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We need to replace our horrible coach and go back to South Bend and get a better one
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:35 pm
No, not their head coach Marcus Freeman. We need to throw the bank at Brian Mason, their special teams coach.
Since getting rid of Brian Polian, in one season under Mason, Notre Dame has become the best special teams unit in the nation. They have blocked SEVEN punts this season and as a coach his unit has blocked 18 punts/kicks since 2020. For comparison, under Polian the Irish had blocked six kicks in five years. Now, blocked kicks isn't the end all for special teams, but their turnaround as a unit has been remarkable.
A quote from Mason in the article:
“We’ll kind of go through the analytical reports to see if there’s anything out of the ordinary. And then we always watch every blocked kick, punt and fake that we can. To then show our guys, either from a learning standpoint of blocking something or from a learning standpoint of how to defend a fake. We watch all those kinds of things.”
After seeing the abortion of the poorly coached special teams unit we have run out there each week, and then read a quote like this, it seems pretty obvious we can do a LOT better
Notre Dame's Brian Mason killing it in South Bend
Since getting rid of Brian Polian, in one season under Mason, Notre Dame has become the best special teams unit in the nation. They have blocked SEVEN punts this season and as a coach his unit has blocked 18 punts/kicks since 2020. For comparison, under Polian the Irish had blocked six kicks in five years. Now, blocked kicks isn't the end all for special teams, but their turnaround as a unit has been remarkable.
A quote from Mason in the article:
“We’ll kind of go through the analytical reports to see if there’s anything out of the ordinary. And then we always watch every blocked kick, punt and fake that we can. To then show our guys, either from a learning standpoint of blocking something or from a learning standpoint of how to defend a fake. We watch all those kinds of things.”
After seeing the abortion of the poorly coached special teams unit we have run out there each week, and then read a quote like this, it seems pretty obvious we can do a LOT better
Notre Dame's Brian Mason killing it in South Bend
This post was edited on 12/5/22 at 12:37 pm
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Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:37 pm to Basura Blanco
Very nice title sir 
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:38 pm to Basura Blanco
Click bait article. You should consider working for the advocate
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:39 pm to Basura Blanco
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:39 pm to Basura Blanco
We need to move him to another role if we can figure that out because apparently he’s pretty invaluable in not just raw recruiting, but organization of the recruiting machine. Gets a lot of GM qualities from his dad.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:40 pm to Captain Crown
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Very nice title sir
It is deceptive, misleading, rather churlish and gets results. Just what I want from my special teams
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:40 pm to IndianInBR
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Click bait article. You should consider working for the advocate
Yea or Fox News
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:42 pm to IndianInBR
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Click bait article. You should consider working for the advocate
The thread title is obviously misleading. What is misleading about the article?
Mason's units have blocked 18 punts/kicks in three years. Our unit is the worst in college football. Tell me what is misleading about that.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:49 pm to Basura Blanco
You can’t just go to South Bend and take a coach
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:53 pm to Art Vandelay
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You can’t just go to South Bend and take a coach
What you did has been seen.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 12:58 pm to Art Vandelay
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You can’t just go to South Bend and take a coach
I bet the route is still pre-programmed in the Gulfstream's navigation system. Hell, if Woodward left anything in his hotel room, they still have it in lost and found.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 1:16 pm to IndianInBR
Clickbait title to op too.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 1:51 pm to Basura Blanco
I'd like LSU to try to poach the guy from South Carolina. Pete Lembo, unfortunately, is also the AHC so not sure how that would work.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 2:33 pm to mdomingue
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Pete Lembo, unfortunately, is also the AHC so not sure how that would work.
I didn't realize until today that Brian Polian was the AHC in 2021 at Notre Dame. I'm not sure if you can read something into this, but Kelly chose to give Frank Wilson that title this year at LSU, instead of Polian. It could be that Polian was better suited as Rec Coordinator, or it could be he didn't work out as AHC in his one year, or Kelly gave it Wilson as a condition of employment, who knows.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 2:35 pm to Lester Earl
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Yea or Fox News
Stick to the one thing you know about-football
Posted on 12/5/22 at 2:36 pm to Basura Blanco
Thanks for telling me not to click. Appreciate it
Posted on 12/5/22 at 2:51 pm to Basura Blanco
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his unit has blocked 18 punts/kicks since 2020
I’m pretty sure LSU has only blocked 3 punts in the last 18 years and two of them have been by Micah Baskerville
Posted on 12/5/22 at 3:00 pm to Cooterlane
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Thanks for telling me not to click. Appreciate it
You are welcome? But why would you not read the article? It is about a special teams coordinator that is getting results that is light years better than the one we have. Now the title of the original post was totally misleading. Guilty.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 4:17 pm to Basura Blanco
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I didn't realize until today that Brian Polian was the AHC in 2021 at Notre Dame. I'm not sure if you can read something into this, but Kelly chose to give Frank Wilson that title this year at LSU, instead of Polian.
I think it has more to do with who Frank is in regard to his legacy at LSU. It was a smart move.
Posted on 12/5/22 at 11:34 pm to Basura Blanco
I want some of this and less of Polian. A change of some sort has to be made.
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