The Game Plan: Rutgers vs Notre Dame

[The RUT]

Let me start this by saying, Pike made the GP and you gotta roll with the GP. Rutgers had multiple opportunities to win the game, so clearly it wasn’t a terrible GP, we just couldn’t close it out.

I did find it to be a bit odd though.

All season long and the culture he has built has been all about defense. Not worrying about your team hitting a certain number, but rather preventing your opponent from hitting their number.

Pike essentially decided giving up a 2 is better than giving up a 3. I just thought it was very weird that his entire defensive GP was built on the very fact that he’s willing to give up points.

I’m curious what everyone’s thoughts are on this board about that.

 

[Plum Street]

The game plan was good enough . We should have won.
Where he messed up was the inbounds play and the last 8 seconds on defense in overtime.

 

[The RUT]

The game plan was good enough . We should have won.
Where he messed up was the inbounds play and the last 8 seconds on defense in overtime.

I agree, I just thought it was strange that he built a game plan against the culture he built