This was a phrase used in a BGI spring article that kind of started questioning BVG's defense, but held the company line. I remember this phrase very well...and once I heard it, I knew there would be no improvement this year and there would most likely be a DC coach change and maybe even an HC coach change.
Likeable: I can see that...exotic blitzes, NFL scheme which is every college kid's dream
Learnable: I can see that too...We had some kids that really did learn the defense and how every player fit into it.
But the reality is that it isn't EXECUTABLE by 11 college kids. Kelly and BVG can stop with their excuses. All I've heard since Oct. 11, 2014 is that ND has been 1 player off on each play that doesn't work, which is the majority. They can stop with the coach-speak about defensive fits, speed to power, eye-tracking and all the other bull-sh** jargon they can come up with. Football is difficult, but college football is not as complicated as BK and BVG make it out to be. It should not be as complicated as BK and BVG make it out to be. ND has highly ranked, intelligent, multi-talented players that will be successful in the NFL, business world, and international world. And you're telling me for the 25th game in a row that it's not the scheme's fault? Just stop it already. This defense is not executable by our players or any other college's players. It's not even executable by the NFL teams running it from whom BVG learned it through. Look at their records.
North Carolina in 2014 showed all of college football how to find the holes in BVG's schemes. FSU followed it the next week in that epic loss. Forget the offensive pass interference already, did you not notice how calmly J. Winston delivered passes one time after another into wide open seams when we needed to get stops? Yeah, he got pressured some in the first half, but every meaningful throw he needed to make, he knew exactly where to go in the second half because BVG's defense was exposed. Watch all those 3rd down conversions that were just a little too easy, and those receivers that were just a bit too open for even just a 3 man rush. And stop with the "well-jamis-Winston-was-a-stud-QB" argument to what I just said and look at the throws he made to win vs the throws so many other QBs have made against ND in the games since then.
Likeable - we're going to blitz from all angles from all positions!!!!!!!
Learnable - You're a 36 ACT student with ridiculous athletic talent who can play Beethoven's 5th with a blindfold on while writing a dissertation on the impact of the industrial revolution on America's infrastructural problems it faces in the 21st century. You can learn it.
Executable - No. the data shows that 11 18-22 year olds do not have the extreme physical and mental acuity and skills to execute this defense and be successful.
They can't execute it. But I bet there's at least 20-30 defensive coordinators and/or head coaches who have a different scheme and a different philosophy and a different coaching style who look at our kids and say, "what a dame shame because I could turn that talent into a top 25 defense."
BK, you may be able to save your job if you cut the ties now...maybe...but this is starting to feel dreadfully similar to 2009 when ND dropped games to Navy, Pitt and UCONN.
Likeable: I can see that...exotic blitzes, NFL scheme which is every college kid's dream
Learnable: I can see that too...We had some kids that really did learn the defense and how every player fit into it.
But the reality is that it isn't EXECUTABLE by 11 college kids. Kelly and BVG can stop with their excuses. All I've heard since Oct. 11, 2014 is that ND has been 1 player off on each play that doesn't work, which is the majority. They can stop with the coach-speak about defensive fits, speed to power, eye-tracking and all the other bull-sh** jargon they can come up with. Football is difficult, but college football is not as complicated as BK and BVG make it out to be. It should not be as complicated as BK and BVG make it out to be. ND has highly ranked, intelligent, multi-talented players that will be successful in the NFL, business world, and international world. And you're telling me for the 25th game in a row that it's not the scheme's fault? Just stop it already. This defense is not executable by our players or any other college's players. It's not even executable by the NFL teams running it from whom BVG learned it through. Look at their records.
North Carolina in 2014 showed all of college football how to find the holes in BVG's schemes. FSU followed it the next week in that epic loss. Forget the offensive pass interference already, did you not notice how calmly J. Winston delivered passes one time after another into wide open seams when we needed to get stops? Yeah, he got pressured some in the first half, but every meaningful throw he needed to make, he knew exactly where to go in the second half because BVG's defense was exposed. Watch all those 3rd down conversions that were just a little too easy, and those receivers that were just a bit too open for even just a 3 man rush. And stop with the "well-jamis-Winston-was-a-stud-QB" argument to what I just said and look at the throws he made to win vs the throws so many other QBs have made against ND in the games since then.
Likeable - we're going to blitz from all angles from all positions!!!!!!!
Learnable - You're a 36 ACT student with ridiculous athletic talent who can play Beethoven's 5th with a blindfold on while writing a dissertation on the impact of the industrial revolution on America's infrastructural problems it faces in the 21st century. You can learn it.
Executable - No. the data shows that 11 18-22 year olds do not have the extreme physical and mental acuity and skills to execute this defense and be successful.
They can't execute it. But I bet there's at least 20-30 defensive coordinators and/or head coaches who have a different scheme and a different philosophy and a different coaching style who look at our kids and say, "what a dame shame because I could turn that talent into a top 25 defense."
BK, you may be able to save your job if you cut the ties now...maybe...but this is starting to feel dreadfully similar to 2009 when ND dropped games to Navy, Pitt and UCONN.
