Bruh.
Nearly word-for-word. It's just so perplexing that he won't commit to the aggressive, "F*ck it let's score points" attitude that got him here, especially since he's a smart guy that knows how bad his d-coordinator is.
This is exactly what he did at UC, and exactly what got him to ND. I was so excited for this season, despite the major level of inexperience and all of the major questions, because I figured that with Kizer at the helm, he was FINALLY gonna let the dogs off the leash and go BK Air Raid on everyone's asses. I figured we might lose one or two games in shootouts, but starting the season at 1-2 BECAUSE he won't let the dogs off the leash is killing me on the inside.
At UC, he'd throw the entire passing playbook at them through the first two quarters, regardless of down and distance, and he would then pick-and-choose his spots to gash them with the run game, once the opposition realized that first-down base defense wasn't safe.
ND is literally set up perfectly to play that type of game. You've got a QB that can air it out, and an OL that can operate fine in pass pro. Once you've got the defense on their heals, you can help the OL gel in the run-game by feeding your beast RB the ball on counters, zones and semi-reverses to capitalize on a numbers advantage.
As someone who watched every game he coached at UC before he was even at ND, it's terribly disappointing to see that he won't go back to his roots. It's like he's scared to open it up, because then he'd be admitting his defense is a failure, which is something he probably catches a lot more heat for at ND than he did at UC.
