Get Nasty said:

Dumb comment of the week

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This team was not prepared for NIU and NIU was 100% prepared for ND. Fact is, everyone lives for the chance to come into ND stadium and play like its their super bowl against the irish. ND gets everyones' best shot, regardless of how inferior that team might be. What all of us saw this weekend was an inferior team on paper out play us and a coaching staff out scheme us. The A&M game was a little deceiving. I for one knew that game was going to be a dog fight against a good opponent and any W was plenty good enough. I got lulled into thinking that the ineptness at QB was simply game one rust and then playing a very good A&M defense. We now know we have a terrible QB, and an Oline that can easily be confused with exotic looks pre snap. NIU did a very good job of disguising schemes and movement before the ball was snapped...

ND's defense is A-OK, in fact, they're probably one of the more elite defenses in the country. I don't care who we're playing, if we hold an opponent to 16pts, we should be winning that game.

Either way, i'm tired of the season being practically over in September. Barring major chaos in the polls and IF ND can get its shit together, the post season is pretty much out of the question.

Get Nasty said:

Less than 300 yds vs NIU, Love had 11 touches all game, NIU ran the same play over and over and over.

Ready for this one. ND only got in the red zone ONCE vs a frichan MAC team at home with perfect weather. This is a team supposed to compete for a title.

Yes he folded as a coach and had no clue what to do in game and it's why he had no clue in his PC after the game.

As a former player you know, their prep had to be an absolute disaster despite whatever freeman said. NIU ran exactly what they did the week before offensively and defensively. The team was not prepared well at all. It's almost like Freeman said "we're going to focus on being physical this week" vs actually watching film and having a game plan vs NIU. NIU had about 5 plays they ran the entire game. Defensively, same thing. Not once did we stop a jet sweep, or have a plan for them pulling, or their wildcat, or splitting the RB out. Simple stuff.

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Not prepared yet took the opening kickoff and marched right down the field. I never bought that silly argument. Again, bad game. All the hindsighting in the world won't change it.Put in the work and getting better is the only thing that can prevent it from happening again.

I have seen multiple high profile bloggers reference the NIU loss as "inexcusable". Now, what exactly does that and should that mean? If it can't be excused....what should come next? The lack of preparation for, and adjustments in the NIU game are quite surprising. Its as if imposters were on the sidelines coaching this game. But then again....to some extent....maybe they were.

Quest4Twelve said:

I'll never give into that's the best time to take a shot. B effing S! You haven't established a downfield passing game all year and you obviously can't stop NIU's running attack consistently. Get the 1st down and continue to bleed the clock for a tuddy or a field goal.

I swear no matter who calls plays for ND gets struck by the BK sickness.

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All year ? It's game 2. If you didn't take the opportunity that presented itself there you'd be crazy. You might only get a look like that once or twice a game.

echowaker said:

Willingham and Weis got rid of themselves. If Freeman follows their path he will to. Again horrible loss. There's no debate about that but folded ? That's dumb.

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Less than 300 yds vs NIU, Love had 11 touches all game, NIU ran the same play over and over and over.

Ready for this one. ND only got in the red zone ONCE vs a frichan MAC team at home with perfect weather. This is a team supposed to compete for a title.

Yes he folded as a coach and had no clue what to do in game and it's why he had no clue in his PC after the game.

As a former player you know, their prep had to be an absolute disaster despite whatever freeman said. NIU ran exactly what they did the week before offensively and defensively. The team was not prepared well at all. It's almost like Freeman said "we're going to focus on being physical this week" vs actually watching film and having a game plan vs NIU. NIU had about 5 plays they ran the entire game. Defensively, same thing. Not once did we stop a jet sweep, or have a plan for them pulling, or their wildcat, or splitting the RB out. Simple stuff.

Disagree. It was the perfect call against the defensive set. Double post with your fastest receiver in single coverage. It was a no brainer . When you get the match up you want you have to try and exploit it. Great call, lousy execution.

NDinNJ said:

Look it up it's out there. I'm not going to do your research for you. You are just so anti Notre Dame you can't fathom that anyone ND recruits would also receive offers from elite programs. You are the biggest loser on this forum.

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Have you considered that I may just be as loyal to the evidence as I claim that I am, and that I'm not your adversary, but the data/evidence/reality itself is?

Also I don't know how many posts I made on the topic of Notre Dame's lackluster recruiting but the fact that people still talk about Marcus Freeman like he's improve the recruiting at Notre Dame just blows my mind because it runs contrary to all the evidence

Marcus Freeman is not recruiting any better than the previous coach that was here and recruiting worse than the coach before that coach (Charlie Weis)

So he's essentially not getting it done on the field nor the recruiting trail

Get Nasty said:

I know it's not going to happen, but fans and the media should be calling for it (until or unless he gives everyone a reason not to). That's how you get someone to be let go at season end. It's how ND was able to get rid of willingham and Weis. Everyone was calling for it most of their last year and especially at the end when the folded. Freeman folded game 2.

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Willingham and Weis got rid of themselves. If Freeman follows their path he will to. Again horrible loss. There's no debate about that but folded ? That's dumb.

Get Nasty said:

I call BS, and I don't think i'm some defensive genius at all. I think freeman is an absolute moron that lines up with his ACT score. He's a fraud that's gotten where he is due to the fact he is a very very unique personality that resonates extremely well with the players, ADs, community, etc. But he has absolutely no clue what he's doing, especially offensively, and even defensively.

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Another irrational thought.

echowaker said:

Pretty sure Marcus Freeman's discarded toe nail clippings know significantly more about defensive football then you'll ever hope to. Your trades are just that. Yes they lost and we all hate it. Ten more games to go. Players and coaches don't have the luxury of pissing and moaning all week after a loss. Time to get back to work. In 1989 at MSU we lost 4 of our first 6 games by a total of 21 points. Three of the losses were to top 5 teams. We didn't whine but kept working and ended the season winning 6 in a row. Two choices.

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I call BS, and I don't think i'm some defensive genius at all. I think freeman is an absolute moron that lines up with his ACT score. He's a fraud that's gotten where he is due to the fact he is a very very unique personality that resonates extremely well with the players, ADs, community, etc. But he has absolutely no clue what he's doing, especially offensively, and even defensively. It was Luke's D at Cinci, and kelly had to step in and correct Freeman's attempt at his own D at ND. It was absolutely moronic until kelly stepped in, and kelly isn't a defensive guy.

Yes, Freeman needs to win 10 in a row now, he probably hangs on with 9-1 the rest of the year. More than 2 losses is a guaranteed firing.

Would love to have Jack Coan this year.

echowaker said:

That's irrational. It's not going to happen and you know that. Quite silly actually. It's not how the business works. An absolute gut wrenching loss for sure but no one is getting fired after week two based on game results .

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I know it's not going to happen, but fans and the media should be calling for it (until or unless he gives everyone a reason not to). That's how you get someone to be let go at season end. It's how ND was able to get rid of willingham and Weis. Everyone was calling for it most of their last year and especially at the end when the folded. Freeman folded game 2.

Get Nasty said:

Oh yes, everyone on here knows that. How terribly unprepared we were for Louisville AND clemson with awesome environments was enough. Now, i gave him credit for landing denbrock and bringing in what I thought was some good WR portal players and possibly a good QB. Not close to good enough, the problem is freeman is still here.

I wanted freeman gone after FSU 2021 because the defense was so unprepared for that game, and freeman had no clue how to adjust, freeman had to step in and tell him what to do (stop dropping foskey into pass coverage). The defense is typically way ahead of the offense game 1, our D in 2021 was so far behind. Kelly stepped in and had him change the D he developed and coached for 9 months because it was moronic.

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Pretty sure Marcus Freeman's discarded toe nail clippings know significantly more about defensive football then you'll ever hope to. Your trades are just that. Yes they lost and we all hate it. Ten more games to go. Players and coaches don't have the luxury of pissing and moaning all week after a loss. Time to get back to work. In 1989 at MSU we lost 4 of our first 6 games by a total of 21 points. Three of the losses were to top 5 teams. We didn't whine but kept working and ended the season winning 6 in a row. Two choices.

BGI User 756 said:

Bahaha, how the narrative changes…

Oh…wait…it’s about money? So F+ doesn’t count? And losing to Nebraska?

Lol, I do enjoy exposing you repeatedly and then watching you use your other handles to come to your rescue. So money and recognition? Then why do you 💩 on ND? They make plenty of money. They get highest ratings. They have celebs all over. The SB economy absolutely kills it on football weekends …

In case you missed it, all those HOF coaches aren’t improving the team. All 3 Sanders are leaving this year …

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Colorado was one of the worst P4 programs in college football prior to Deion Sanders arrival. Since he got there, everything over there is ascending.

ND and Colorado are two very different programs on two very different ends of the spectrum with two very different levels of resources tradition brand etc I don't hold them to the same standard as a result.

Colorado winning a handful of football games and selling out their stadium is a success at Colorado given where that program is in college football

At Notre Dame it's national title or bust

Get Nasty said:

Freeman should be let go can not be said enough… it should be stated in every thread, every angle possible

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That's irrational. It's not going to happen and you know that. Quite silly actually. It's not how the business works. An absolute gut wrenching loss for sure but no one is getting fired after week two based on game results .

christophero said:

I think if we played Texas or Georgia we would find out the defense is not championship caliber. Playoff caliber perhaps.

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A&M showed our young lbs got a little confused in coverage with split outs. NIU exploited it.

A&M showed we don't have a SDE, NIU exploited it. They pulled 2 linemen to the Strong side over and over and over and over again, and golden never adjusted. Burnham is not a SDE, he's a WDE but we have 2 better players there. THE SDE needs to push or hold off the RT into the pulling linemen to shrink the hole and room they have to pull and block. Instead, he was getting pushed back letting NIU linemen have a hole and free run at our LBs. We had the issue some last year with JJB because he was more pass rusher than run stuffer, but he was better than Burnham or Oben.

Our secondary is as good as it gets, and golden is smart enough to confuse a QB. NIU found a weakness, and Golden, freeman had no adjustment for it. The fact the staff thought oben and burnham could hold up at SDE is alarming, and had no plan B if they get destroyed, like they have been. Vernon, young, or someone needs to hold up the edge there. We aren't getting any pass rush so they can do what everyone else does and actually have a big strong SDE.

FightingIrish44 said:

Did you want him fired prior to this season, after the 2023 season had concluded?

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Oh yes, everyone on here knows that. How terribly unprepared we were for Louisville AND clemson with awesome environments was enough. Now, i gave him credit for landing denbrock and bringing in what I thought was some good WR portal players and possibly a good QB. Not close to good enough, the problem is freeman is still here.

I wanted freeman gone after FSU 2021 because the defense was so unprepared for that game, and freeman had no clue how to adjust, freeman had to step in and tell him what to do (stop dropping foskey into pass coverage). The defense is typically way ahead of the offense game 1, our D in 2021 was so far behind. Kelly stepped in and had him change the D he developed and coached for 9 months because it was moronic.

Pennick4 said:

Maybe Freeman should get pissed off like BK at a press conference.

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I would just prefer freeman have a clue at what's going on good or bad. I don't care if he's pissed off or not in front of the media. But he even stated he has no clue. That's not acceptable. WE ALL ARMCHAIR COACHES can see it clearly.

This is like Buchner in 2022, everyone could see he couldn't throw the ball but Freeman and Rees. Everyone can see Riley can't throw it but Freeman and Denbrock. The common one is Freeman.

It's also clear they're playing WDE as a SDE and it's getting our run D crushed due to A&M pulling some at the SDE, and NIU pulling a ton towards the SDE. Burnham and Oben can NOT play SDE and set/push/crash the edge. Burnham ran a play down or two, but he got abused vs NIU.

88ND said:

@NDinNJ
The QB position got ruined under Kelly by allowing Book to stay on for 17 years.
Then I said over the prevuous two years that playing this portal game is ridiculously stupid.
Freemqm might be doing better than Kelly in some areas but he's definitely mimicking BK on how to choose and stay with the wrong QB.

I also said two years ago the best QB on the roster was Angeli.
#1 he was the only QB at the time with real QB height.
#2 his running ability or lack of will make us a better team because he will throw the ball down the field.
#3 This whole thing is so irritating...I can't help but think NIL is a force in this.

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I knew you couldn’t go a post or two without blaming Kelly somehow lol