Basketball MBB: Game Thread | North Carolina 74, Notre Dame 73 (Final)
- By Tyler James
- The Insider Lounge
- 58 Replies
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Agree w you.......but everyone isn't healthy. Our best players are hurt.I think ND is a bad match up for a tom Allen defense. He runs a 4-2-5 most of the time and blitz comes from the slot or corners. He likes to put pressure on the qb from there. If everyone is healthy then I see no reason ND doesn’t win.
Well Notre Dame did make it to the final four, earning it by beating 2 Top 10 teams. BK could never beat one top 10 team during a season let alone two. In his last season at ND he lost to Cincinnati at home. A far less talented team than ND. BK was consistently out coached in big games, leaves and blames his failures on the school. Freeman just disproved Kelly's take in a big way.When you finish regular seasons undefeated and make 2 or 4 team playoffs on three separate occasions you are more than good. All 3 seasons were damn good accomplishments.
I’m not certain Notre Dame gets in a 4 team playoff this season.
Well that's good to hear. But everyone is not healthy.I think ND is a bad match up for a tom Allen defense. He runs a 4-2-5 most of the time and blitz comes from the slot or corners. He likes to put pressure on the qb from there. If everyone is healthy then I see no reason ND doesn’t win.
Baumann and Sherwood competent blockers also.Out for the rest of CFP
By my count that is the 10th key contributor we've lost for the season now. 9 if you count Jagusah as back
Evans and Raridon need to play well and continue to improve their blocking
What about the NY6 fiesta bowl vs Ohio State? ND was never in that game. Meyer took mercy on ND and took the foot off the pedal or it would have been much worse a defeat. This was a non playoff major bowl game.That's wrong, you are mischaracterizing ND's previous playoff defeats. They weren't 'decent' teams. All three of our playoff losses, including 2012 Bama. Dominant all year, and won the national title. You know who was a 'decent' team, the UGA team we just beat. They were merely decent, the other teams BK lost to were dominant. That's basically a matter of fact, and transcends any personal opinion. So that's just wrong. It's incorrect.
I think Georgia was somewhat fortunate to catch ND with a decimated defense missing more than half its starters, and an injured OL. Imagine if ND was 100% on D and on the OL what the score would have been.I do think we were somewhat fortunate to catch Georgia without their QB and in a somewhat down year for them. They did win the SEC but seem more inconsistent than their recent dominant teams. Still a great victory on a big stage. We really took it to them from the start.