Comments on: Top 10 NDFB Stories of 2011: 5-1 https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/ A Notre Dame Football Blog Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 By: Jeremy https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-220097 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:58:01 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-220097 “Worst still was his tendency to fail to manage the team before the snap – something Rees excels at, even if he does seem a bit confused after the snap.”

Such a painfully correct sentence that sums up much of our problems this year.

I used to complain about how usually only QBs get any love in Heisman contention (with some RBs), but after watching the FSU game, I get it. It doesn’t matter if you have one of the best receivers in the game, the best tight end, an elite RB, and a very good offensive line — if you keep throwing it to the other team instead, you lose.

]]> By: Matt Q. (DMQ) https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-220069 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:12:24 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-220069 In reply to Mark.

The top-10 or tied for Turnover Margin in 2011 is…

1	LSU	
2	Oklahoma St.	
3	Toledo	
4	Houston	
4	Wisconsin	
6	North Carolina St.	
7	Kent St.	
7	Memphis	
9	Cincinnati	
9	Kansas St.	
9	San Diego St.	
9	Wyoming

Not exactly a cadre of elite programs.

Source: http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/natlRank.jsp?year=2011&rpt=IA_teamturnovermrgn&site=org&div=IA&dest=O

]]> By: Mark https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-220050 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:12:36 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-220050 “Major advantages in turnover margin wont make you a great team”

Disagree, top five in turnover margin in 2011:
LSU
Oklahoma St
Kansas St
Houston
Wisconsin

Go look at the preseason ranking of those teams and how they finished in the final standings. Turnover margin is more meaningful than any statistic other than wins.

]]> By: NDtex https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-220022 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:53:05 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-220022 In reply to Ripple.

I’m not exactly sure Rees would’ve been running any system very well. The mistakes he made during games were a result of failing to make correct reads, the same that he would’ve had to make in any system (save for a pure option attack).

]]> By: Matt Q. (DMQ) https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-219999 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:28:09 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-219999 In reply to Ripple.

And meant to say, yeah, it’s a bygone era. Quaint in the way we looked at CFB from the 60s when we were living in the 80s.

]]> By: Matt Q. (DMQ) https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-219998 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:26:38 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-219998 In reply to Ripple.

How exactly has Meyer adapted a system ever, aside from just running different plays more often for certain QBs?

]]> By: Ripple https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-219997 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:37:42 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-219997 As a traditionalist, one of my regrets is that college football has evolved from a world where coaches built systems around their players each year, to a world where players must be able to run the coach’s system. I’m not a Kelly-basher, but I’m tired of the reasons for failure being that the players aren’t able to run the system or the recruits who know the system are not in the door yet. I think that’s a cop-out by the coaches, particularly in Weis’ and Kelly’s cases. I know this isn’t 1988, but what Lou did well, and I think others like Meyer and Stoops have done since, was adapt their system to their players. Tony Rice and Rick Mirer were very different quarterbacks, but we were able to succeed with both. Is it a bygone concept, or can we somehow get back to that?

]]> By: trey https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-219992 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:45:42 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-219992 In reply to kyndfan.

Me

]]> By: NDEddieMac https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-219983 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:31:19 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-219983 In reply to Matt Q. (DMQ).

That I’ll give you. My frustration with the inability to get plays in/off even to the end of the year overshadowed those things that, admittedly, Rees did well in that aspect.

]]> By: The Biscuit https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2012/01/04/top-10-ndfb-stories-of-2011-5-10/#comment-219976 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:17:28 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=9905#comment-219976 Grades/adjustment to college life is one. Weighing 110 lbs is another. Hopefully he has adjusted in both ways by Spring.

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