ND usually has one of the better offensive lines in the country most years. Why is it such a struggle to get gamebreakers at RB over the last several years? With NDs prestige & OL reputation, top 100/50/25 prospects at RB should be beating down the doors to play RB at ND. Instead it's rare we get any RB commitments in the top 100, and mostly get LOIs from prospects way down in the ~200-300 (low to mid 4 star range).
Any thoughts?
Sure...
No identity...
They aren't a running team and they aren't a passing team.
They try to be some of both but they don't fully sell out to one or the other.
The other thing...
Winning...
Kids (they're still kids until about 25) are drawn to winning. Don't give me the hallmark song and dance of BK winning all these games. He beat up on daisies and get's absolutely pasted by the top teams.
Back to the no man's land....
Allow me a little story..
When BK was at Cincinnati they were on ESPN quite frequently. Why? They were explosive and here was this non football school making noise.
You know what he did? Ran hurry up no huddle offense all the time. When it was a rarity in football he was exploiting that. They were snapping the ball quickly. Very!!!
Soom everyone did that. (Copycat business)What cutting-edge thing did he do for an advantage? Nothing. Now he has to really coach. Thus...the results speak for themselves.
Saturday night #7 should've had 25 carries. At least!
Nope!
We had to give Tyree meaningless touches.
Ya know what Rees and MF need to do...study...go and visit Holtz who was an absolute master of using the right back against the right teams.
Tyree will have huge games against say a Marshall or a Navy.
Against a fast defense he is nullified.
#7 on the other hand is a load who runs very hard. OSU wanted no more of him and Rees obliged.
Sometimes it's your day and sonetimes not but the coaches here seem hell bent on dividing up carries by default.
Just like at running back why would any top receiver want to come here?
You don't showcase anything running curl and sit routes.
It's pretty god damn sad when a saftey valve is always the first,second and third option on every passing play.
Again...I wouldn't promote any top receiver or RB to come here.
The kid who went to Clemson. Good for him. He'd be running dive plays here for about 8 attempts before being spelled for #7 to run east west run plays.
No mans land brotha....