Did Notre Dame’s coaching staff put Eli Raridon in a position to have success against Louisville? He played 10 snaps. Special teams may be leaking too many yards in too many situations, but Shrader was part of the solution on Saturday night.ħ. Nice night for Shrader in a moment when Notre Dame needed it. That’s the kicker we saw during training camp. All hail the right leg of Spencer Shrader. What was Freeman thinking by using a timeout after Hartman was sacked in the final minute of the first half, bringing up a third-and-13? The decision, followed by an incomplete pass on third down, set up a Louisville with a chance at an end-of-half field goal, which missed from 42 yards.Ħ. It’s hard to imagine an offensive line coach of Joe Rudolph’s caliber would voluntarily unsettle the group like that.Īnd if Notre Dame goes into a game unsure of its best lineup at guard and center, what is it getting in practice?ĥ. It’s a position that talks about “seeing everything through one set of eyes” and “five guys working as one.” Freeman’s decision to rotate made that impossible. It’s another to rotate on the offensive line by design. It’s one thing to pull a player for poor performance. By the end of the game, Blake Fisher had been benched after getting beat repeatedly, leaving quarterback Sam Hartman to fend for himself. Kristofic rotated at center with Zeke Correll. Schrauth played both guard spots in the first half. What has become of the “offensive line-driven program” Freeman set out to maintain? Against Louisville, the Irish essentially staged a game-day tryout for Billy Schrauth and Andrew Kristofic. The problem is that it’s hard to apply those lessons with USC coming to town for the Irish’s eighth game in eight weeks and fourth consecutive night game, all on top of midterm exams this week.Ģ. And the lessons from the meltdown at Louisville must be massive. But losing like that with this quarterback? The key to Freeman’s success at Notre Dame was his ability to learn on the job. Oh, then douse Marcus Freeman with milk after a Notre Dame victory and have the team kiss the yard of bricks after singing the alma mater for good measure.Simply losing a football game doesn’t call into question the entire operation from the top down. Have NBC Sports promote the living daylights out of it since it’d feature a handful of their biggest properties: Notre Dame and Big Ten football, Indy 500, and NASCAR.Make tickets something insanely cheap for face value so that even if you can’t see particularly great, it’d be attractive to a massive audience.Play against a Big Ten team with a massive following who would only help drive the hype.Have Indiana’s own Tony Stewart (two-time Brickyard 400 winner and three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion) serve as an honorary captain.I don’t care about the logistics of putting grass on asphalt or the fact the pit wall is there – just have people smarter than me figure it out and get it done. Build a special football field on the front stretch to take advantage of the most possible seating that is already in place.The venue is clearly massive (2.5 miles around for those who don’t watch racing) and a football field wouldn’t fit as nicely as it did when Tennessee played Virginia Tech at Bristol Motor Speedway a few years ago but this would be incredible. No sporting event attracts a bigger crowd than the Indianapolis 500 which draws over 300,000 fans each Memorial Day weekend. Do you want to get creative and set a record in the process?
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