I agree entirely. Sorry if this was posted before.
Link: https://www.si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-needs-to-want-to-run-better
Georgia rushing against ranked teams this season:
ND: 33 for 152, 4.6 ypc
Florida: 37 for 119, 3.2
Auburn: 36 for 141, 3.9
LSU: 25 for 61, 2.4
Georgia has four backs who would all start for Notre Dame, three in the top 100 of their class, and one of the best offensive lines in football. They averaged 13 more yards per game on the ground on one more carry than us this year. The yards per carry difference is 4.86 (ND) to 5.07 (UGA).
Does Georgia not "want" to run the football enough against the top teams? Their problem this season was the same as ours. They didn't have enough of a passing game to compliment the offense, even with Fromm.
It isn't about "want". They need to be better as a team, across the board.
Against a cherry picked four games for Georgia?
Four of the toughest defenses in college football? Just checking
Georgia: 485 carries, 2,461 yards, 5.07 per carry, 189.31 yards a game
Notre Dame: 436 carries, 2,119 yards, 4.86 per carry, 176.58 yards per game
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site that serves a particular fan base like 247 and Rivals. Driskell was tolerable when he was reigned in by Lou Somogyi -- whose amiable personality somehow enabled him to tolerate Driskell's condescending interruptions and corrections during their podcasts -- at Blue & Gold but, his site is just his stream of consciousness blogging where everything proves everything he thinks. It's a mess.
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Just my opinion.
I used to be a subscriber for the three big services, Irish Illustrated, Blue and Gold, and ISD. After a while it became apparent that ISD with Mike Frank had no access to the program like the Prister and Somogyi did. I eventually dropped ISD.
Frank at one point hired Driskell to do write ups and cohost his podcast to do the Football side since Frank was more on the recruiting side. Eventually it became apparent to me that these guys knew as much as I did, which wasn't much compared to the other publications, but the difference was that they like to sound very confident that they do. It's just amazing how wrong those two were about everything compared to the other sites. Mike Frank also has a chicken little persona that gets old.
When Driskell joined Blue and Gold i kept my subscription, but it just got worse, all of a sudden he's now a basketball expert and a recruiting expert with his own rankings and he was still wrong about everything. Now it seems like Irish Illustrated is the only quality site.
I wonder how Driskell is going to do on his own without Somogyi's access to the program.
lllustrated, which is my favorite for ND football. I am not quite sure what to make of the new Irish Maven and its podcast, thus my question.
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Driskell is a douche bag but he knows football, Irish football.
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