Ted Roof, checker player. Oleary must have had horrible flashbacks..

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Offense scores 40 points. Pray you can hold on...
 
I get perverse pleasure asking every Notre Dame fan I meet, "So, you guys wish you would have kept Oleary?"
 
So we've tried a chess player and a checker player with poor results. Maybe we can try a pinochle player next.
 
I still remember scoring late in games when Roof was our DC during our GOL days and thinking "We scored too early. Should have run more clock". I always felt that the other team just easily would go down field. Somehow, this season, I get the same feeling all the time. I wasn't even happy up 28-7 at half because we have been there before. It should have been an easy salt away of a game. I was hoping for 35-7 after Duke's turnover early in the second half. Hell, we didn't even get one play run successfully after the turnover.
 
JJacket said:
I still remember scoring late in games when Roof was our DC during our GOL days and thinking "We scored too early. Should have run more clock". I always felt that the other team just easily would go down field. Somehow, this season, I get the same feeling all the time. I wasn't even happy up 28-7 at half because we have been there before. It should have been an easy salt away of a game. I was hoping for 35-7 after Duke's turnover early in the second half. Hell, we didn't even get one play run successfully after the turnover.
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tbh I've felt that way since 2009. I remember when Smelter scored on the long reverse against UNC in 2014 and while everybody around me was cheering, I was going NO NO NO NO because I knew what was coming.
 
This is bs. O'Leary used to bring in big bodies from the junior college ranks and was further able to recruit from a wider group. The defensive recruiting today is clearly a step below O'Leary days. This is a tech issue.
 
midatlantech said:
This is bs. O'Leary used to bring in big bodies from the junior college ranks and was further able to recruit from a wider group. The defensive recruiting today is clearly a step below O'Leary days. This is a tech issue.
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Duke wasn't that big of an OL. We shouldn't have needed JC's.

Duke's OL was 285, 285, 290, 300, 290

Their DL was 240, 280, 295, 245

We should have been able to handle them with what we have. It is more likely S/C and coaching. Who is our OL coach? Is he any good? I can't quite remember.

Our DL has good size and depth, on paper. The TE pass yesterday opened up the run. We just aren't that aggressive in short pass coverage. Is it because we are not skilled enough? Just lack of confidence in our cover guys? Bend don't break (coaching)? If we had excellent cover guys it wouldn't be a problem. Duke was constantly getting a player open on the deep corner route yesterday to the right side. Is that because we aren't skilled enough in coverage or was Duke's WR just especially good at running that route and has the speed to out run our corner? We were lucky that pattern was just plain overthrown yesterday several times.
 
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