I never said this was on paper a better roster than Bama Georgia or OSU. Ultimately the most important thing is the number of future NFL players starting for your team, ND has a lot and should be good enough to handle NIU. It's a coaching issue....
The defensive rooms are much deeper. Sure, Kelly had decent first string players, but no depth. There were always holes.
I saw the screenshot and I don't think the roster is even close to Texas either maybe even Oklahoma.
Didn’t say you did. We’re just still in the same spot we were with Kelly, trying to get to that elite level. I just don’t see us any closer from a talent standpoint, you obviously do. I hope you’re right.
This is exactly where I'm at. It feels the same with maybe a little more "swagger" I know I know...Just got bullied by NIU.
We won't ever be, but we should be able to do what UofM, OU, FSU and Aubrun have done in the last 35 years, which is dominant one season and win a national championship. When Lou left I thought we'v bee on the every 10-15 year rotation, 30 years later we're still waiting.
Totally agree, shouldnt have put the defense in these spots. Offense definitely shoulder 95% of the blame
Did any reporter ask him about that?
Have to agree. When I saw MF pumping the team in the tunnel, I wondered if he wasn't getting them a little to high? Hard to duplicate that when the opponent is NIU.
The inconsistency you see in the tunnel is same thing you see on the field. Marcus is still trying to figure out who he is as a HC and what he wants his progrum to be. Something he should of ironed out first at a place like Cincy first.
They are gonna drop his Avg from 5.3 yd per completion to 2.7 grrrreat....lol
It's Coaching 101. By Monday morning, TAMU should have been in the rearview mirror. If they were drinking kool aid by Tuesday, that's immediately on him as the head coach. Full stop.
For the most part, I don't think the coaches can worry about who leaves. With that said, if they were to hand the job to Carr later this year, they better be close to 100% that he's "the man", because the QB room could end up being empty.
In the history of everything, putting someone on a short leash never works. Usually they perform worse due to the pressure. The kid knows he sucked. Let him play free and live with the results or just move on.
The flipside is that the other program is selling him that it's the program where QBs have gone to die for the last two decades.
I think that’s accurate but in addition I think we need a Manziel or Lawrence type QB.
It would be great to have a Heisman QB but I'd take a Deshone Kiser level QB every year if they can marry that with a mauling run game and a stronger, deeper defensive front.
Does Will Fuller come with?
I thought that last year watching UofM and JJ Mcarthy. An Ian Book type could have easily run that offense and been just as successful. Harbaugh and staff knew JJ's limitations so the ran an offense best suited to their personnel. I can't remember the last time ND was as run heavy as UofM was last year, late 90's I guess. And nowadays when so many defenses are designed to stop the pass (ours included) the run is very much a neutralizer. You just need to be committed because when you face a good defense, the ground game sometimes only starts to show fruit in the later part of the game when the def is worn. Our staff/s always seem to try to run their scheme vs aligning it to match the type of player ND gets on campus and develops.
It would help, but I think with a good designed play action passing game, we could get even the WRs on this roster open
