Absolutely. Makes me roll my eyes when people try to point at one play. It was a cumulative failure from multiple aspects. Now learn from it, grow as a team, and finish the season with pride. This is the type of loss that can galvanize a team and light a fire under them.
Yeah there’s a lot more to it than simply “how does this happen?”
Calm down. I’m specifically talking about the final drive when OSU went right down the field when ND looked to be in position to win. Just like in Stanford in 2015. I literally had friends congratulating ND on the win via text before the final drive & cussed them for assuming a win that year so maybe it’s PTSD from the moment.Sure enough. Just like last night when the QB we were told lacked the moxie & experience to win under the big lights at ND stadium threw an absolute dart to the one yard line. Before that he had WR running wide open. So to be clear, that final drive was Van Gorder-esque in real time.
I don't know what it felt like in the stadium but watching on TV that was definitely a big loud home game. For all the fretting beforehand (and an hour before kickoff) about Ohio State "taking over" the stadium.
I’m 31 and been to every big home game besides Bush Push and that was by far the best environment we’ve ever had. I have no idea how it came across on tv (especially with NBC’s intention to mute crowd noise). It was truly insane and LOUD.
His name is Al Washington. And he is here to recruit.
I can’t re watch, Henderson looked lost too (is that accurate) … almost like they were expecting a Hail Mary last play jump ball, ridiculous
Obviously freeman isn’t making any in season personnel changes after the game, but the media better ask freeman Monday what he’s changing structurally so that never happens again
He does, but he needs to eat, maybe at the expense of Estime. His speed is electric, but more importantly he gets the ball and hits it hard. If a hole is not there he just runs into any little crease he can see and keeps going forward until another little crease opens. Estimeis awesome but he pussy foots around too much when the hole isnt there, and he rarely sees the cutback lane. He had a couple plays for no gain when a jump cut back to his right at the handoff and he had lots of daylight. Nobody in his face or the backfield, he just want left where the line was stonewalled Nd nothing was opened up.
He's not going to give a specific answer because it would point the finger at a specific person if the ball gets dropped down the line, and if one thing has been clear in the year-plus of MF, it's that he's going to take the blame and the responsibility because he believes as head coach it's ultimately on him, even if someone else is more directly responsible. His response last night was "that's on me" and you can take that or leave it. He's not going to give an answer that doesn't put himself in the line of fire first.
If Harper does notice he absolutely has an obligation to just run across the line of scrimmage presnap and make contact with somebody to take the penalty and get another guy on the field.
Lol he didn’t even know what to be responsible for yet last night they were so clueless
They didn’t know until super late, Ohio state substituted and nd had 37 seconds to get someone on… remember we had 10 only on also play before and nd didn’t know then
Harper is a veteran - and you might also think Cross would’ve noticed there was nobody to his right? - but it’s a lot to expect a player to make that move in that situation.
He was asked about the 10 men. He said he knew and he told his guys to stay off and just go with the 10. He's telling you he's responsible for it. That's his answer. Not sure how else to spell it out for you.
His explanation was total BS. Makes no sense when you consider it happened on consecutive plays, after a TO.
Our defense played great until the last possession. And really just two plays of it. Normally we would have no business scoring only 14 points and beating Ohio State but we were one missing DL away from doing just that.
You can take or leave the explanation, but it's not going to change. His explanation for not running the 11th out there when they realized the problem makes sense (you don't have to agree with it, but that doesn't change that it makes sense, OSU would get two plays from the 1 or less versus 1 play and he likes the odds of stopping them once instead of twice). It doesn't explain sending 10 out there out of the timeout, but his response there is going to be the same, he's the head coach and it's ultimately on him.