solid functioning unit. Yes, it's great media hype and does will for recruiting but you guys are too caught up in Stars and on paper size and stats. Even with Heistand (who was great) his OL's were soft and got pushed around. I can't recall the last time ND had a road grading unit that week in week out made solid DLs pay.
If this was not true you wouldn't see ND fail miserably in games like the playoff against real teams. And, you certainly wouldn't see what seems like a decade of inability to convert on 3rd and 2 or 4th and 1, when everyone in the house knows you are going to run it. More often than not, for ND, it's been a loss of 2 on these plays. The Achilles heel for quite some time has been picking up the tough yards. The run it up the gut type stuff. That is solely on the OL and we CAN'T do it.
ND OL's haven't consistently generated real push, in I don't know how long, but it feels like Holtz was the last guy to have a punishing OL.