Love these articles, integral part to my weekly ND fan routine! But ... I think we need to stop referencing "a roster that's likely to be the least talented [Freeman will] ever have."
We are #10 in the 247 Talent Composite. There's Blue Chippers all over the field. Kelly didn't "leave the cupboard bare" ... every program outside Bama, UGA and Ohio St will have holes or depth issues somewhere on the roster.
And yes the 2023 class sits at #3 but likely settles outside top 5 ... and that's not to mention the on field performance starts significantly raising the risk of more de-commits.
I think that's two separate things, right? This roster is still talented like you said (with limitations at a couple very important positions for 2022 college football) which makes the fact the Irish aren't 5-1 very frustrating, because the offensive line and defense should be better. But the entire gamble of the Freeman hire was even if he was X% worse at some coaching stuff than BK/generic replacement candidate he was going to be Y% better at recruiting, with Y being greater than X. This is the highest X is ever going to be (hopefully?) and we're yet to see any benefits from Y.
thanks very much for reading, appreciate the note.
Completely agree. My main concern is that the X% worse at coaching is much larger than expected, which also has an impact on the Y% (Y is partially a function of X).
Vegas O/U for ND wins is at 6.5. I'd imagine 6-6 or 7-5 starts leading to de-commits. Hope not!
Love these articles, integral part to my weekly ND fan routine! But ... I think we need to stop referencing "a roster that's likely to be the least talented [Freeman will] ever have."
We are #10 in the 247 Talent Composite. There's Blue Chippers all over the field. Kelly didn't "leave the cupboard bare" ... every program outside Bama, UGA and Ohio St will have holes or depth issues somewhere on the roster.
And yes the 2023 class sits at #3 but likely settles outside top 5 ... and that's not to mention the on field performance starts significantly raising the risk of more de-commits.
I think that's two separate things, right? This roster is still talented like you said (with limitations at a couple very important positions for 2022 college football) which makes the fact the Irish aren't 5-1 very frustrating, because the offensive line and defense should be better. But the entire gamble of the Freeman hire was even if he was X% worse at some coaching stuff than BK/generic replacement candidate he was going to be Y% better at recruiting, with Y being greater than X. This is the highest X is ever going to be (hopefully?) and we're yet to see any benefits from Y.
thanks very much for reading, appreciate the note.
Completely agree. My main concern is that the X% worse at coaching is much larger than expected, which also has an impact on the Y% (Y is partially a function of X).
Vegas O/U for ND wins is at 6.5. I'd imagine 6-6 or 7-5 starts leading to de-commits. Hope not!
G'Irish