Saturday night's 4th quarter being an exception, where ND kept pounding the ball against the right side of USC's defense.
But too often - and this isn't exclusive to Notre Dame - I see football team after football team refuse to keep doing what works. USC, for example, could have run Stepp 40 times and ND had no answers for him. But thank goodness he only had 10 carries. You might say ND could have then keyed in on him, but then that would have opened up their passing game. Fortunately, USC's playcalling looked pretty random, just like Long's does.
When Book actually throws some mid-range passes down the middle, often times the results are pretty good. But Long/Kelly seem to prefer sideways passes to stationary receivers at the line of scrimmage, which often don't work, over and over and over. Yes, I do not understand football coaches.