This loss is due to many things, top of the list, Brian Kelly, Ian Book, Jack Swarbick, Rest of team
Jack and Big 10 officials:
You might have missed it, but we got screwed again. They gave us the horrible PI that led to the ND TD but they gave it back in spades the following drive with 2 PI calls, the one on Pride technically is but is the ticky tacky grabbing that happens on every play. The 2nd one was as bad as ours. Call it a wash. Michigan DB's grab on every play. not unique. But more important was the noncalls for holding. We have 3 DE's who will play in the NFL and ZERO holding calls for a very average O-Line. 2 UM TD drives in 1st half aided by noncalls. 1st UM TD drive when they got long run you can see when RB gets behind safety who can't turn and chase because he is being held and safety snaps away when WR lets go after RB is behind him. Still would've been a 1st down but they still would've had half the field to go to score. Maybe they do.
The 2nd UM TD drive was worse. Two plays in a row Patterson rolls out to same side and ND DE can't chase as the tackle is holding him and you see him snap away as Tackle lets go after QB is past him. this was @nd and long and 3rd and long. Patterson scrambled past for 3 yds 1st time and 2nd time completed a pass for 1st dwon. Odds are this is a punt if they call either one when they should've called both.
These are just the ones I saw and I don't see everything. It IS NOT
Then ND gets illegal lineman downfield. The guy was clearly only 2 yds past line of scrimmage. And we had 1st and 10 on their 12 yd line. That is a FG at minimum and maybe a TD.
We should've been down 10-3 or 10-7 at half if we score and they call any one of multiple holding calls.
THANKS JACK. THIS IS ON YOU BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET BIG 10 officials against BIG 10 teams especially UM and AT UM. This game meant more to the BIG 10 as a whole than UM since their conference has zero OOC victories worth anything. I could see this coming a mile away. The Big 10 should be sending Swarbick a thank you card.
Call the 2 horrible PI's for both sides a wash and ND should've been in it going into the 4th. Even as horrible as Book and some others were. Patterson only completed his 1st big pass play when we were forced to sell out to stop the run early in 4th quarter. We and they aren't playing the same with different scenario.
BRIAN Kelly:
You got outcoached by Harbaugh who is awful. The tone was set for this game when UM decided to sell out to stop the run and we didn't. That 2 TE was worth crap if we aren't going to slip a TE out once in a while. It only made it easier for UM to bring everyone on D into the box. Announcers kept saying they dominated the line of scrimmage. Our O-line didn't play that poorly we were outschemed. UM's D players weren't shedding block to make tackles, they out numbered us at the point of attack. There was always one or 2 unblocked/unaccounted for guys waiting to make the play. SCHEME.
And I said it a thousand times. That RPO (which we never run as a true RPO) sucks. Bad teams can stop it when they sell out to stop the run. Whenever Book holds the ball out to the RB, it is a run, we never throw out of it, so it is not a true RPO, and 90% OR MORE of the time Book never keeps it. So it is just a stupid run to the TB where the defenders have more momentum hitting the line of scrimmage than the RB does.
RPO … handoff to RB on 1st down leads to 2nd and long …. same thing again leads to 3rd and long. If you run blitz every time you see Book hold the ball out it is a very long day for ND and now the only time we pass is on obvious passing down. Garbage game plan BK.
IAN BOOK:
He was garbage. Missed open receivers, happy feet … AGAIN. Just awful. NEWSFLASH! …. This is who Ian Book is. He's decent and capable of good games but he is also capable of these stinkers and usually against better competition. If you want to compete with the Big Boys you need someone better. Have fun beating the patsies. And I hate to say this but I don't think Jurkovec is any better. He is ok but not the answer.
Once again it looks like QB getting worse under BK, Book looks worse and Jurkovec doesn't look better either. BK's record at developing QB's at ND is batting 1.000. I love IIO's new coach thread. All mentioned have success running offense and developing QB's. Apparently BK sucks at it. I think our sample size is PLENTY big.
And yes folks, while we can't develop QB's you have to blame BK for having a QB coach with ZERO experience anywhere. AWESOME!
TEAM:
We turned it over twice to their zero. It matters. If we don't screw up that blocked punt we have the ball in FG range to start. We screw it up even further by Gilman committing PI on a 3rd and long for them when the UM Wr wasn't going to catch it anyway. Bad plays for us. There were other miscues of course, dropped passes. How many false starts? Again? Coaching can't clean that up at ND apparently. 2 weeks to prepare. There is a reason Kelly loses these games. It isn't a coincidence.
Like I said, This should've been a game going into the 4th Qtr. Then Jurkovec doesn't come into the game. Our 2nd stringers on D don't. They scored 21 of their points in 4th qtr when the game was over and we had given up by putting Jurkovec and other 2nd stringers in. The game would've played out differently. The point isn't we "would've won." The point is we should've had a chance to win. Swarbick and his Big 10 offficials made sure we stayed down and had no chance after the bad start.
These are almost the same 2 teams that played last year when we made them look terrible. Did they get better than us in a year with same guys? NO … Kelly's game plan sucked, Book has gotten worse under him and still doesn't have a QB coach, we played terrible that day, and had to do all of this in a monsoon with BIG 10 officials.
Even as bad as we played we still should've been in it. UM is not that good. We've lost to worse teams than this under Kelly.
Jack and Big 10 officials:
You might have missed it, but we got screwed again. They gave us the horrible PI that led to the ND TD but they gave it back in spades the following drive with 2 PI calls, the one on Pride technically is but is the ticky tacky grabbing that happens on every play. The 2nd one was as bad as ours. Call it a wash. Michigan DB's grab on every play. not unique. But more important was the noncalls for holding. We have 3 DE's who will play in the NFL and ZERO holding calls for a very average O-Line. 2 UM TD drives in 1st half aided by noncalls. 1st UM TD drive when they got long run you can see when RB gets behind safety who can't turn and chase because he is being held and safety snaps away when WR lets go after RB is behind him. Still would've been a 1st down but they still would've had half the field to go to score. Maybe they do.
The 2nd UM TD drive was worse. Two plays in a row Patterson rolls out to same side and ND DE can't chase as the tackle is holding him and you see him snap away as Tackle lets go after QB is past him. this was @nd and long and 3rd and long. Patterson scrambled past for 3 yds 1st time and 2nd time completed a pass for 1st dwon. Odds are this is a punt if they call either one when they should've called both.
These are just the ones I saw and I don't see everything. It IS NOT
Then ND gets illegal lineman downfield. The guy was clearly only 2 yds past line of scrimmage. And we had 1st and 10 on their 12 yd line. That is a FG at minimum and maybe a TD.
We should've been down 10-3 or 10-7 at half if we score and they call any one of multiple holding calls.
THANKS JACK. THIS IS ON YOU BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET BIG 10 officials against BIG 10 teams especially UM and AT UM. This game meant more to the BIG 10 as a whole than UM since their conference has zero OOC victories worth anything. I could see this coming a mile away. The Big 10 should be sending Swarbick a thank you card.
Call the 2 horrible PI's for both sides a wash and ND should've been in it going into the 4th. Even as horrible as Book and some others were. Patterson only completed his 1st big pass play when we were forced to sell out to stop the run early in 4th quarter. We and they aren't playing the same with different scenario.
BRIAN Kelly:
You got outcoached by Harbaugh who is awful. The tone was set for this game when UM decided to sell out to stop the run and we didn't. That 2 TE was worth crap if we aren't going to slip a TE out once in a while. It only made it easier for UM to bring everyone on D into the box. Announcers kept saying they dominated the line of scrimmage. Our O-line didn't play that poorly we were outschemed. UM's D players weren't shedding block to make tackles, they out numbered us at the point of attack. There was always one or 2 unblocked/unaccounted for guys waiting to make the play. SCHEME.
And I said it a thousand times. That RPO (which we never run as a true RPO) sucks. Bad teams can stop it when they sell out to stop the run. Whenever Book holds the ball out to the RB, it is a run, we never throw out of it, so it is not a true RPO, and 90% OR MORE of the time Book never keeps it. So it is just a stupid run to the TB where the defenders have more momentum hitting the line of scrimmage than the RB does.
RPO … handoff to RB on 1st down leads to 2nd and long …. same thing again leads to 3rd and long. If you run blitz every time you see Book hold the ball out it is a very long day for ND and now the only time we pass is on obvious passing down. Garbage game plan BK.
IAN BOOK:
He was garbage. Missed open receivers, happy feet … AGAIN. Just awful. NEWSFLASH! …. This is who Ian Book is. He's decent and capable of good games but he is also capable of these stinkers and usually against better competition. If you want to compete with the Big Boys you need someone better. Have fun beating the patsies. And I hate to say this but I don't think Jurkovec is any better. He is ok but not the answer.
Once again it looks like QB getting worse under BK, Book looks worse and Jurkovec doesn't look better either. BK's record at developing QB's at ND is batting 1.000. I love IIO's new coach thread. All mentioned have success running offense and developing QB's. Apparently BK sucks at it. I think our sample size is PLENTY big.
And yes folks, while we can't develop QB's you have to blame BK for having a QB coach with ZERO experience anywhere. AWESOME!
TEAM:
We turned it over twice to their zero. It matters. If we don't screw up that blocked punt we have the ball in FG range to start. We screw it up even further by Gilman committing PI on a 3rd and long for them when the UM Wr wasn't going to catch it anyway. Bad plays for us. There were other miscues of course, dropped passes. How many false starts? Again? Coaching can't clean that up at ND apparently. 2 weeks to prepare. There is a reason Kelly loses these games. It isn't a coincidence.
Like I said, This should've been a game going into the 4th Qtr. Then Jurkovec doesn't come into the game. Our 2nd stringers on D don't. They scored 21 of their points in 4th qtr when the game was over and we had given up by putting Jurkovec and other 2nd stringers in. The game would've played out differently. The point isn't we "would've won." The point is we should've had a chance to win. Swarbick and his Big 10 offficials made sure we stayed down and had no chance after the bad start.
These are almost the same 2 teams that played last year when we made them look terrible. Did they get better than us in a year with same guys? NO … Kelly's game plan sucked, Book has gotten worse under him and still doesn't have a QB coach, we played terrible that day, and had to do all of this in a monsoon with BIG 10 officials.
Even as bad as we played we still should've been in it. UM is not that good. We've lost to worse teams than this under Kelly.
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