Why?

[padman59]

Someone explain this to me.

Notre Dame consistently has top recruiting classes, so you'd expect them to have top athletes. Yet their defense always looks like it's moving in slow motion, and this has been the case under multiple coaching regimes now. They ran into some blackleticism and looked mesmerized yesterday.

I asked yesterday in the chatbox and Irish told me ND doesn't recruit speed players (why not?) padman told me it's coaching (although I saw him blaming the cleats earlier).

BTW Fuck ND and their fans.

Good coaching/scheme allows the players to react faster. When you're running a complicated defensive scheme (as they did under Weis), you're making the players think before they react. Also, emphasizing fundamentals allows players to break blocks, take better pursuit angles, and make tackles among other things which allow players to make plays instead of looking lost/slow.

LOL at you implying that I blamed the cleats for ND not playing fast. I was only remarking on why ND players seem to slip so much on the field. For a few years now, Irish players have had problems slipping on the turf while other teams seem to have no problem keeping traction. While athleticism may play a part in these instances, cleats seem to be the common denominator.

[nflman2033]

Exactly, and I'll add that most - not all - ND fans come across like cocky dickheads for no apparent reason at all other than the fact that they are "ND."

ND fans just rub me the wrong way, in the same way that Cowboys fans and Yankees fans rub me the wrong way. This thread and the "Official Notre Dame Football" thread are perfect examples of that. Only an ND/Cowboys/Yankees fans would make such threads. Fucking pricks.

I'm sorry

[Sportsbuck]

While athleticism may play a part in these instances, cleats seem to be the common denominator.

"They got the wrong shoes on"

[Sportsbuck]

But, on a serious note, fuck Adidas cleats.

Nike Vapors FTMFW, I'd never wear anything else.

[FirstTimer]

In addition to everything that's already been said there's also the fact that ND's fanbase is easily one of the worst overall.

You got the people who claim they root for ND because they are part Irish.
Because they are catholic or because they grew up watching them (aka they watched 1 game a year as a kid and hopped on a bandwagon).

A lot of their fans couldn't find ND on a map, live no where near the school and are quick to root for a different school when college basketball rolls around but they'll swear they're the biggest ND fans alive. Only fanbase that even compares is the Miami football only fans who root for the U hoping some of the Swag runs off on them.

Ugly cousin Purdue is bitter.