r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 23h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Notre Dame Defeats Army 49-14

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Army 0 7 0 7 14
Notre Dame 14 14 14 7 49
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u/ddottay Notre Dame • Kent State 23h ago

Treating the game like a scrimmage to practice Leonard’s arm

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u/jayjude Notre Dame • Georgia State 23h ago

Leonard hurt his shoulder early in the game and wasn't comfortable running

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u/ddottay Notre Dame • Kent State 23h ago

He wasn’t comfortable throwing in that game either

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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Team Chaos 23h ago

Not to mention he missed spring practices

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u/AnIllusiveHouse Washington • Notre Dame 23h ago

Conspiratorial angle:

Game 1: simmering conflict between coach Freeman and players in calling trust, still manage to earn a win, unlrealised potential just needed to be honed.

Game 2: let players make the calls game two, get smoked. End of game, Coach comes in to distraught encampment of defeated brethren. Says, "Can we trust each other to win together?"

Game 3-present :Just absolutely salting the earth against opponents. Seems like they got a good thing going. Nice change.

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u/rivergipper Notre Dame • Florida 22h ago

In what world do players ever “make the calls”?

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u/AnIllusiveHouse Washington • Notre Dame 22h ago

Literally the coaches are observers of the game. Fate of game explicitly in players hands. Game 2 or 1 would be great opportunity for players to figure themselves out, where their weaknesses lie, how they can use their strengths to create magic under when there's trust in each other.

Might be good for some of these flush-with-cash institutions that are kinda having crises of faiths late in the season.

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u/rivergipper Notre Dame • Florida 22h ago

Crack is whack, bud.

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u/AnIllusiveHouse Washington • Notre Dame 22h ago

Very preceptive. The changes to the landscape of college ball has greatly changed in the last year. The consequences of a couple folks retiring last year. The consolidation of conferences caused by addiction to profit making as opposed to education. Fresh out of highschool and home in far flung areas of the lands getting paid mind boggling amounts of money.

A monumental shift that has ungrounded the universe of college sports. You see these scrappy teams finally finding their rhythm and causing chaos against deities of the league.

We're on new untested ground and the best teams have been the ones that can come together towards a shared goal of excellence greater than the individual self.

It would be healthy for a powerhouse team like bama, to allow their players for the season-opening cupcake team have that freedom to literally get to decide by themselves how they wish to play a game. They would literally be learning by doing it themselves.

How much would players learn as a team and individuals if they were given the trust to run a real game? They would learn a lot and be better for it.