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If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it probably is a duck

Another thought of mine. Why is 10-15th results acceptable? (its been the consistent result for decades now). ND promotes a top 5 product (a championship product), but are they top 5 in any of the components of a college football program that matter? (NIL, recruiting, talent, coaching staff, facilities, etc.?) And if not, why not? And who is being held accountable?
Cmon Chass, hold them accountable! Endow the HC position!!!!

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it probably is a duck

Colorado is selling out all their games they have celebrities on the sideline every week they have Hall of famers on their coaching staff they're climbing the talent rankings, their local economy is doing greater than ever, and everybody is talking about their football team and deion Sanders is probably making more money in marketing today than he has in his lifetime 🤣😭😂 Colorado and Coach prime is doing just fine
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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The question that needs an answer

This team has the least experienced OL of any ND team in memory. Their stats looked pretty good against TAM because Leonard bailed them out repeatedly with his legs, and our running backs broke off two great runs. But the line is a major weakness right now, and we knew there would be significant growing pains, and yesterday was definitely painful. The question was always whether the defense could carry this team while the offense SLOWLY developed. That’s still the question.
If Greathouse catches the perfectly thrown homerun ball, we win yesterday and we would be talking about escaping a perfect trap game, etc…. But he didn’t and we aren’t.
Three observations about Leonard that concerns me. First, we moved the ball perfectly on our first TD drive with Leonard using his legs as a designed weapon, and yet we hardly saw this the rest of the game. Did Leonard get hurt or did Denbrock decide it was too risky? Secondly, I can’t recall a ND qb throwing the ball so poorly on so many passes. Some misses were clearly on the qb and receiver not being on the same page, and we don’t if these were qb mistakes or receiver mistakes. But, we do know Leonard missed so badly on several passes that neither the target or his defender had a chance at catching the errant throw. Thirdly, how the hell does any college qb underthrow his receiver streaking downfield by at least ten yards, and at the games most critical moment? Inexcusable and inexplicable unless Leonard is hurt and we don’t know it.
Going forward, we have to get much better play at the qb position, and this has to account for an OL that will continue to experience growing pains, and allow pressure on the qb in passing situations. My gut tells me each of Angeli and Minchey and Carr is a better passer than Leonard, but is any one of these mobile enough and strong enough and composed enough to thrive while our OL SLOWLY comes of age? It’s up to Denbrock to answer this and make his case to Freeman.
I wonder if Leonard's right hand is hurt from banging it in the A&M game.
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Where's Golson5?

Who cares if anyone is wrong… Riley needs benched now to salvage season and freeman needs fired at end of year to salvage program

I stated freeman should have been fired in 21 when he was DC…. I hate that I was right … Kelly hiring freeman has set nd back big time

Freeman is just a moron that needs others to tell him what to do.
Yawn.

Leonard , Greathouse and Freeman are done.

I just think back to 1977. Like him or not, DEVINE was an extremely experienced head coach with both college and professional knowledge, yet even after coaching MONTANA for two full seasons And start of #3 he still had him at #3 on depth chart. And the ONLY REASON he got in at PURDUE was injuries to #1,2. So I would SAY 90% of Fan base KNEW MONTANA was better. Yet the coaches did not. WHY? I have NO F’ING CLUE !!!!! But this is bordering on that. I actually believe MINCHEY might be the guy. Give Angeli one half and depending on game circumstances MINCHEY 2nd half.
See what they can do. But REMEMBER EVEN at Clemson a seasoned winner was replaced in game three? With a Freshman And went on to win NC.
Sometimes coaching assessments are wrong. The good coach has a confidence to accept his ERRORS and try to make POSITIVE ADJUSTMENTS. Certainly without adjustments this team is 8-4 and that might be optimistic.
One or two players can change the WHOLE TRAJECTORY of the SEASON.
As bad as we played at QB, O line, play calling, defense miscues, turnovers, etc. put Brandon AUBREY on this team and we are 2-0.
One player addition can make the difference.
Very disappointed in current team play.
So let’s see what adjustments, if any, are made.

Devine's refusal to start Montana was two-fold: Montana suffered a dislocated shoulder that cost him the 1976 season in pre-season camp after being named the starter. Montana did not do well in spring practice in 1977, yet he played in the bookstore basketball tournament over Devine's objections and Devine pretty much blew a gasket over it and refused to play Montana until he absolutely had to.

That said, I agree that someone else needs to be given a shot to lead this team.

Where's Golson5?

Who cares if anyone is wrong… Riley needs benched now to salvage season and freeman needs fired at end of year to salvage program

I stated freeman should have been fired in 21 when he was DC…. I hate that I was right … Kelly hiring freeman has set nd back big time

Freeman is just a moron that needs others to tell him what to do.

I think it's funny

That the offense completely shit the bed.

And the "journalists" running a paid site that knows they have competition for their viewership / subscriptions

Have the gall to call out this teams defense and leave the putrid offense production and ST execution as an aside to the main article as if that weren't the main reason for the collapse.

Mind you they've created no articles calling out the lack of offense. Their main point was that NDs defense didn't shut everything down and create turnover and pick 6s.

I for one come here to read journalism before slap dicking on the message boards and this is just pathetic. These guys get to talk to coaches and get more inside info than we could ever dream of.

Is this the hot takes ND information site or are you guys serious? Or we just covering cuz you guys thought Denbrock was the big breakfast with hotcakes? Or you're worried about being booted from interviews if you write a slam piece?

Perhaps the booing started here...

Ian Book. Dude was 35-5 as a starter, navigated two undefeated regular seasons, and his teams made the 4-team CFB Playoff twice. If you booed IB, IMO, that was a you problem.

Tommy Rees as a QB took a lot of criticism. From all angles. So the booing would not surprise me there.
I can't remember the game but Ian ran for a touchdown (probably the winning score) after being maligned by the home crowd and he made some kind of gesture as if to say, "Now what do you think?" Someone with a better memory, please refresh mine.
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