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The "fire Freeman" stuff is just silly.

Does anyone think Bevacqua would make waves like this his first year and fire the football coach? I don't.

Even at 9-3, I think Freeman is back for 25. And I'm good with that.
It's not silly because it's unlikely to happen. It should happen. He's been awful in 21, 22, 23, and now 24. He's awesome when the season isn't being played from January - July. But he is absolutely clueless as a coach on how to run a team. He can get the team fired up and locked in for One, maybe 2 games a year. That's his MO. We're 2-2 in those games, one of the losses due to his coaching blunders.

Another year...same old, same old ineffective QB

Riley Leonard's numbers weren't that great at Duke, barely a 60% completion rate, 12 interceptions to 24 TD's, and 7 yards per pass tells you he doesn't have a strong arm. Not sure where all this hype came from, but Riley Leonard is not a 1st round NFL. draft pick.
RL was terrible. Any QB can inflate completion % by throwing 2/3 yard passes. You need a deep threat & big arm to keep defenses honest. I don’t want see that Duke player again. Empty the bench.

Anybody know how much $$$ ND paid to bring Leonard in?

Not directly but you can’t tell me the school doesn’t at least know what’s going on with the “collectives”.
The collectives at every school work in conjunction with the respective schools compliance department. Our agency partners with schools athletic departments and compliance offices in an advisory capacity. Absolutely they know what each athlete in all sports is receiving through NIL collectives.
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Another year...same old, same old ineffective QB

Our offense sucks. It sucked against A&M and it sucked even worse against NIU and that's why we lost. The defense is playoff and maybe even championship caliber. And the offense is fair to middling and even lousy in every category and position group. I don't know exactly where RL fits into that mix, and just how middling or not he really is, regardless of his stats at the end of the day. But we cannot generate offense and yards and points predictably and reliably enough. Which is a shame because the defense is excellent.

So hopefully we get better.
I checked the embarrassing games of the past, Marshall, 2022-Stanford. The pattern is easy to see. We lost none of those games by being outscored 48-45 big12-style shootout. In all of them we would go 3 quarters without much scoring. Then any 4th qtr the over is deadly.

It was also true for some of the games we wound up winning Cal, 2023 Duke, 2021 Toledo; we get into the 4th qtr and where are the points?

That is why I think we have a systemic failure, meaning we are running the wrong system.
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