"It’s extremely difficult to win a football game when the other team’s running backs go for 315 yards on 37 carries. If the other guys can pick up 8.5 yards per carry, you need a lot of breaks to keep the game close, and just about everything else has to go perfectly. Notre Dame did their part; they threw one of the worst interceptions you’ll ever see on 3rd and goal at the 2, and they pretty regularly decided to maintain balance—coaches love “balance”!—by throwing when they could have just run the ball down USC’s throat on every down. Every pass play called was a gift."
Once gain ND needed a couple yards, and had a couple plays to get it, against a defense that they were pushing around and Denbrock went all Brian Kelly. Difference between OC's that think they need to outthink the opposition and OC's that are happy just taking the other teams' soul and stepping on it.
2 plays, right up the gut to get the TD and that game is over for all intents and purposes. But ND's OC chooses, once again, to get cute and give the other team life. And he'll never learn or change.
Replies to: "This paragraph perfectly sums up ND's only problem on offense:"
- This article is pure gold (and surprisingly well written for a USC guy). [NT]
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- BaronVonZemo - 9:15am 10/20/25
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- Looked up to see if the author was related to Roone Arledge, the great ABC sports producer - jrdjr84 - 4:00pm 10/20/25
- That's one frustrated SOB [NT] - McIrish - 12:46pm 10/20/25
- This paragraph perfectly sums up ND's only problem on offense: - Clem - 11:07am 10/20/25
- Yep. Ability to have balance is a tool to have, developed in game prep... - NedoftheHill - 1:48pm 10/20/25
- Extremely well said…they couldn’t stop Love/Price - WoodstockIrish - 12:49pm 10/20/25
- We should have won by at least 3 TDs, but kicking, red zone woes and play calling. - LanceManion - 11:41am 10/20/25
- Dominated enough where it counted...but going to have to shore up a number of areas to be a playoff - TakethetrainKnute - 11:47am 10/20/25
- Our secondary was billed as an A/A+ squad - WoodstockIrish - 12:50pm 10/20/25
- We somehow thought losing Watts would be offset by getting other guys healthy. - jakers - 3:27pm 10/20/25
- Our secondary was billed as an A/A+ squad - WoodstockIrish - 12:50pm 10/20/25
- Dominated enough where it counted...but going to have to shore up a number of areas to be a playoff - TakethetrainKnute - 11:47am 10/20/25
- The USC message boards were particularly in awe of Billy Schrauth. - Curly1918 - 10:02am 10/20/25
- So ... SC fans think SC was the object of bad officiating (1/5 yrds)??? Otherwise fair. [NT]
- LanceManion - 9:56am 10/20/25
- Hehe, that WAS funny. He is what he is afterall...a USC fan. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 8:04pm 10/20/25
- I listened to the USC radio broadcast of the game on youtube last night. - ELP - 10:11am 10/20/25
- Weather turned out merely wet for the second half. It was warmer than average... [NT]
- TakethetrainKnute - 11:50am 10/20/25
- Wasn’t bad at all…thankfully the harder rain was pre-game in the tailgate lots [NT] - WoodstockIrish - 12:52pm 10/20/25
- ND was definitely pulling at the rivalry aspect, and SC fans seemed to appreciate that - LanceManion - 11:38am 10/20/25
- Weather turned out merely wet for the second half. It was warmer than average... [NT]
- TakethetrainKnute - 11:50am 10/20/25