Buchner and Pyne's performances last year were uninspiring and well below average. We all saw it. The quarterback ratings showed it also. Insert a decent QB like the ones mentioned in the post and you surely have a 2-1 or maybe even a 3-0 record.
Check Notre Dames QB ratings throughout the first 3 games and you have 110 or more teams with better ratings. Notre Dame should have gotten a wide receiver from the portal also. Besides Styles, I don't think any of the receivers would be a starter for any of today's top 25 teams.
The article was spot on on all accounts, including Rees. He has done absolutely nothing so far to be considered a decent OC. No QB recruiting, no QB development and no QB recruited this year. None, zilch, zero. Let's keep plodding along with our terrific duo for next year too, with the addition of another very average QB in Angeli. I never thought I would miss our last two very average QBs in Book and Coan but I sure do.
Hopefully Freeman realizes what a huge mistake he made during the offseason by trusting Rees and fixes it permanently during the offseason or he won't last long.