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Expert: Nyles Morgan Scapegoated To Cover Coach’s Weakness

July 5, 2016 by andrewwinn

Notre Dame coaches "undersold" sophomore linebacker Nyles Morgan last year in an effort to conceal a significant weakness in Brian VanGorder's defensive scheme. Blue & Gold Illustrated's Bryan Driskell criticized VanGorder, the Irish's defensive coordinator, for being too faithful to scheme and sticking with Joe Schmidt - although he graded out as one of the worst linebackers last year. "Why did you run a defense that required you to put such an inferior player on the field in order ...

Friday Roundup: The “Notre Dame Fall Camp 2014 Catch-Up” Edition

August 15, 2014 by Ryan Ritter

Once WatchND started pumping out Notre Dame football fall camp practice videos, I was all in for breaking each one down. It worked great for the first two practices, but then practice #3 happened and saw the video breakdown was a position profile for the CBs. Don't get me wrong, the feature was great, but a basically started at my title of "Fall Camp Practice Report #3: CB Report" for about an hour and realized there was no way that I could even drag 100 words out of the topic. So I passed ...