Archive for November, 2007

Is the Horse Dead Yet? Yeah? Okay, I’ll Keep Beating It

I looooove talking about how young this team was this year.  Well, I don’t really love it, I love that it’s in the PAST.  But, new data keeps coming up that I find pretty interesting.  So I share.  I’m a sharer.  And a dead-horse-beater.
 
Take that you freaking dead horse!
Much like my Soap Opera Post, this [...]

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Pac-10 Officials Are Dumb, Liars

Not that the headline is telling you anything that you, as a rabid ND fan, didn’t already know. But the Pac-10 is backing up the decision to reverse the correct call on the field from Saturday’s Stanford/Notre Dame game which said that this catch was a completion for a touchdown. The correct call, [...]

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What The Heck is Miami’s Problem?

Given the fact that Donna Shala is still employed as president of the University of Miami, I suppose I shouldn’t be completely shocked by the news/rumor that Randy Shannon, the head coach of the Miami Football program, who was ostensibly expected to help clean up the program just as much as improve their win-loss record, [...]

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The Young and the Restless

 
How many ND blogs have used a soap opera as a metaphor for analysis?  None? Just us?  We are the first!  We rule. (or, maybe, we like “Daytime Dramas”. either one)
As has been much discussed, ND was a young team this year.  Some claimed ‘oh, but other teams are young, blah blah blah’.  I can [...]

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Thanksgiving Play by Play

I was stuck at a family event the night of the Stanford game, and missed the entire second half. Given that I’d be away from Sunny California for 4 days at that point, I didn’t have a chance to get the Tivo programmed.  Plus, I just wasn’t going to wait until Sunday to know the [...]

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Profiles in Assistance

With the coaching changes, there are some interesting assistant coaches floating around right now:

Brian Jean-Mary: Former Linebacker coach for Georgia Tech. Who’s watched a GaTech game recently and didn’t like the play of the LBs?
Joe D’Alessandris: Former OL coach for Georgia Tech. They managed the 16th ranked rushing attack in the NCAA [...]

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Michigan (sucks!) Not Really Serious About Football Anymore

Perhaps it’s just that they got sick of trying to beat Ohio State and Jim Tressel, or that they’ve realized they can’t beat Notre Dame and Charlie Weis at recruiting even when ND goes 3-9, but the recent and rampant rumors about Michigan (sucks!) Head Coaching search seem to indicate they no longer take football [...]

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Fun Schadenfreude Fact of the Day

Charlie Weis and Notre Dame have won and will win as many games against Pac-10 teams in 2007 as Ty Willingham and Washington (2 wins each).
Bonus Fun Schadenfreude Fact of the Day:  Weis has won just as many games against Pac-10 opponents as Ty Willingham since Weis has been at ND and Willingham has been [...]

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