Coaching effected the game

[gary2]

As soon as our second offensive possession.

With the score 3-7, after we made a defensive stop, from our 27, we kill a possession by calling running plays on first and second down.

We have not been able to run the ball all year, yet Whipple thought we would start against the number three team in the country? We needed to keep the game tight or play with a lead. Numerous coaching decisions gave us no opportunity to do that.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

You could have assembled and all star cast of coaches for that game and the outcome would have still been an ass kicking.

 

[Teh Teh]

Last week was worst. The entire first half against Miami was this. Completely just sat on the ball all half.

 

[Teh Teh]

Plus the end of the half. The offense had the ball after a good return and we sat on it , punted, had it blocked for a td

 

[gary2]

You could have assembled and all star cast of coaches for that game and the outcome would have still been an ass kicking.

I don't believe that at all. Louisville held ND to 12 points.

Better coaching could have kept us in touch. If we stayed in touch Yellen could have played within himself. When the lead got stretched the game was over.

 

[TD_6082]

As soon as our second offensive possession.

With the score 3-7, after we made a defensive stop, from our 27, we kill a possession by calling running plays on first and second down.

We have not been able to run the ball all year, yet Whipple thought we would start against the number three team in the country? We needed to keep the game tight or play with a lead. Numerous coaching decisions gave us no opportunity to do that.

We have another poster that thought it was moronic to have freshman back up QB throw it for 18 of the first 21 plays.

I don't know that having your QB back there chucking it trying to play catch up is all that different than depending on him to chuck it around to move the sticks and retain possession.

Besides, Yellen was terrible yesterday. At one point, we ran a simple 1 on 1 go route and had seperation. That's either a big gain or an overthrow incompletion. The only big no-no is to underthrow it. And of course, that's exactly what we did.

At this point, everything about the offense is broken. After watching that debacle unfold,, I think it was pretty obvious early on that ND was going to break the game open at some point. It was just when and how bad.

Louisville would truck us if we played again.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

We have another poster that thought it was moronic to have freshman back up QB throw it for 18 of the first 21 plays.

To be fair, I only think that because it's true.

But hey, at least Gary hasn't tried to blame yesterday's loss on the refs.

At least not yet.

As far as I know.

 

[Cap pitt]

It's coaching, or lack there of

 

[gary2]

To be fair, I only think that because it's true.

But hey, at least Gary hasn't tried to blame yesterday's loss on the refs.

At least not yet.

As far as I know.

So we should have protected our QB by only allowing him to throw it 20 times, and ran the ball 40 times for 25 yards?

Our game plan should have been similar to what Leary and NC State did against us.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

So we should have protected our QB by only allowing him to throw it 20 times, and ran the ball 40 times for 25 yards?

No, we should have protected our quarterback by trying to have at least a modicum of balance on offense.

I mean seriously, until that last ill-fated drive of the first half (when we actually should have been throwing the ball) we ran the ball exactly three times, starting a raw freshman at quarterback. And you think that three times was at least one or two, if not three, too many.

That's nuts. Batshit crazy, in fact.