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Sounds like a great hire. It does seem like CW like also be the OC. If he does that, I hope he will stay in the press box. Knowing him, he probably will not. |
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Save 'em up for 2010. We should have a monster recruiting staff. |
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Love this hire and Alford's tendency to game related drills. Go Irish and go Rams! |
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I'm sold. Sounds great |
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"ISU running backs lost a total of 13 fumbles in the 8 years Alford coached there. As a point of comparison, ND backs lost 12 fumbles the past two seasons" |
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Wow, ....again wow, zero turn overs rushing. Great hire, charlie! |
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I dont know about you guys, but the more i think about these hires and the more i read up on them, the more excited i get. Im looking forward to seeing who the DL coach will be, hopefully one of the rumors that are floating out there will deem to be true. Charlie seems to be getting his act together. With these guys that all seem to be "in your face" guys, I see no problem with charlie now being able to go up to the box to call the plays. If he's smart, he would do it for the benefit of the program, because now on the field he's got the motivators he needs. Bryant young, corwin brown, tenuta, alford, verducci......... |
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as for the rumors about a head coaching change after this recruiting class signs: |
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Does anyone know what style of running backs and running game he has worked with? Is he familiar with developing the backs into a one-cut zone blocking scheme, or have they been straight ahead or bounce it to the outside type runners? |
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Erik, that is something I have been trying to research. |
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As unexcited about Verducci as I was, this hire seems to have me feeling the exact opposite. Welcome aboard, Coach Alford. Looking forward to seeing your impact on our game! |
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Regarding the zone blocking question, Barney Cotton was the OC at ISU from 2004-2006, and he was a zone blocking guy. |
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Typo: "corp" vs. "corps." Back to Core for you. |
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To anyone that knows Kehres they know he doesn't just fork over compliments. The man has been an absolute force in Division III football. He is currently leading the longest dynasty in football at any level, no one in division I is even in the same universe of winning as Kehres is with the purple raiders. The fact that he moved so quickly from a division III running backs coach to d-1 is also a testament to his abilities. If it's possible to make less than a graduate assistant, d-III rb coach does. Obviously he has impressed all of his employers and I'll be interested to see how long he lasts as strickly a rb coach at ND. |
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I'm going to withhold judgment until Mike Coffey weighs in on the cultural implications of this hire. |
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Just watching that short sample video was rather impressive. The guy definitely seems to have a lot more energy than Haywood did. |
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maybe washington utilized "rushing by committee", in that case corp might be ok. |
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Eddie, I'll wait for Jason Whitlock to weigh in on the same. I have a feeling I'll be waiting a lot longer than you. |
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What a freakin great hire. Seriously, 13 fumbles in 8 years? That is unreal. Just thinking about how Gray fumbled at the 1 against Navy to set up that near collapse still pisses me off, but I think those days are over. Hard, physical running is definitely what we lacked last year out of the RB's. If Alford can get those guys, espcially Hughes, to run with the same intensity as the backs at ISU did, we are in for some great days. Outstanding pick-up for the Irish. |
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Thanks for the info on his zone blocking connection, Michael. |
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And regarding the rumors that ND is sitting on Weis until signing day, then going to hire Gruden: what a bunch of bullcrap. I can think of one person down in Florida that has repeatedly tried to torpedo our program through rumors and innuendo. I wouldn't put it past Urban Liar to be the one behind all of this nonsense. |
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"I wouldn't put it past Urban Liar to be the one behind all of this nonsense." |
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Great hire! Weis knows how to hire good people when he gets the ones he wants, i.e., Corwin Brown, Tenuta, Cutcliffe -- who know how different our development offense would have been if he had stayed. I am not conviced that Verducci was who he really wanted (not that we will ever know or that he can could get a great hire with the current state of the program), but I am optmistic that Alford and Verducci combined can get us enough improvment for short-yardage plays. We don't need a 1,000-yeard rusher; we need a consistent 3-yard back (who doesn't fumble of course). |
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im sure charlie is working his ass off with the DL hire....but at the same time, it sure is taking a while.... |
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I think Verducci and Alford will do just fine. Sometimes it isn't necessarily that the the previous guys weren't good, but just that whatever they were doing wasn't working or that the message got stale. Hopefully, the new guys can light a fire under the collective asses of the offensive line. |
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"We don't need a 1,000-yeard rusher; we need a consistent 3-yard back." |
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Per the above Gruden rumor, I'm sure that UF's Head Coach has nothing better to think of than how to sink Notre Dame's program. Like most of us, he probably sees our current head coach already doing a great job of it. |
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Besides the talking heads on a slow news day, please tell me that no one is buying the "Gruden conspiracy". |
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NDNE: |
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Interesting article on recruiting |
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Can someone find John Saunders and ask him if we are still racist? |
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This is an illustration of why Charlie, despite whatever flaws he or his teams have had, is the right guy to be running the program. He is a natural CEO and excellent at getting talented people around him. Despite the frustrations, this is a recipe for long term success and success at this point is just a matter of time. GO IRISH! |
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Agreed indy, I would've liked to have seen other people do the job he has done, as crappy as they have played the last few years.....unfortunately, he is learning on the job and while that sucks, it seems he is fixing his mistakes.....now lets see if that translates on the field |
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1. the gruden rumor is false, but just for giggles, if that guy was hired, he would set ND back 30 yrs, or possibly end the program. an absolute horrible guy to his core |
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Interesting article from the Sports Illustrated site. |
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What....the F***.....is that? |
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Just spam, Brad. It'll be deleted soon I imagine. I bet it happens more often than we realize and is just deleted before we notice it. |
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You guys don't remember chris? How very sad. ;-) |
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Belocki, he's done it before. It'snot out of the realm |
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"I'm sure that UF's Head Coach has nothing better to think of than how to sink Notre Dame's program. Like most of us, he probably sees our current head coach already doing a great job of it." |
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First of all, its not like Urban Meyer is out there attempting to destroy ND's recruiting. For one, if there is any coach out there recruiting on a kid that is also being recruited by ND, you gotta pull out all the stops, because ND just has so many natural recruiting advantages (history, campus, education, etc.) that other schools can't match. Its not like Urban is doing anything different than any other sane head coach out there. There job is to get those kids into their school. |
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'"I'm sure that UF's Head Coach has nothing better to think of than how to sink Notre Dame's program. Like most of us, he probably sees our current head coach already doing a great job of it."' |
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NDNE & Brad- |
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I think it is hilarious that people get on this board and act like they now what they are talking about when it comes to our coach doing this and their coach doing that. Nobody knows what happens in the living rooms of 18 year old kids except for that kid and his family. |
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I'm not saying that Meyer has a vendetta against ND, but I think you're naive if you think he's above using anything he can get against us on the recruiting trail. This is the same guy who tried to tell Trattou he was a 4-3 DE who would get lost in a 3-4 (Trattou is now playing tackle), reportedly told Jevan Snead that he was looking at Tebow to play linebacker, and tried to tell Omar Hunter that Mattison wasn't going anywhere when he had already been hired by Baltimore. |
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OC mj had the smartest take of all recently when she said that we would know Urban Meyer had designs on the ND job if he suddenly stops poaching Charlie's recruits. Brilliant! |
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Seems like common sense to me! |
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So the meeting with Tim Grunhard happened, and he went from "probably not" to this: |
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ok here's the link to the above entry: |
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Evidently $$$ talks. |
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It still starts with the OL |
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I've been accused several times now of "sour grapes" in regard to Urban Meyer, and that if he had chosen ND in '04 I would love him. That is not true, and it's fairly simple to prove: I did not even start watching college football until 2005. I didn't even know that Notre Dame was undergoing a coaching search in 2004, or who the hell Urban Meyer was. Every single part of my dislike for him has to do with things like his players getting arrested for shooting automatic weapons in parking lots or using their dead teammate's credit card, or things like him talking about how senior players have no intrinsic value after last year's bowl game. |
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I'll tell you how wanted Tony Alford is...Urban Meyer wanted him for Florida's running game but he turned them down for Louisville. He is a close friend of the family and I am VERY proud of what he has accomplished and will for ND in the near future. He is very excited about this opportunity and I can't wait to see ND on tv. |
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That's where the vendetta probably comes from...Tony turned down Florida and now he takes ND...I AM a close friend of his family, so this is all true what I am telling you. His brother, Aaron, is also a good DB coach for Utah. Their father played pro ball for the Steelers in the 60's, so football is in their blood. My old high school in Akron, Ohio(Archbishop Hoban), The Brothers of Holy Cross, teach there and they are from Notre Dame. This makes it very special for my family to see him coach at ND. |
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sweet |
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