Notre Dame (football only discussion)

[el mastiff]

I apologize if this was previously posted, but I think this commercial sums up the Notre Dame football fan.

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[BuckeyeNation27]

seriously....wasn't the king pretending to be an OSU fan at one point?

[cincibuck]

Originally Posted by king rhabuf

You're off on this one:

Nope, I could give a [censored] what the SOS claims, the fact remains Michigan was oh and 2 when they played, Purdue is now 5/2 and has beaten no one, MSU is on it's way to a 6 and 6 season, UCLA gave up 44 points to Utah and can't beat their way out of a wet paper bag or the Notre Dame defense. Georgia Tech is a middle of the road ACC (Almost College Capable) team... I will give you that BC is maybe a top ten team.

BTW, I'm willing to bet the SOS you quote was developed BEFORE the season began.

[sandgk]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27

seriously....wasn't the king pretending to be an OSU fan at one point?

Yeah - well he did try to engage in discussion of the Buckeyes back before his life-size Quinn fathead and blow-up Weis love doll came through the mail.

Originally Posted by cincibuck

BTW, I'm willing to bet the SOS you quote was developed BEFORE the season began.

Actually it is the current SOS - from Sagarin ND #2, Washington #1 etc.

But - that is besides the point. ND hasn't lost their games because the schedule was tough. They have lost them because they were ill-prepared and (with departures by the week it seems) under-manned.

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by king rhabuf

Heh, if only we played powerhouses like Youngstown St., Akron, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Kent St.

Youd be 2-3 at best.

[SNIPER26]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

Youd be 2-3 at best.

I highly doubt they would do that well. I know 1-AA teams , and YSU would beat ND. I'd bet a good chunk of money that ND, led by Jimmah Quadheisman Clausen, he of the mythical 1:5 TD:INT ratio, would be at best 1-4.

[Oh8ch]

The ND fans are always talking about how overrated OSU is. I remember in particular 2005 when we were bombarded with that message.

ND fans have zero credibility. You thumped your chests in 2005 when you backed into a BCS Bowl you were not prepared for. You thumped your chests in 2006 when you backed into a BCS Bowl you were not prepared for. And you have been thumping your chests for three years about the wonderful Coaching hire you have made - whose major accomplishment this year will be having a record number of in-season transfers.

And yes - I know very well what happened in last years Title game. But we damn sure earned the right to be there.

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by Buckeye86

Unfortunately for you and Notre Dame, about 114 teams are flawed less than the Irish.

(crap, matcar was quicker than me)

HA! LOL CREMEPUFF! YOU ARE SO JEALOUS BECAUSE TRESSEL DOES NOT HAVE MAN BOOBS!

SAGARIN SAYS ONLY 77 TEAMS ARE BETTER THAN NOTRE DAME. WE WOULD GET CLOSE LOSS VICTORIES OVER ALL OF THEM. BUCKEYES COULD NOT BEAT US BY MORE THAN 50 POINTS, OUR VICTORY AND GLORY!

YOU DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL. ND #1

[Muck]

You can point out these losses, but every team is flawed in some way this year.

Notre Dame isn't flawed, it's an embaressment to Div III teams everywhere.

Originally Posted by Oh8ch

The ND fans are always talking about how overrated OSU is. I remember in particular 2005 when we were bombarded with that message.

...and 1995.

...and 1996.

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by king rhabuf

You're off on this one:

Quote:
Sagarin SOS to date:
1. Washington
2. Notre Dame
3. UNC
4. Stanford
5. FIU
6. Syracuse

I guess the simple point is this. We now play the heart of that #2 SOS that you are crowing about. For you, it is a tough schedule, yet the whole world is telling us that the Big Ten ain't diddle.

Either way, don't worry. Now you enter your traditional cremepuff schedule of Navy, Duke and the other powerhouses. Difference is that this year, they will all beat you like a drum, not just USC.

Sucks to be a Domer, doesn't it?

[Buckeye86]

Originally Posted by Steve19

Either way, don't worry. Now you enter your traditional cremepuff schedule of Navy, Duke and the other powerhouses. Difference is that this year, they will all beat you like a drum, not just USC.

Sucks to be a Domer, doesn't it?

sucks to be everyone else if they don't lose against the cremepuffs, because if they look slightly competitive in one of these games (let alone win one) all offseason will be spent discussing how Weis will return them to glory thanks to all of the experience they were able to get while having their asses beat this year and how smart Weis was for getting all the young guys playing time for a run next year (ect. ect.)...

[MililaniBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Steve19

I guess the simple point is this. We now play the heart of that #2 SOS that you are crowing about. For you, it is a tough schedule, yet the whole world is telling us that the Big Ten ain't diddle.

No sense talking to ostriches or chimps...they'll either put their heads in the sand (if it ain't already up their asses), or they'll throw [censored] at you (both literally and figuratively).

We will indeed be playing the same Michigan State, Penn State, and Michigan teams to whom ND lost by a cumulative score of 100-24 (along with our already having pounded the same Purdue team that beat ND by two TDs), but ND fans will claim that any such comparison is invalid because they were starting QBs that didn't start last year, while on the other hand we are...uh, wait a minute...

[BrutusBobcat]

This season isn't complete until the service academies follow the B10 lead and have a clean sweep over NoD.

Go Middies, go Cadets and go Falcons!

[DaytonBuck]

I ventured over to the Notre Dame boards for the first time in a while tonight. Posters on IrishEyes were claiming notre lame doesn't redshirt players and that a "5th year" player would have to be enrolled in graduate school. Any truth to this?

So is it common for these DBags to fall back on the fact their school is the Harvard of the midwest with a true commitment to student athletes unlike the evil football factories of the world when their team blows?

[DaddyBigBucks]

Originally Posted by DaytonBuck

I ventured over to the Notre Dame boards for the first time in a while tonight. Posters on IrishEyes were claiming notre lame doesn't redshirt players and that a "5th year" player would have to be enrolled in graduate school. Any truth to this?

So is it common for these DBags to fall back on the fact their school is the Harvard of the midwest with a true commitment to student athletes unlike the evil football factories of the world when their team blows?

Whether or not a player is enrolled in graduate school has absolutely nothing to do with redshirts.

If a player does not take a redshirt, he is not around in the 5th year. A 5th year "player" who did not redshirt is not a player; he's a former player.

Yes, 5th year former players are typically in grad school at ND. But that's because they aren't NFL (or real world) capable.