38 times in a monsoon. He could never help himself. The problem with his offenses is that it's so dependent on everyone being perfect especially at the QB position. I do see some of that with Rees though he has definitely made a more concerted effort to run the ball more since he's been OC. I've always felt the ND identify on offense should be a pounding run game considering the high quality and numbers of offensive lineman that ND has sent to the NFL, and these dudes just aren't on rosters, they start. To make the Kelly offense go, it definitely needs a very good QB. He currently has Daniels at LSU. The guy had very good statistics at Arizona St. Even watching him play seems like this is what Tommy needs as well. Kelly had some decent QB's at ND, but he never had any studs and some of the ones that were pretty good one year, seemed to regress the next. Book was solid. If he would have been able to throw down field much more productively, ND could have maybe won a NC or come much closer than they did. My biggest gripe about the Kelly offense at ND was that in the playoffs or on the big stage in general, they couldn't even muster 20 points. I get that you have to give some credit to the other team's defense but the teams winning the NC are typically extremely prolific on offense. So was the issue Kelly, scheme, QB, WR or a combination of all? I think mostly Kelly was set in his ways, but also not having a true stud QB didn't help. I will give kudos to Book for his time at ND. He won a lot of games.