Saturday night's 4th quarter being an exception, where ND kept pounding the ball against the right side of USC's defense.
But too often - and this isn't exclusive to Notre Dame - I see football team after football team refuse to keep doing what works. USC, for example, could have run Stepp 40 times and ND had no answers for him. But thank goodness he only had 10 carries. You might say ND could have then keyed in on him, but then that would have opened up their passing game. Fortunately, USC's playcalling looked pretty random, just like Long's does.
When Book actually throws some mid-range passes down the middle, often times the results are pretty good. But Long/Kelly seem to prefer sideways passes to stationary receivers at the line of scrimmage, which often don't work, over and over and over. Yes, I do not understand football coaches.
"Don't get bored with your play calling". If somethings working, keep doing it til the other team stops it.
BK has never subscribed to this line of thinking.
the same thing but would lose narrowly to Holtz, whose teams had better overall talent, notably stars like Ismail and Watters from PA.
PSU won in 86, 87, 90, and 91.
ND won in 88, 89, and the last one in 92.
his program, year 3, And in '86 Lou, taking over a moribund program, his first yr, lost 24-19 against Paterno's EVENTUAL NATL CHAMP, and ND had a first and goal at PSU 6 in closing minutes.. In '87, Lou lost by 1 pt, 21-20. electing to go for two on last score and the win and in '90, ND blew a 21-7 halftime lead when Rocket missed 2nd half sustaining an injury in last minute of first half..
Ill take Lou any day of the week over that stinkin phony..
I never could stand Paterno but the record is what it is.
those losses still stick in my craw, such is my hatred for that cesspool.....
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'87 at PSU was probably the coldest day I ever attended a football game....and the '92 game, the 4th down 3 or 4 yd pass to Jerome Bettis to get with 1, then the two pointer to Reggie Brooks did a lot to help dim those other two losses..
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