You usually think of quarterbacks as trying to avoid a ton of contact, but not here. You had Golson in the spring of 2013 and then the Frozen Five in 2014. Copyright 2016-2020 18Stripes.com | Powered by Fullbacks Don’t forget that folks.I’d argue that the ASU debacle was largely a coaching failure. Over the ensuing 35 offensive drives led by Golson the Irish scored 14 touchdowns and he passed for 863 yards on 90 attempts. It seemed he almost had an “attitude” about it. He fumbled 4 times against Stanford (losing 3) in 2012 and then only dropped the ball once with no lost fumbles over the next 9 starts.
Had he not been injured and missed the BYU game the record would be his alone.Do people really care about a somewhat arbitrary team statistic for individual achievement? He previously played quarterback for Notre Dame from 2011 to the spring of 2015. Everett Golson’s mother’s name is unknown at this time and his father’s name is under review. The thing about him was that he never even looked flustered when guys were bearing down on him. There’s a reason Mike Denbrock was jettisoned after the 2016 season.I don’t disagree that it was a coaching failure, PubliusI’ve never liked judging interactions and how we perceive emotion from players on the field. What he tried didn’t work but that’s not to say something else would’ve worked.
But college football doesn’t work that way–you only get 4 years, your time is short, you can’t throw whole seasons away due to academics, and the microscope is so intense that even one turnover can turn a career for the worse. Nice guy but a bust as an ND qb, by the way. If anything it was Golson’s action that caused the fracture in the relationship. Golson was 4-of-5 for 50 yards to get the ball to the LSU 22, and Zaire had two runs to set up Brindza, who was 3-of-9 on field goals in the previous five games. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tommy-rees-is-notre-dames-starter-and-it-could-be-worse
Yet, if you don’t throw a pick for 5 straight games but toss up 4 to the opponent like the Arizona State game in 2014 it’s not a winning formula where every game matters in college.Golson’s issues with fumbles really highlight the way the football gods humbled him and let’s not forget he was able to set the school record for consecutive completions because a failed spike attempt was ruled a fumble. Two of those interceptions came in the first half against North Carolina State on Nov. 14 — which was Golson’s last significant action of the season.He finishes his turbulent college career, which included starting in the national championship game as a freshman for Notre Dame, missing his sophomore season for academic misconduct and then being benched late in his junior season in 2014, with 8,171 total yards and 66 touchdowns.With Golson’s absence redshirt freshman J.J. Cosentino will be the team’s second string QB against Houston. As a result, I don’t like judging coaches too much on it, either. That seemed like a legit competition with Golson leading but Zaire doing well, too.Kelly also had this weird habit as the 2014 season wore on of not giving Golson a series off occasionally when it appeared that he could have used a break (Northwestern comes to mind, but there were others).