This is honestly wild. Between this and how he came off in the Teo documentary, I’m increasingly of the opinion that Swarbrick sucks at crisis management and making decisions in real time. It’s like he has no risk management framework which kind of surprises me given his law & economics background.
Swarbrick is most likely very human and not a genius. He's a pretty smart guy who has flaws like everyone else.
Kirby too, and a lot of other 1st year guys.
He's a smart guy who's at the helm of a multi-hundred million dollar revenue organization. Not having a plan for if the head of your largest division gets hit by a bus (or leaves for LSU) is unforgivable. Not understanding the risks and contingencies for your potential replacement candidates and failing to do anything to address those risks is a dereliction of duty. We're not talking about "flaws" here--this is his job description.
We've clearly taken a step back in consistency. It's on Freeman to figure out how to dramatically raise the floor of this team in short order. But he's only halfway through this first season. He's probably going to get at least three years to figure this all out.
You think Rees and Book weren't developed? That a better coach could have wrung more productivity out of them?
We were all hoping that Freeman could maintain Kelly's high floor while upgrading the roster over the next few seasons to increase the ceiling. We weren't going anywhere this season anyway, so as long as he can keep recruiting at a high level while he figures this stuff out, then it doesn't really matter what our record for 2022 is. But he does have to figure it out sooner than later.
He tried to make one of those subordinates the highest paid OC in the country for him at LSU, and yet we're ready to burn Rees in effigy. So there's no consistency here. Kelly's a lazy nepotistic moron when he hired Rees to be his OC, but we have to solemnly nod in agreement when he tweets, "Freeman ain't it" from his burner account on Twitter?
Whoever our OC is next year is walking into a pretty good situation. The offense won't be so young and they'll be returning most of their starters, I'm wondering if losing Lenzy isn't an upgrade though. They'll be a much more experienced group of upperclassmen instead of Sophomores and some Freshmen, and some much needed depth will be coming in at WR. The only playmaker we probably lose is Mayer, and while that's a big loss I think we'll be better able to sustain with a deeper WR group.
They spent most of their spring, fall, and the first two games giving another guy the lion's share of the 1st team reps. We are playing with a backup, remember.
He schemed Merriweather into two TD plays and one for Lenzy apparently, but we were only able to hit on one of the three. If Pyne is the best we have we gotta hope he continues to progress because with transfers and injuries he remains the current QB under center.
He basically said they'd worked on it in practice and liked the play in that situation, but Stanford was lined up with more guys on that side than they had expected. Tommy spotted it from the box and said so but sounded like they didn't have time/move fast enough to call TO. Couldawouldashoulda.
I for one have blamed Tommy Rees for every single thing that has gone wrong for Notre Dame football since the Tulsa game in 2010.
One of the tenants of Christianity and Catholicism is forgiveness and blessing the sinner. We should have hired Urban fucking Meyer. That would have put guys like Saban on notice.
There's no forgiveness without repentance, and there's zero evidence that Urban regrets anything he's done.
I am shocked to hear that you only care about winning at any cost. Truly. If only we had more people who understand the University as well as you do on the Board of Fellows.
I just rewatched that play on Peacock. We break the huddle with 18 seconds on the playclock after Drew scrambled on the 3rd and 18 to make it 4th and 2. Stanford is partially lined up as we come to the line, but some guys are moving around as we're lining up. Jayden Thomas is in motion already at 9 seconds on the playclock. We ran the play pretty quick once everyone got lined up, it might be one of those situations were we do actually need to check with the sideline to see if we should be changing it up or not.
FWIW, you can forgive without repentance. Its not like Urban did anything to ND anyways it was his own personal short comings.
I hope so - and its not about knowledge but how to drive the program and be forceful and be highly accountable. He is being too too nice.
Georgia's roster still had more talent on it post-Richt than ours did when Kelly left.
No power five school in the country would want that quarterback room!
The fundamental problem is our offense. We have a MAC-level quarterback and, what, two or three quality starters who are older than sophomores (Mayer, Patterson, Tyree who I'd argue is our third RB at this point). It's a young group.
