Alford Staying

[WabashFalcon]

Name me 2 TEs from the Davie and Willingham era that projected to the NFL? You can't! That was a position that was under utilize. I guess you tend to forget those coaches and think Brain Kelly is picking up where Holtz left off. Charlie brought back that tight end tradition the way Holtz use to use it. Take your blinders off!!!

Carlson was a Willingham guy. Fasano was another one.


What do I win?

 

[alleycat9]

so whats so special about alford that he is the only guy not shown the door?

there has to be something different about him than everyone else i just have no idea what it is.

 

[DKSchrute]

Carlson was a Willingham guy. Fasano was another one.


What do I win?

You won me the argument. Notre Dame ALWAYS has a roster full of stud tight ends, goes back 50 years. Jabari Holloway was also a NFL tight end and played for Davie.

 

[Riddickulous]

I love Tony Alford. Great positional coach, plus he's probably the most intimidating human being alive.

 

[BGIF]

I agree, but, Alford coaching didn't show that much more, except that Jonas still can't hold on to the ball, Hughes looked overly slow, and Riddick, while looking good at times, put the rock on the carpet a few times as well.

From ND Press Release:

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Alford, who just completed his first season on the Irish sidelines, made significant strides with the Notre Dame running backs. After the two worst rushing seasons in school history in 2007 (75.25 ypg) and 2008 (109.69 ypg), the Irish improved its rushing output by nearly 17 percent to 128.2 yards per game on the ground this season. In fact, the Irish churned out 135.6 per game on called running plays in 2009.

Notre Dame also saw a major upgrade in rushing yards per carry. The Irish backfield averaged just 3.9 yards per carry in both 2007 and 2008, but improved by over 20 percent in 2009 to 4.7 yards per rush average. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Notre Dame's running backs also saw an improvement in ball security. The Irish fumbled nine times in 2009, but only three came from running backs in 299 carries. Contrastingly, Notre Dame's running backs fumbled five times in 2008. [/FONT]

 

[DKSchrute]

I dont put any stock in the statisctics from '07 to '09. Were talking a team of Freshman at all skill positions to all juniors at skill positions.

Those stats couldnt go anywhere but up from '07 to now.

4.7 per rush is ok I guess but I also saw ND not get 1 yard when needed a whole lot this year.

 

[choo choo]

i have more faith in bk already, keeping alford and letting the rest of that inept group go...especially tenuta and all damn stunting and blitzing shit that didnt work

 

[irish1958]

It was not the running backs, it was the plays and play calling.
The pro offense sucks in college. In the Nave game, with the ball on the one yard line, our quarterback takes the ball back five yards and hands it to our slowest running back, who attempts to go wide; no fullback to block, no pulling guard. Hughes makes a great run to only lose five yards. Now look at Navy: our o-line out weighs their d-line by ?50# a man or more. The only thing Navy has going for them is they are super quick and super smart.
If you are going to use Hughes, bring in two tight ends, a fullback and an H-back (out biggest lineman) and go at them.
Look at what Stanford did to us.
Play college football and forget about being a farm team for the pros.

 

[NDinL.A.]

It was not the running backs, it was the plays and play calling.
The pro offense sucks in college. In the Nave game, with the ball on the one yard line, our quarterback takes the ball back five yards and hands it to our slowest running back, who attempts to go wide; no fullback to block, no pulling guard. Hughes makes a great run to only lose five yards.

Look at what Stanford did to us.

Play college football and forget about being a farm team for the pros.

That play you are talking about to Hughes didn't fail because of the pro-style offense, it failed because it was the wrong play call. You wanted a FB, a pulling guard, etc, that's still pro-style offense.

You even talk about what Stanford did to us. Guess what? That's a pro-style offense.

You know who else runs a pro-style offense? USC. And they pretty much are a farm team for the NFL as well as a perennial title contender.

Our struggles had nothing to do with the pro-style offense last year (in 2007, yes, because it was too complicated for a freshman QB and freshmen RBs and receivers), but it had everything to do with defensive scheme and possibly defensive talent, attitude, motivation, attention to detail, etc. Oh yeah, and Big Ten refs. You'll notice that most of those things can be fixed by the right coach. Hopefully we have that inKelly.

Oh, and btw, if you think that slow-developing play to Hughes frustrated you, wait until you see what ND does on 4th and the inch-line. We'll still stay in the shotgun and the QB will receive the ball at the 5 yard-line. That is going to kill me next year...

 

[IrishinSyria]

I was looking at some highlights from old games the other day, and I started thinking what it would look like if we brought back the wishbone for short yardage and goal line plays. Armando, Hughes and pick your third back all lined up in the backfield. Would make for a great change of pace from the spread and would be very very tough to stop, especially if Crist is healthy enough to be a QB sneak threat.

Of course this is about as un-kelly an idea I could possibly dream up, but still...

 

[irish1958]

I was looking at some highlights from old games the other day, and I started thinking what it would look like if we brought back the wishbone for short yardage and goal line plays. Armando, Hughes and pick your third back all lined up in the backfield. Would make for a great change of pace from the spread and would be very very tough to stop, especially if Crist is healthy enough to be a QB sneak threat.

Of course this is about as un-kelly an idea I could possibly dream up, but still...

Lou used to run a tight "T" then.

 

[jason_h537]

The pro offense sucks in college.

USC, Alabama, and Ohis St would disagree.