But practice it against bad teams. Not top 20 ones. Heck the Detroit Lions played a ton of man last year. And it worked just fine.
I think they wanted to go to a more ball control scheme offensively and defensively. Control the pace of the game against teams like USC and OSU. Stop big plays. Make them work underneath. Or at least an ability to do it. Makes sense. But you have to be able to run it effectively. Or it's a disaster like we see.
ND has the athletes to play man. So play man.
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