All the turnovers last night made ND look better than they really are. It’s still the same team that barely lost to Ohio State, and also barely got by Duke, and was outplayed all night by Louisville. If your content with 8-4, 9-3 fine, but I’m not.
Kike is not any fall guy for the season. Just a bad resigning to begin with, and one of the many things that went wrong. There could be plenty of fall guys from JH down to the players. Take your pick.
I just don’t believe if you put the job out there that he would have been the best candidate for the job, and if he already hadn’t been in the building he wouldn’t have gotten the job. I said after last season with the schedule for this year I saw an 8-4 team, which now at the best 9-3. That’s not good enough at ND.
It was Bloom’s fault for resigning Kike with a raise at that in the first place. It was Cora’s fault for keeping Kike at SS until he was told not to. It’s not really that hard to see that.
The coach was a way to quick hire after Kelly left, and a more thorough search should have been done. Freeman was not the best candidate for the job, but was handy.
I still think not trading any top prospects for 5 years was all Bloom. DD was coming off the WS of 2018, so I wouldn’t count 2019, so that leaves it all on Bloom where I think the decision not to was all on him. I don’t think JH is that much into that part of the operations like he Used to at one time, so to me it’s all Bloom.
It’s pure speculation on your part that the so called master plan by JH was to not trade any top prospects. Bloom yes, but there is NO proof it was on orders from JH.
I think Cora had more to do with Franchy, Arroyo, and Kike than Bloom, and I’ve never exonerated Cora for that. I think Cora had to be told to get Kike off SS.