He d call a play in the first quarter and if it worked well, he d go away from it, set up the other team and then come back to it late in the game. It s important that coaches establish a varying pattern because the opposition is always looking for you to do the same thing that you ran the play before. Unfortunately, that s what the Notre Dame offense has been doing lately. When the Irish offense is so stereotyped, you can almost tell what they are going to do before they do it in any given situation. Even though the game has changed a lot since I played, the basics remain the same.
Football is still a game of blocking and tackling.
Kids today still need to get discipline from their coaches if they want to succeed. But nobody seems to exact that at Notre Dame. Bob Williams played quarterback for the Irish during the 1948-50 seasons. He earned All-America honors in his senior year and finished sixth in voting for the Heisman Trophy. His quarterback efficiency rating of 161.4 in 1949 still ranks No.1 on Notre Dame s all-time list.