Who Will be the Next Coach at Notre Dame

I will not deviate from my statement.

Exhibit Alpha/Omega:

The "defensive" backfield.

And I use the phrase, advisedly.

 

All top 20-50 national recruits. Every damned one of them. Walls. Gray. Brown. All of them. Recruited by everybody. And then subjected to shitty coaching at Notre Dame.

 

Have to agree with Ben. Team speed was a huge issue on defense. Not sure if academic standards played a role or if they just recruited the wrong kids.

If you look at the top defensive teams they all have a bunch of quisi DB's / OLB's 6'2 190- 220 that can all run. I did not see a lot of those guys in South Bend.

 

So I guess if Florida wasn't "looking ahead" against Florida State the Gators would have won by 54 instead of 27?

The fact of the matter is this - there were three rivalry games between ACC and SEC teams this year - and everyone around here knows I am not at all an SEC fan boy - and the SEC teams showed up to play while their counterparts shat the bed......

 

For whatever reason, they've been horseshit back there for quite a while. Good teams with
anything resembling decent quarterbacking have carved them up like Christmas geese,
when they've had to. Even when Charlie had
Willingham's superior recruiting classes, the
secondary blew chunks when up against
genuine skill players.

Also, certain online scouting
services have markedly overrated Notre Dame
signing classes for a good while.

 

Offensive-minded coach with no prior college experience consistently has crappy secondary. Doesn't seem like a stretch to me.

Holding the past three administrations up and saying you can't recruit the right kids to Notre Dame is simply not fair. All it takes is the right coach. If Kelly can recruit the right kids to Cincy, he could do it at Notre Dame. Hell, Boise State has had some pretty good secondary players (Orlando Scandrick, Gerald Alexander). You can't tell me that Boise has a recruiting advantage over Notre Dame.

It is possible to be fast and smart.

 

It is . . . but the competition for these specimens is intense, and the lure of warm
weather in February is not to be underestimated.

 

And he schooled UGA last season. Badly. A much better UGA team, might I add.

He lost by a touchdown when his star receiver dropped a pass. I'm not saying he's a perfect coach, but to disregard him because of one game -- a game that was winnable, might I add, is ludicrous.

 

"Willingham's superior recruiting classes."

Yeah. OK.

And it was amazing to watch Toby Gerhart run over Notre Dame's amazingly slow defensive backs. Because that's the problem.

Please quit trotting out the same tired stereotypes about Notre Dame. They aren't true.

 

An undefeated national-championship contender that's a 25-point fave isn't going to
puke against Bobby's '09 trashheap.

 

Ty's recruits were better than Charlie's.

Even Pantload managed to make a couple of
BCS dates (though with preferred treatment, I know) with those kids. Not since.

 

Radio guy Doug Gottlieb intoned a moment ago that TCU's Patterson is on the short list of potential successors to Weis.