The worst decision of the night wasn’t any single one of offensive coordinator Gerad Parker’s third down play calls. It wasn’t any of quarterback Sam Hartman’s interceptions. The worst decision of the night was me waiting until Hartman’s second pick to stop watching that embarrassment on national television.
At halftime of the game, I figured Notre Dame would pull out another disappointing win in a slog. Then I planned to entitle this postgame column, “Keep It Simple Stupid.” That catchy little acronym “KISS” seemed appropriate for the apparent overthinking of Marcus Freeman and Parker.
Freeman maintained this week that Audric Estime should have gone down at the one-yard line against Duke so that a trailing Irish team could risk a game-winning field goal.