Before I get into this game, I want to comment on 3 things that confounded me(there’s a lot more).

1– Can’t remember the game and I can’t remember ever hearing this before–but the ND defensive coaches wanted the home crowd to quiet down since they couldn’t get their defensive changes in. Every game I ever saw the home crowd goes crazy to help the defense. I find this very strange.

2–BK admitting he knows nothing about triple option but 2 of his defensive coaches do. You would think that what led to CW firing would inspire him to take a crash course on it.

3–Inability to change defense, when what you are doing clearly isn’t working.

There have been times when ND defense looks to side line and gets no answers. I’m going to hand the Navy loss directly on the entire coaching staff. The ND defensive players clearly needed coaching help and received no help at all from the coaches. We were lucky Navy didn’t lay 50 on us. It looked like everyman for himself out there–sorta like the Alamo.

Now onto Tulsa. I don’t care what conference they’re in–they can score points and who the hell knows what our defense will do.

If Western Michigan can score 17 first half points on us these guys can too and maybe 17 in 2nd half. If I’m Tulsa I’d play same defense Navy did. If Navy D-Line could get to Crist Tulsa can too. ND Offensive Line is pretty bad. We need to score at least 40-45 points to win this game.

I believe Kelly is feeling the pressure–sorta like that sinking feeling when–hey this is not at all what I expected.  Kelly coaching scared for first time in his career.  And for Christ sake stop screaming at Crist every time you see him.

Prediction–Upset

Tulsa 35 ND 28