Also, why they went back to dreadful edge runs east/west instead of keeping Estime going north/south.
Kind of like Brian Kelly never left because nobody and I mean nobody loves that long developing play more than him.
See ND out-coaches itself never committing to one thing and working off that one thing to expanding into a few other things.
They can say we're going to "establish the run" but it's all bullshit. They don't commit to it.
Running laterally against a fast defense is falling right into what they want.
ESPECIALLY since we have everyone spread out and the defense can see evertything that's going on.
It's Mickey Mouse offensive football.
Remember Holtz...(since he's a huge reference point as of late)
He loved running the ball. Big time!! He comitted to it. The opposition knew it was coming and it didn't matter.
He also had a great sense of feel on what play, when and who should be running that particularly play.
Example... remember Adrian Jarell? He had a grand total of 21 catches in his entire career.
Oh but on one glorious day of Game of the Century against FSU Lou had him run an end around for a 32 yard score.
Nobody ever seen that coming and especially the who.
Jarell finished his career with 3 carries( 2 as a freshman) 1 carry against FSU the end around...
21 catches for 283 yards combined.
He had a way of keeping players interested even if given a little morsel of playing time but got them excited and they felt important.
Meanwhile Lee Becton made Florida State and their all world "fast defense" look pedestrian. Lee Becton wasn't big nor fast. He was quite slow but he was gettinh 6 yards before he even had to make a move.
That was committing to run the damn ball. We don't do that whatsoever.
We do things by default. Well let's give Tyree his lateral touches now against a fadt defense completely oblivious to #7 punishing the defense.
Until ND is truly comitted to one thing or the other they won't see any top playmakimg players. Nor should we!!