OT: Notre Dame to install 3-4 defense...

[Seneschal2]

Irish defense excited to learn 3-4 details

Not many of the veteran defenders on Notre Dame’s team know much about the 3-4 look yet after playing the previous two years in a 4-3 configuration under former defensive coordinator Rick Minter.

Then Irish head coach Charlie Weis fired Minter after the 2006 season and replaced him with Corwin Brown, a first-time coordinator who spent time with the University of Virginia, the New England Patriots and most recently, the New York Jets, all of which run, you guessed it, a 3-4 defense.
When it comes to college football, Virginia is one of the few colleges using a 3-4, and coach Al Groh came from the same Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick coaching branch.

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Notre Dame -- home of future Patriots, now on both sides of the ball.

 

[DarrylS]

Makes sense that our AAA franchise is on the same page as the bigs...

 

[dhamz]

Unless they get a lot better athletes on that side of the ball it isn't going to matter what scheme they play.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

About damn time - watching ND's version of the 4-3 defense was a gutwrenching proposition.

 

[Box_O_Rocks]

Unless they get a lot better athletes on that side of the ball it isn't going to matter what scheme they play.

About damn time - watching ND's version of the 4-3 defense was a gutwrenching proposition.

Ditto to both.

 

[psychoPat]

And ...
that would provide a soft landing for Romeo
after Lerner cans him next year.

 

[patriotsdynasty12189]

So now I take it our "farm system" is this.

New England Patriots Majors

Notre Dame Fighting Irish AAA

Alabama Crimson Tide AA

Fresno State Bulldogs(lol) A

 

[zippo59]

The 3-4 is the hot thing in football right now. Only thing it takes very specific types of players and coaches for it to be successfull.

 

[patsfan55]

And ...
that would provide a soft landing for Romeo
after Lerner cans him next year.

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i hope not, i hope he comes back here

 

[jbb9s]

So now I take it our "farm system" is this.

New England Patriots Majors

Notre Dame Fighting Irish AAA

Alabama Crimson Tide AA

Fresno State Bulldogs(lol) A

Umm......wide receiver boot camp: U.Florida.

 

[sebman2112]

So now I take it our "farm system" is this.

New England Patriots Majors

Notre Dame Fighting Irish AAA

Alabama Crimson Tide AA

Fresno State Bulldogs(lol) A

Nah, the amount of talent sent up the next few years will be in this order:

1. Florida (Urban Meyer's Gators mind you)
2. Alabama (Alabama already has some good talent, so Saban being their is just a plus.)
3. Notre Dame (This could improve with Parcells out in Big D, but that remains to be seen.)
4. Fresno State (I think Hill could be on the outs if he has another bad season, so I'm not counting on him being there in two years.)

 

[LiveShot]

Notre Dame has very high academic standards and the final say is with a student committee to keep everything on the up and up. They have a difficult time recruiting athletes who are too lazy to learn and just want to play football. So the "student athletes" go to" Miami, Tennessee, Ohio State, FSU, Alabama, LSU, Arkansas, Texas .........and the list goes on.