Crawford...
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It’s not like they are going to replace him with a quality player next year. Crawford did a helluva job to fight back through all the injuries early in his career. He should be proud.
No issue with his determination. He is just a below average football player
H. Griffith has been a disappointment and must be bad. There's a reason Crawford started over him. Crawford in my opinion had 3 things working against him:
1. His size or lack thereof.
2. He's best suited for nickel corner than he is safety.
3. QBs seldom wanted to throw Hamilton's way, so they picked on Crawford instead.
1. His size or lack thereof.
2. He's best suited for nickel corner than he is safety.
3. QBs seldom wanted to throw Hamilton's way, so they picked on Crawford instead.
I remember Griffith's recruiting hype, then nothing. Should HG be moved to offense?
I think it's too late at this point. If makes a change at all, I suppose Rover might be worth exploring. He'll need to put on some weight though. But my guess is the staff keeps him where he is and hope he blossoms. Some guys just take a long time to develop.
I’m glad he was our player but I wish he would’ve been replaced by a good recruit.
Hasn't Crawford had 2 ACL repair jobs and a torn achilles heal during his 6 years at ND? Those injuries cost him 3 years. You can imagine how much speed and quickness those injuries have taken from him.
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ND was in a bad position overall -- defend the pass, and Harris was running wild. Defend the run, and we had no one to handle Smith -- the secondary was a liability all year, and in this game, it was manifested.
And just think -- Waddle was on the sideline hurt --
Never understood his move to safety. If he couldn't come back as cb why bring him back?
Not trying to start a back and forth battle.....but isn’t that on Lea? Everyone is quick to blame BK, but I have to believe BK gave Lea a ton of rope to make decisions. It’s like Lea walks on water around here (I’m guilty of it too).
Exactly. He played way back under VanGorder as a freshman for a reason. He was quicker back then.
I never said it was on BK, but BK ultimately is last call on playing time. I think this might have been a BK decision partially because in a presser he came out to defend crawfords bad play and how he "WON" the position when there wasn't even a question as to why he was starting. It was just clear he was playing bad and ND was going to ride with him. Bk said he should improve, well, he didn't.
