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[QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 5573099, member: 994"]
Took 24 hours off to marinate on this.

Not an earth shattering take by any means, but if Fran wants to keep his job, the way this season has been handled can never be repeated again IMHO.

The worst part about it is the utter capitulation and lack of effort on display (by both players and coaches, frankly.)

Is this team woefully inadequate at positions on both sides of the ball.

Yes.

Fatally so.

But none of what was on display yesterday was DART,  and talk is just talk, if actions don't back it up.

I am certainly not expecting blood from a stone, and ND is one of the best teams in the country. We were going to lose, so it's all about how you lose and how we lost was literally a national embarrassment.

Making an effort to compete is the bare minimum we should expect from a team and its coaches, and we've fallen woefully below this mark, sadly. And it's seemingly by design.

On the plus side, we have a good recruiting class coming in (if it holds together) and we clearly need key pieces from the portal to get an immediate impact on deficiencies. Here's hoping we have the NIL we need to secure those pieces as well.

That said, I never want to see a mailed-in season again. There are plenty of teams doing more with less or that at least TRY to be competitive with a lower spread of talent. Waving the white flag and treating the regular season as a set of write-off scrimmages is not acceptable. Either big boy pants on or we need to go in another direction.

What we're witnessing is GERG-level of ineptitude and I honestly thought I'd never say that again. The good news is there's nowhere to go but up... But there should be no more mulligans.
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