Tag: Michigan

USF 23 ND 20

ND Editor September 4, 2011 Football Tagged Andrew Hendrix, Brian Kelly, Dayne Crist, Denard Robinson, Everett Golson, loss, Michigan, Notre Dame, South Florida, Tommy Rees

The day after the shock of this loss, a few things come to mind.

This is not a BCS team
ND does not have a QB
ND has a schizo offense
ND has moderate defense
ND has a very slim chance for a major bowl.
Kelly has to calm it down – looks like a maniac.

I think Kelly’s offense is a split second offense–sort of like a fast break for an entire game and for that to work you need a GOOD QB that can pass and run.

If you take Michael Floyd out– the offense will collapse.

With the schedule they have and the persistent problems they have in the red zone– it will be tough to win 6 games. Quite simply they have to have a high octane offense and put points up every offensive series to be competitive.

USF has a decent team but one of the weakest on the schedule.

So what do you do at the QB position? I do not believe Kelly has any time for Crist or Hendrix–so you go with Rees and slowly mix Golson into each game for a few series.

Of course that means Hendrix leaves. Now you have 3 QB’s with one solid hit on Rees just waiting to happen.

All of this spells trouble and with his over the top behavior he could easily lose this team.

Michigan is not USF and now I believe they blow out ND with Denard Robinson once again racking up over 500 yds total offense.

Recruiting News

ND Editor November 22, 2010 Football Tagged Army, Brian Kelly, Charlie Weis, Clay Burton, Councell, Ferentz, Flavin, Florida, Hawaii, Huggins, Iowa, Justice Hayes, Manti Teo, Martin, Michigan, MSU, Notre Dame, Rockne, Texas, Wisconsin

Say goodbye to Justice Hayes-looking around–means gone for good. Apparently must have felt slighted somehow on his recent visit.

I was not surprised by this news and LB recruit Councell is also making visits elsewhere-so say goodbye to him also.

I don’t know what it is but recruits don’t seem to know what giving your word means. I would yank any offer to anyone who commits and then visits other schools and I would let them know when offer is made. Iowa coach Ferentz pulls schollie if recruit visits anyone after committing.

I also in the future would not kill myself in the state of Florida–they have no clue what giving your word means and quite frankly the one’s who do come fall on their faces(young) or just leave as soon a starts to chill up a little bit.

I think Huggins is a pipe dream. If there was real interest he would not have missed the Army game. So now what?

Start off by looking at guys that really want to come to ND. The state of Penna is loaded with top flight Catholic HS kids that would kill to go to ND–so too the rest of the midwest. I also would rather get kids from Texas than Fla. loads of talent in Texas.

I would now concentrate on lineman–you don’t need 4-5 stars just get good tough kids like Wisconsin, Iowa and MSU. Try to keep the pipeline in Calif but also go to Hawaii–3 now on team and they have big dudes there.

There is an O lineman Flavin who wants ND–offer him now and build him up.

Rockne said give me a good OL and DB’s and we will win regardless of the running back. We are spending way too much time pampering these recruits.
Take Clay Burton he was just waiting for a Fla offer.

We had that NG at Michigan–Martin but held onto a Charlie Weis pipedream and lost him.

I get the impression that Kelly doesn’t go out of his way to personally visit recruits–not like Weis who flew to Hawii for a day with 2 broken legs to land Manti.

So message is Kelly–get on the plane.