Intrigue
The Spring Game is coming up. Not long now. And we’re hearing rumors of very high ticket sales already. Now, this may be hype on the part of the ND SID to help boost overall sales, but this is also the first Spring game with any real intrigue in a long time. Even when Charlie held his first B/G Game, we all knew that Brady Quinn would be our starting QB, and most ND fans were all pretty well versed in the Minter defensive philosophy (for better or worse).
Now we’ve got a completely open QB battle with probably the most overall talent spread throughout the QB stable since the Lou Holtz days. We’ve got a brand new DC with no DC experience (and thus no tendencies upon which to draw educated guesses). All while the running back positions are up for grabs among a ton of talent lead by a guy who was a linebacker last year. Not to mention a converted OL with his own gravitational system giving Nose Tackle the ole’ college try. Heck, half the stadium at this year’s B/G Game will probably be full of opposing teams’ scouts. At least last year they knew things like “Brady Quinn will throw the ball. A lot. To Jeff Samardzija.” What do they know now? What do any of us really know?
Nothing.
Lost in a lot of the discussion is Weis’ offensive philosophy. He’s not a system guy. He had a system the past 2 years that fit really well with his players. Now he’s got to replace almost his entire offense, but he wont fill that offense with players that fit a system. He’ll structure his system around his best players. So we’re intrigued, and opposing defenses should be absolutely terrified. I eagerly anticipate the magic of the 3-TE “Jumbo” Package where all 3 TE split out wide. Take that, you little 5′8″ cornerback f’ers.
Well, at least we all have a good idea about how recruiting will go this year.
Oh. Wait. No. Weis is giving his new recruiting philosophy, where committing to ND is like swearing a blood oath on the lives of your unborn children, a try. And already that’s getting very, very interesting. If you can stand the Ryan Adams overload, have a listen to this and this.
PS - If any of our 7 readers happens to run XM/Sirius, please consider picking up Mike Frank’s Power Hour as a national show. Just don’t let him use Ryan Adams ever again.
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For all the talk about the need to concentate on defense in this year’s recruiting, I can’t help but notice that of the five committed so far, four are on offense.
Nice article. 7 readers? I posted one under “Great read” at DD
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