Scoreboard
Watching
Will offense come of age
in Brian Kelly���s ���senior��� season?
By Lou Somogyi
���Offense wins games;
defense wins championships.���
T
his exhausting bromide is repeated
annually on telecasts about, oh ���
several hundred times
per football season.
It is accurate to state
that defense was the primary reason why Notre
Dame was the top surprise of the 2012 college
football regular season
with a 12-0 record and
No.�� 1 national ranking.
It wasn���t a coincidence
Rising junior quarterback
Everett Golson���s biggest challenge in 2013 will be to improve
Notre Dame���s red-zone efficiency, after the Irish scored
touchdowns on only 48.3 percent of their opportunities in
2012.
photo by bill panzica