Let's not blame the refs for this loss. Sam young is supposed to be our best o-line player and was getting handled by smaller, inferior d-linemen. How many holding calls did he have? Also, i understand that noise is an issue but come on, how many wasted timeouts and delay of games do we take before we realize how to manage the pressure? This is supposed to be a veteran group, lets handle ourselves like we've been here before. As well as the coaching staff. The defense did not get good pressure on the Qb. I think, by looking at it that tenutas scheme was not good at all. Where was the confusing pressure? Where was the different blitzs? How many times will we get thrashed up the middle before we blitz in the middle? Why did Manti get pulled out for such an extended period of time, toryan smith just accepted so many blocks, it was ridiculous. I also don't understand why hafis williams isn't getting in the rotation, especially when ethan and ian both are winded. On offense we looked good except two things: penalties and weis' late playcalling faults. Everyone in the world knows that we should have ran the ball, even if they load the box to force them to use their timeouts, that was a major letdown on weis. I'm not calling for his head though. Also, since this is a thread about allen and gray, allen looks like a stud, and gray made one mistake that did turn out to be deadly. He still should not be benched for one mistake. All that and i still feel like ND is really good and can make huge strides this year and learn from this loss. We dominated on offense. Michigan made the big plays when it mattered. They will be pretty good this year. Let's take it out on Mich. St. next week and get the bus rollin again. By the way clausen looks great.
P.S. Sorry for the paragraph. lol
