Dante Moore … is trouble brewing?
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BK ruined Golson. As someone mentioned, the coaching style didn’t mesh with Everett. You can challenge your players without destroying their confidence. I was a huge fan of EG and was in Tempe when he had the 5 INT game against ASU- guy had lost all confidence.
This. Potential unrealized. Golson was actually better his first year n got worse with red face. Didn’t help that he lost a year by screwing around
EGold's comeback in the 2nd half @ASU was his best performance other than @FSU. IIRC we went from dead to right to attempting a tying fg.
But otherwise that mismatch in the tier of Montana-Devine.
I have read a couple of interviews of Dayne. He has nothing but love for ND. Not sure he feels the same way about BK. Hard to blame him. He is doing very well career-wise, by the way, as a financial advisor.
Of course. I would blame Brian Kelly for global warming as well.
At the time, I thought Golson had all the tools to excel in Kelly’s QB dominated dual threat high scoring offense we all were desperate to see. Damn, he threw a beautiful ball and his bullets and over the top throws seemed effortless. But the drive Killing interceptions at seemingly critical times got worse with experience; and the subsequent in your face ass chewing from Kelly were more than the thin skinned emotional guy could handle. Not a Good match.
Golson wasn't a good match with Fisher either for that matter. To me Golson, while talented was a "too cool for school" type kid where he just didn't care enough to be coached and was undisciplined.
The game wasn't close last year. I think winning this year is more important. 1. Home game 2. Freeman has had the whole off season to prepare better for CW and Rees is gone so the new OC also has to prove himself. 3. We have Sam Hartman and not Pyne and SH is surrounded by top talent. 4. Elite recruits will be looking at our big games to see if we can win them.
I expect that last season was a great learning experience for Freeman, his first as a head coach. I think he spent a hell of a lot more time thinking about and planning how to be a better head coach than anything specific to USC. The loses to Marshall and Stanford were much more devastating than the loss to USC. I thought our OL played a terrible game against USC, only outdone by the anemic play of our DL. Both were expected to dominate, and both got their asses kicked.
I think having LR instead of CH inspired confidence in USC and maybe why our OL struggled plus they had a new DC. If you look back at the Lou Holtz era he always played smash mouth run football which wore down the opposing D in the second half. He was committed to that. I still feel that strategy makes the most sense given our OL talent and stable of running backs. Then open up in the 2nd half when the D is back on their heels. Go back and look at the mixture of plays on the ground that Holtz would run no matter who the QB and that is why he was able to consistently win.
I don't know about this. He didn't get the right schooling. What was his major?
Also our QB cast offs have a habit of transferring to programs without an Oline and we usually see them running for their lives.
Yep, he’s the kind of player that would be in the portal two or three times in today’s game.
