My feeling at this point is Freeman is a great recruiter but a so, so strategist.
Way too conservative. The big problem is if you won't trust your QB to be a QB get a portal guy.
You don't design an entire gameplan around protecting your QB (soft defense and conservative ofdense) and expect to win on the road against a top ten team.
Gotta shake the Tressel ball mentality. It doesn't work against good teams.
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Poor coaching top to bottom. All out coached last night.
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I think the lesson is: if you are going to front load schedules, which we will, our QB needs reps
the year prior in a meaningful way, It's a lot to ask to put a rookie QB in a position where his learning snaps are against top 20 teams.
That said, TX pretty much did the same thing to Arch Manning in playing OSU, and he and CJ played fairly comparably with very similar gameplans and very similar results.
Contrast our game vs. Miami with SCUM's game vs. New Mexico. Bryce Underwood is being hailed as the second coming.
Yep totally agree. No reason not to play him last year.
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My point is maybe given the injury Minchey should have gotten reps
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Both he and Carr should have gotten reps
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Totally disagree. Helping CJ succeed was part of the gameplan. Conservative? Yes but
the right call. Freeman is a terrific CEO. Denbrock needs to be the primary strategist after consulting with Freeman about game plans.
The correct approach is develop him last year. Not game 1.
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If success is a 3 point loss, but develop your QB I agree.
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I'm all for easing the rook in but not at the expense of going away from who you are
and say you want to be, which is a physical, downhill running team.
Denbrock went all Brian Kelly and was too cute by half. Establishing the run game makes Carr's job easier by itself.
Their defense vwas stacked to stop Love. The original drive looked solid with the short passes,
Love should have been sprinkled in more at that point, or a play over the top might have worked.
But Miami adjusted to that plan, and stopped it. And ND continued doing it.
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it’s like ND didn’t play in the national championship game last year.
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The consensus view last year by outsiders was that he outcoached Smart and Franklin
He is a very capable strategist. Offense game plan failed until too late in the game. That is on Freeman and Denbrock but they did make good adjustments.
The defense also stiffened late but never got the big play.