Echoes of greatness?
Ian Book has now run 426 plays under center for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The quarterback has overseen 247 run plays and 179 pass plays.
Everett Golson’s first 426 plays as Notre Dame quarterback during the Irish’s perfect 2012 regular season? Two hundred and forty seven run plays and 179 pass plays.
I’ve been comparing the Irish quarterbacks to their predecessors by the number of plays they’ve run as opposed to games played because I think it makes for more interesting comparisons. (My previous installments are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.