The decision to make wholesale change rather than incremental seems to have been a bad one

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The decision to make wholesale change rather than incremental seems to have been a bad one

Author: LanceManion (9285 Posts - Joined: Jul 16, 2010)

Posted at 9:22 am on Sep 23, 2025

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Along with a poor coaching hire that couldn't get things where they needed to be by the first game.

Imposing corporate abuse, neglect and greed on deserving victims.

Replies to: "The decision to make wholesale change rather than incremental seems to have been a bad one"

No Change in the Calls: Freeman Backs Ash Despite Notre Dame Defensive Woes [NT] [LINK] - UHND - 8:14am 9/23/25 (16) [View All]
- None of this makes any sense. All of a sudden the players don't know how to play defense? [NT] - MarkHarman - 9:02am 9/23/25
  - It was the Men in Black flashy thing probably. [NT] - DiscoRick - 1:44pm 9/23/25
  - As has been repeated ad nauseam why not just run what we ran last year? - sweetbobbyg - 11:36am 9/23/25
  - It makes sense if they are adapting to a new system just as they did w Golden. But……. - BaronVonZemo - 11:10am 9/23/25
  - It makes total sense, some players are not following direction. - PaND - 9:40am 9/23/25
  - The decision to make wholesale change rather than incremental seems to have been a bad one - LanceManion - 9:22am 9/23/25
    - 👆well said! Succinct & spot on. If they haven’t fixed it by now, what makes you think they can? - sweetbobbyg - 11:41am 9/23/25
    - Except it's not a new system. From what I've read Ash is running the same base - Clem - 9:43am 9/23/25
      - At first u blame the new guy but if it continues then u blame the HC. [NT] - ndphysics - 11:41am 9/23/25
      - There seems to be a lot of confusion at both the line and secondary level. - LanceManion - 9:46am 9/23/25
        Truth. [NT] - Clem - 9:47am 9/23/25
    - Anytime you implement a new system, there is a learning curve - NDWisconsin - 9:32am 9/23/25
      - This is what I said below. The keyword, of several, is "buy-in". He tipped his cap that coach(es) - oldirish - 5:06pm 9/23/25
      - Your framing makes some sense, especially as he references lack of execution. - LanceManion - 9:43am 9/23/25
        Don't buy Mickens sabotage. He's the secondary coach - biggest statistical dropoff has been there - Turkish - 11:29am 9/24/25
        
        And to your point, incremental changes make it easier to observe success or lack of - NDWisconsin - 11:05am 9/23/25

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