[NDIrish]

[quote author=NDIrish link=topic=13731.msg143426#msg143426 date=1448374787]
They have been impressive at times and not so much at others. 

"They" = und, yes?

So, what do you think und's best performances have been this season?

While you obviously have watched them more closely than I, from my view, in the sense of overall control of play vs quality opposition, und's best performances have probably been the loss to Clemson and the blow-out of Navy.

Clemson is obviously good, and after the first two Clemson drives, und really controlled the overall sense of play. The TO margin did them in.

The issue with Navy is that is is hard to judge their quality. UND is the only Power 5 team they have played, and they got whupped pretty handily there. But for und it was a pretty convincing win over a team that can be hard to play.
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Yes UND,  i agree judging against Navy is very hard.  They are a good team, but most power 5 teams are going to be more athletic, the key is being 100% disciplined to beat them.  The advantage ND has is playing them every year, so they know how to prepare for them, where great teams get in trouble is playing them randomly because your players and coaches aren't used to it.

So i would say nd's top 4 performances would be :  Georgia Tech, Navy, Clemson, Pitt.  The Georgia tech game was a complete blowout, it was like 30-7 with a little over a minute left, the team was getting in all the second stringers and Georgia tech score back to back in a minute.  I would put texas in there, but that was a different QB, so i will ignore that because its a different team now.  Already discussed navy, as well as Clemson in an earlier post.  And pitt was a lot like Georgia tech, i think it was like 42-17 at halfway through he 4th quarter, back up (previously 4th string) qb fumbles and pitt runs in back and one final score made it look closer.

The one additional thing i will say about Clemson is their defensive line is for real and ND got pushed around.  I think Kelly was supper protective of Kizer being his first BIG road game and limited what he would do, about halfway through the 3rd quarter i think kelly realized we were going to lose if nothing changed, so he took the training wheels of and just started throwing the ball all over the place and it put it us in a position to win, just too little to late.

[NDIrish]

[quote author=NDIrish link=topic=13731.msg143426#msg143426 date=1448374787]
They have been impressive at times and not so much at others. 

"They" = und, yes?

So, what do you think und's best performances have been this season?

While you obviously have watched them more closely than I, from my view, in the sense of overall control of play vs quality opposition, und's best performances have probably been the loss to Clemson and the blow-out of Navy.

Clemson is obviously good, and after the first two Clemson drives, und really controlled the overall sense of play. The TO margin did them in.

The issue with Navy is that is is hard to judge their quality. UND is the only Power 5 team they have played, and they got whupped pretty handily there. But for und it was a pretty convincing win over a team that can be hard to play.
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Yes UND,  i agree judging against Navy is very hard.  They are a good team, but most power 5 teams are going to be more athletic, the key is being 100% disciplined to beat them.  The advantage ND has is playing them every year, so they know how to prepare for them, where great teams get in trouble is playing them randomly because your players and coaches aren't used to it.

So i would say nd's top 4 performances would be :  Georgia Tech, Navy, Clemson, Pitt.  The Georgia tech game was a complete blowout, it was like 30-7 with a little over a minute left, the team was getting in all the second stringers and Georgia tech score back to back in a minute.  I would put texas in there, but that was a different QB, so i will ignore that because its a different team now.  Already discussed navy, as well as Clemson in an earlier post.  And pitt was a lot like Georgia tech, i think it was like 42-17 at halfway through he 4th quarter, back up (previously 4th string) qb fumbles and pitt runs in back and one final score made it look closer.

The one additional thing i will say about Clemson is their defensive line is for real and ND got pushed around.  I think Kelly was supper protective of Kizer being his first BIG road game and limited what he would do, about halfway through the 3rd quarter i think kelly realized we were going to lose if nothing changed, so he took the training wheels of and just started throwing the ball all over the place and it put it us in a position to win, just too little to late.