Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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the fifth quarter lou somogyi 'Well, I've Never'… Oh, I'm Sure You Have "What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget." — From the 1973 song, "The Way We Were" or the 28 years I've been at Blue & Gold Illustrated, there is an annual ritual after a Notre Dame defeat (Michigan) or even a close call versus an opponent (Purdue) that "shouldn't even be in the game." The first is receiving the predictable mail on predictable play calling by the coaching staff. People annually will note that in the course of watching the game with either their 7-year-old son or daughter, infirmed mother-in-law with se- The quarterback position inevitably will have its share of vere memory loss, or a wife/ turnovers, whether it's Tommy Rees today or legends from the girlfriend who has no interest in past. photo by bill panzica sports, "even they were calling the next play each time. If they could do "Why the heck did they try to fix someit, just think how the team on the other thing that was not broken? They're side already knows what's coming." over-coaching again. Just let the players It didn't help Brian Kelly and Co. play." when Alabama players after last year's During a halftime sideline interview 42-14 BCS National Championship this Sept. 14, Purdue head coach DarGame rout pointed out that they could rell Hazell noted how his team had always count on Notre Dame's defense scouted Notre Dame's tendencies and to line up in a certain look in specific responded to them, and later there was situations. talk of how formations and personnel It was the same look that made them groupings also tipped off Purdue. 12-0 in the first place. Had too much When they don't work, you are "stubbeen altered or tweaked before the Al- born, mule-head and predictable." abama game, and a blowout had still When they do, it's because you "impose occurred, then the natural reaction is, your will." F