ber of underclassmen reportedly with track speed. Why is it ND's speedy freshmen can't even see the field but Clemson's can play and excel. And why is it someone like Pride, who might be the fastest guy in the ACC, can't find his way to a few touches? It's about more than elite speed; it's about putting players in a position to maximize their talents.
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Other teams play freshman at every position. QB, RB, WR, whatever. We can never seem to play them because they are "not ready" or haven't "learned the system". For fuck's sake, just play them. Like Floyd, Walker and others, they can contribute quality minutes. No excuse for not seeing Lenzy, Keyes, Austin or Young last night. Its maddening. Kelly even plays freshmen on the Offensive and Defensive lines. WTF?!?!
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The personnel choices were fine. I think at last count 7 freshman burned eligibility this season, which is a pretty big number. A couple linebackers, two corners, a receiver, a safety. They spread it around.
Whether he is right or wrong is irrelevant. It was a dick move to tweet that.
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The number of people tweeting all sunshine and rainbows after that debacle was embarrassing.
If he had attacked a coach, no problem. Fair game.
Tony Rice could have done the same thing to him in '12, but he had too much class to do it.
If anything, Eifert is more qualified to state that than anyone here. It was embarrassing no matter who you blame. Notre Dame had a month to prepare for that game and dropped another egg on the national stage. The entire team and staff should be embarrassed by that outcome. It's perfectly fine to both recognize everything they accomplished this year and while simultaneously recognizing that the Cotton Bowl was another embarrassing performance.
Kelly is where this should be directed.
Criticizing the whole team is unfair. There were a lot of guys who performed well. If he's going to be enough of a dick to kick them when their down a day after the game in public, then he should be a man and name names (of course that woul take real courage since it would result in more direct criticism personally toward him - but it would get to the root of the problem if he thinks it's so important).
The typical response I would expect to this is, "Well, we can't name names publicly, they are just college kids". Well. since they are college kids, why call them out publicly at all?
If i were Alohi Gillman, Dexter Willams, Julian Love, or Justin Yoon - I'd be pissed.
I am NOT saying that the game was not a huge disappointment. In fact, it only solidified the perception earned by Eifert and his peers performance in 2012 and will make it exceedingly unlikely for ND to make the CFP again unless we get some SEC teams on out schedule asap.
I disagree that Eifert is uniquely qualified to understand this and call them out. i think he is uniquely qualified to be silent. i wouldn't have liked it from an '88 or '77 team member, but I would have at least respected it more. His generic tweet does nothing more than split the house.
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I won’t rehash my points in the last post, but I was trying to make the point that along with bad timing and his own past history, Eifert painted with too broad of a brush.
Sometimes the truth hurts and the truth is, for whatever reason ND was unprepared out played and an embarrassment. If you don't believe so, go ask 5 friends who aren't ND fans and aren't ND haters what their opinion was of the game.
My wife is not an ND fan and this is the text I got during the game. "PS what happened to ND?" That's pretty telling, if you're willing to pull your head out of the sand.
out Kelly directly.
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and it might even help the program. But if Eifert Is referring to the players who tried but failed, then fuck him. 12-1. This team was better than all but 3 or 4 teams, and nobody is beating Ala or Clemson without cutting out real school and adding in Ostarine et al.
He’s a dick for putting such nonspecific condemnation of the team on social media. He’s stupid for doing it too. He’s a coward for not specifically explaining to whom he is referring. He is also a hypocrite since the narrative this team was trying to overcome was built primarily on his failure against Alabama in 2012.
Thus, Eifert in particular has no standing to rip on this team now. He would have standing to rip Kelly, but if that’s what he meant, he’s obviously too much of a puss to say so.
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At least he knows a stinking fart when he smells it.
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