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It makes total sense, some players are not following direction.
Author:
PaND
(2993 Posts - Joined: Dec 4, 2022)
Posted at 9:40 am on Sep 23, 2025
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They can see on the film what is happening.
Replies to: "It makes total sense, some players are not following direction."
No Change in the Calls: Freeman Backs Ash Despite Notre Dame Defensive Woes
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UHND
- 8:14am 9/23/25
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None of this makes any sense. All of a sudden the players don't know how to play defense?
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MarkHarman
- 9:02am 9/23/25
It was the Men in Black flashy thing probably.
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DiscoRick
- 1:44pm 9/23/25
As has been repeated ad nauseam why not just run what we ran last year?
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sweetbobbyg
- 11:36am 9/23/25
It makes sense if they are adapting to a new system just as they did w Golden. But…….
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BaronVonZemo
- 11:10am 9/23/25
It makes total sense, some players are not following direction.
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PaND
- 9:40am 9/23/25
The decision to make wholesale change rather than incremental seems to have been a bad one
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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?
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sweetbobbyg
- 11:41am 9/23/25
Except it's not a new system. From what I've read Ash is running the same base
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Clem
- 9:43am 9/23/25
At first u blame the new guy but if it continues then u blame the HC.
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ndphysics
- 11:41am 9/23/25
There seems to be a lot of confusion at both the line and secondary level.
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LanceManion
- 9:46am 9/23/25
Truth.
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Clem
- 9:47am 9/23/25
Anytime you implement a new system, there is a learning curve
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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)
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oldirish
- 5:06pm 9/23/25
Your framing makes some sense, especially as he references lack of execution.
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LanceManion
- 9:43am 9/23/25
Don't buy Mickens sabotage. He's the secondary coach - biggest statistical dropoff has been there
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Turkish
- 11:29am 9/24/25
And to your point, incremental changes make it easier to observe success or lack of
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NDWisconsin
- 11:05am 9/23/25