“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.” Lou Holtz

In this absolutely must win game, Tulsa racked up over 200 yds. rushing and close to 200 yds. passing–that kid’s is 400 yds. You can’t win giving up those numbers week in and week out. ND on the other hand ran for about 120 yds. and over 300 in the air.

The ND sideline is starting to resemble visitors from the surrounding hospital wards.

If you watched the game their is little to say. But I will do my best:

1. noticed right at the start how hard Tulsa was hitting.
2. Dayne Crist was literally blasted out of his shoes on the sideline.
3. Tulsa OL and DLine outplayed ND and I’m still wondering where OLB’s are.
4. Down to 2 Running Backs.
5. OL-just don’t get how they can be so bad week in and week out. It doesn’t seem to matter how many OL line coaches we go thru. You will never be a winning team if you can’t consistently run the ball. At the end of the game, just a few good runs would make for a super easy FG.
6. Rees played well 4tds.
7. Clausen in game-ok pass to Floyd almost automatic TD but not with a true 2nd string freshman. You just do not do that. Kelly said he will always play aggressive–well that call was just plain stupid, especially for a guy who has been coaching 20 yrs.
8. Kelly proud how Rees just kept bouncing up after the hits he took. If he keeps getting hit like that-we’ll soon be onto our third QB. Why the hell doesn’t he say-I don’t want my QB touched and we will be working the OL hard for next 2 weeks and replace those not producing.

Final words–It will take a miracle for ND to win next 3 games.

Predicted final record

4 Wins 8 Losses