Rakes Report #176: Just goes to show that the blood you bleed is just the blood you owe (The Virginia Tech Review)
rakesreport.substack.com
~optional musical accompaniment~ If you were forwarded this email and would like to sign up to receive future editions, you can do so here. 1) I was debating whether to make this edition 500 words of shrugging at what transpired Saturday evening in Blacksburg or ten times that amount futilely trying to explain and I think we’ll fall somewhere in the middle with an attempted lean toward brevity. Brian Kelly opted to start Jack Coan on the road, which was a thing very few Notre Dame fans wanted to see. The decision was immediately proven wrong, with the Irish offense averaging two yards per play before Coan was replaced, but then Kelly was also totally validated by Coan’s play when he came back in cold and resembled 2019 Joe Burrow, rolling Notre Dame down the field twice to win the game. Both of those descriptions of the starter choice are accurate and I am not quite sure how to go about reconciling that dichotomy. You could do worse than “Didn’t work, but also worked, and Notre Dame won” as an epigraph for the Kelly tenure.
Rakes Report #176: Just goes to show that the blood you bleed is just the blood you owe (The Virginia Tech Review)
Rakes Report #176: Just goes to show that the…
Rakes Report #176: Just goes to show that the blood you bleed is just the blood you owe (The Virginia Tech Review)
~optional musical accompaniment~ If you were forwarded this email and would like to sign up to receive future editions, you can do so here. 1) I was debating whether to make this edition 500 words of shrugging at what transpired Saturday evening in Blacksburg or ten times that amount futilely trying to explain and I think we’ll fall somewhere in the middle with an attempted lean toward brevity. Brian Kelly opted to start Jack Coan on the road, which was a thing very few Notre Dame fans wanted to see. The decision was immediately proven wrong, with the Irish offense averaging two yards per play before Coan was replaced, but then Kelly was also totally validated by Coan’s play when he came back in cold and resembled 2019 Joe Burrow, rolling Notre Dame down the field twice to win the game. Both of those descriptions of the starter choice are accurate and I am not quite sure how to go about reconciling that dichotomy. You could do worse than “Didn’t work, but also worked, and Notre Dame won” as an epigraph for the Kelly tenure.