The Irish surprised everyone with a smothering of the feared “option” attack. Tip of the hat to VanGorder and staff for an attacking defense that seemed to come from everywhere. The DL played as hard as one can and Joe Schmidt was everywhere (10 tackles) as was Drue Tranquill until he was injured on a
Adding fuel to the fire we now learn that GT HC Paul Johnson has an extreme dislike for Brian VanGorder that goes back years. It’s bad enough that Johnson has been waiting to bring a legitimate team into ND stadium and get revenge for his Navy losses. Well, Johnson is bringing a prolific high scoring
Brian Kelly led off the press conference speaking about injuries with the latest TE Durham Smythe out for the season and these were not preventable – it’s just just football. Questioned about ILB Grace, we learn he is dinged up with ankle and hamstring issues. What the hell was he doing on the kickoff team?
Paul Johnson, the cerebral HC at Georgia Tech has been waiting years to come into ND Stadium with a real football team as opposed to when he was at Navy. Now he has first class athletes and they are not outweighed 50lbs per man. Think Navy on steroids and after watching the UVA game, where
Better unpack your luggage, you are not going to the Final Four. ND once again displayed a schizo personality and did not carry over or expand on it’s win over Texas. After a good start ND, once again, had trouble scoring TD’s in the first half which would have led to a blow out in
Finally, an Opening Game that ND looked like the teams of yore. Malik Zaire had a game that kids dream about, starting his first game in the Opener in ND Stadium – 19/22 313 passing yds, 3 TD’s including a 66 yarder to Will Fuller. Zaire looked confident, poised and accurate. Tarean Folston went down
Former Coach Mack Brown stayed a little too long as Head Coach. He always got the cream of the crop from an outstanding recruiting base as exemplified by great HS football in that State. Complacency set in, hard work lapsed and all of a sudden TCU, Baylor, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and SMU became cool.
I’m not sure this glorified scrimmage really proved anything outside of the fact that the 2nd team OL is shockingly bad. Here I thought the stockpile of 4-5 stars players would at least make them somewhat close to the 1st teamers. The announcers were talking about DL frosh Tillery and said starting senior Center Nick