To me it is clear now. Notre Dame is not now or ever will be a successful spread team. Why? Ask Nebraska why they were not a bill callahan west coast team. Paul Johnson's option is the way to go. We are a team that has always prided itself on having big uglies upfront and running the ball and stopping the run. All this pansy shotgun on 3rd and 1garbage will never cut it with our team. I like BK and believe he is a good coach, but , he needs to build his scheme to fit the players and not the other way around. We need to dominate the line of scrimage, until that happens enjoy never being close to what we used to be.
I don't know Bro...what I can say is our QB seems to be upright most of the time, and our current o-line does not look like a sieve. Seems to me our o line is suited for this attack.
Players or Scheme supremacy...for a new coach, both is your answer.
No one ignores the talent they have, and the profile of the kid they get...
on D we are now in the right scheme based on what we have, and who we will get....no one would argue that..
On offense, we don't get the #s of big uglies we used to get. We do get smart guys that aren't the elite...as the '07 season showed you, if you do not have an O-line capable of executing the blocks...things go bad....did things get markedly better after that...Jimmy was a punching bag his entire career. Pro style didn't work...we don't get the big uglies to run the paul johnson option...so then what...
So based on our personnel, I think we have a great offensive scheme....
look back at the USC game of '05...the drive quinn&co put together when we were down like 14 to 7...quick reads, some times from a shotgun...2-3 count and out...unstopable.
The fit was there then...so I think if anything we have been denying our offensive identity for the last 6 years... (yea we put up #s, but our QB got killed, and we could not hold off defenses at the end of games to save our ***...for specific citation...go watch the Navy game from last year)
We are in the schemes we need to be in for the foreseeable future...as well these schemes seem to utilize what we have as well as any other...schemes are new on both sides so things will get better...
yea I'm pissed we keep losing but a sceme can't make your guys take care of the football, and wrap up on tackles...which BTW if we do those VERY fundamental things, we are 3 and 0.
