folks in media love all the 12/13 personnel and the heavy sets because it reminds them of days gone by/manball and all that but you can tell the players don't really like it all. Love's comments this week were quite striking IMO
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12 and especially 13 personnel can't be the base of a high level college football offense. There are plenty of teams with high level offenses that are base 11 personnel and also run some 12/20/21/etc. personnel.
 
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If you are a RB who wants to get drafted high you have to have a lot of catching highlights I reckon - so love is going to get his chance at that.
 
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NDty9 said:
Whyyy is it always PutupOrShutup single-handedly derailing threads for his seemingly obsessive need to “be right” ????

I don’t post all that often but I’ve been lucky enough to be a member here for over a decade, and you alone are making this site the most unenjoyable it’s been in that decade +

GIVE IT A REST !
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Why can’t people discuss football on a football message board?

What a concept, instead of coming here for high fives from your buddies
 
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dublinirish said:
it is funny to me how fans and some folks in media love all the 12/13 personnel and the heavy sets because it reminds them of days gone by/manball and all that but you can tell the players don't really like it all. Love's comments this week were quite striking IMO
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One of the talking heads said something to the effect of Kelly got blasted by Alabama in 2012 and spent the rest of his tenure trying to recreate Alabama's 2012 team.

I don't mind the 12 personnel stuff but ideally you should be able to also do the opposite to some degree and ND hasn't been able to spread the field when the situation called for it.
 
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Pops Freshenmeyer said:
One of the talking heads said something to the effect of Kelly got blasted by Alabama in 2012 and spent the rest of his tenure trying to recreate Alabama's 2012 team.

I don't mind the 12 personnel stuff but ideally you should be able to also do the opposite to some degree and ND hasn't been able to spread the field when the situation called for it.
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This is not inaccurate.
(of course, by the time BK succeeded, Alabama was quite able to spread the field when the occasion called for it, such as the second time they blasted us in the postseason).
 
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