Today’s installment of our wildly popular series, Know Thyself, Know Thy Enemy, features that most Notre Dame-y of position groups, the running backs. Fittingly, perhaps the greatest Notre Dame running back of them all, Jerome Bettis, was enshrined on Saturday in the NFL Hall of Fame. Do the Irish of 2015 have another Bus in the depot?
Frustratingly, no. Tarean Folston and C.J. Prosise, a converted wide-receiver, have the potential to be as dynamic a backfield duo as any before them, but potential is a funny thing. The loss of Greg Bryant for the season to academic ineligibility makes the loss of Cam McDaniel to graduation and a supporting role in Zoolander 2 especially hard felt.