Notre Dame Offense Built Momentum Thanks To Youth
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00:04 We talked about Ryan's season momentum, get two straight wins.
00:07 This is your ninth win of the season, which sets you up for
00:09 potential to get to ten, right?
00:11 That's improvement, all those different type of things.
00:14 You're setting up a potentially strong bowl matchup,
00:17 where you got a chance to get into the ReliQuest Bowl,
00:19 which is the old Outback Bowl, which is a good New Year's first bowl game.
00:23 It's not gonna excite anybody because it's got a new goofy name.
00:27 But if it was still Outback Bowl, we'd be kind of fired up about it,
00:30 because it's a major bowl game.
00:32 Fired up about it relative to, based on the disappointment of the season.
00:35 I mean, also we want it better, but you understand what I'm saying.
00:38 Yep, maybe playing an SEC team in that type of thing.
00:41 And all that requires a win, but there's other parts of it too, right?
00:45 And one of the things that excited me about last week wasn't just the
00:48 aggressiveness and those type of things.
00:50 It was a clearly a concerted effort to go through a bit of a youth movement
00:53 on offense.
00:55 Some of it by necessity, because you're kind of just young at all those
00:59 positions, but the other part of it is not being afraid.
01:03 It was a mindset.
01:04 Hey, you know what?
01:04 I know we're young.
01:07 You know, Chris Tyree's a senior, and Aldrich's a junior, and basically
01:10 everybody else that played from a skilled position stamp on Saturday,
01:13 Jaden Thomas played a little bit, were freshmen and sophomores.
01:16 They said, let's lean into it.
01:17 Let's coach with some confidence.
01:19 And that was the big thing we saw last week, Ryan.
01:21 We said it leading into the game.
01:24 You want to know why the young players are struggling?
01:26 Because they know the coaches don't have confidence in them.
01:29 How do they know that?
01:30 Look at the game plans against teams like Clemson.
01:33 They know we don't have faith in you.
01:34 Well, Saturday they came out and said, hey guys, we have faith in you.
01:37 We're going to take some shots.
01:38 We're going to do some things.
01:39 And the players went out there and played hard.
01:41 And they say, well, how do you-- why do you play hard?
01:44 How do you know what plays are going to-- because you practice that stuff all week.
01:47 You practice taking all those shots all week.
01:49 You practiced all those different things that you were doing.
01:52 You--
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