1). Much better effort than against BSU
2). Vanderbilt is good, their QB and DB’s are great.
3) Gloria matched up well to our tall receivers - excellent & tall DB’s
4). OL protected pretty well and opened big holes for RB’s
5). Wimbush is very definitely the best QB that we have right now
6). Yoon’s Miss was on the snapper though Book did a good job of still bringing in the errant snap
7). ND is going to REALLY benefit when it gets Dexter Williams back
8) in the past 3 games, the ND defense was very good in all phases except continuing to give up long 3rd downs (I think that this is mostly due to the fact that we have played some really good QB’s thus far).
9). Special teams was better (esp Doerer), I’d give them. “C” overall, but much room for improvement still.
NDis not going to blow teams out with this offense so stop expecting it.
We have no game breakers on offense other than Wimbush (but getting Dexter back will give us 2).
ND’s WR’s are bland & unremarkeable when their height advantage is negated & they don’t create separation
Kelly’s (plural) play calling still poor (that 2 point conversion attempt call with Book perhaps the worst of all).
The 2nd half ND offensive stagnation problem is mostly d/t play calling on our part, not D adjustments.
Platooning Book in for Wimbush at goal line when W is playing well is stupid & takes away best O weapon.
Take away the name “Vanderbilt” & watch game-we should be happy with this win regardless. Great QB.
We are certainly not a top 5 team right now.
Facing this team will prepare us better for Stanford given their similarities on offense.