Duke 38 Notre Dame 35

Now that seems very strange to write that header, yet Duke comes in with 2 losses, freshman QB and rolls up 500 yds on ND – actually just shy. QB Jones accounted for 3 TD passes and 1 pick. Duke’s best player injured his knee in the 1st quarter or this score would have been worse.

I think Kelly’s presser says it all, he’s hoping mad at everyone associated with this team except Dexter Williams. Kelly really goes after QB Kizer which seems odd since Kizer has to carry the whole team. Was he sharp? No, but he did account for 381 yds. 2TD 1 Pick and 1 rush TD.

Here is Brian Kelly’s after game press conference:

This is a team that is sinking fast and it’s hard to believe many favored ND to make the Final Four. Now 6-6 would be considered a good finish. Little to add here, but Kelly threatening to bring in Wimbush is absurd and merely a shot at Kizer.

He should be jumping all over the OL for if Kizer was better protected and the running game is blocking better we wouldn’t be having half of these problems. No straight ahead blocking. We still insist on running east-west.

So what else is going on? Well Wisconsin held MSU to 2 first half FG’s and won 30-6. Nevada lost to Purdue and Syracuse edged UCONN so I guess Diaco is on the hot seat there. Syracuse, by the way, runs an uptempo offense.

With Kelly burning down the entire team how does he get anything out of them? The way he’s talking, he’ll have 22 different starters for Syracuse.

Finally, the Defense. Nothing else left to say about them although I did see them more aggressive in tackling. The only problem is that while they were hitting harder all that did for them is bounce them further backward. Also, the DL just cannot work up the energy to play more than 7 minutes or so.

Here are the game highlights: