When Notre Dame High School football coach Charles Fant and his staff sat down to view video on the Fighting Irish’s opponent for Friday night, they came up with an offensive blueprint they felt pretty good about.
“They told me they were going to put the ball in my hands this week,” senior running back Auston Banks said.
Banks made the Irish staff look like quite the perceptive group as he ran for 281 yards with four touchdowns in the first half and scored a receiving TD in the second half and Class AA Notre Dame handed Class A Boyd-Buchanan a 50-7 whipping at Notre Dame.
After winning the coin toss and taking the ball, the Irish completed a pass to highly touted and Louisville-bound wide receiver Kareem Orr for 5 yards. But that ended up being his only statistical contribution.
After two runs for short gains by Banks, his third carry went for 65 yards and a touchdown.