Comments on: Well, Thank God That’s Over

By: The Biscuit

The Biscuit — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:02:18 +0000

Exactly Trey – totally with you. I am still in Charlie’s corner. I think he’s an excellent coach that called a really horrid game. Coaches make mistakes and I’m hoping Charlie learns from this, and the whole season. Given his success in the first 2 years and his recruiting success, I think he’ll take us where we need to go. Just not yet.

By: Trey

Trey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:13:49 +0000

Im with Biscuit on this one. I’ve been a CW apologist for a long time and I’m still in his corner, but this game was the epitome of idiotic coaching. This is what most people expected out of Weis coming from the Pats his first year; not totally understand the nuances of collegiate football, trying to pull pro tricks, etc. The no-kick decision was at the apex of the growing body of stupid decisions this year. Think about it, you try the FG and miss it, Navy takes the ball over with 15 secs or so on their 24. They couldnt pick up 10 yards in 15 seconds, much less 76. So you go to OT anyway if you miss. However if you MAKE it, game is over and you win. It was a no-loss risk and he decided to go for the big money play for no reason.

By: domer.mq

domer.mq — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:41:05 +0000

Timugen,

If Navy was able to do what they do to everyone else (and frankly, ND should be much better than anyone else on their record up to this point), then ND didn’t do a good job on D. ND allowed Navy to eat way too much clock.

This loss was a complete team effort.

By: Timugen

Timugen — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:28:23 +0000

“Update 2: I keep forgetting that of the 28 points ND gave up, only 21 of them were given up by the D, so good for them, but they still didn’t do themselves or their team any favors by letting Navy hold onto the ball for so long and so often until late in the game. So I strike my comments about the D giving up 28 points to Navy. I still maintain that Navy was able to hold onto the ball way too long.”

Navy does that to every team they play. Our D held Navy below their season avgs on both rushing yards and points. Our D did better against Navy that almost any other team they have played this year.

By: domer.mq

domer.mq — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:31:21 +0000

I’m all for playing to win. I’m just not mad about a few calls. I’m mad it came to that. Had ND won in OT, I’d still be mad. Had ND won with a FG in the last moments of regulation, I’d be mad. If ND doesn’t win by 14 over Navy, I’m mad.

By: john reich

john reich — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:01:43 +0000

ok i totally disagree with you… play to win! kick the field goal at the end of the game… god give the kid a chance. and i never wanted to see that record snapped!! i wanted to cry once ND lost…

By: Irish_Wertzy

Irish_Wertzy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:46:32 +0000

My only thought is: I’m glad it happened this year, vice a year when we actually had something more on the line. If we were 8-0 and lost to Navy, then I would be more upset.

Once we got into OT, I knew we were done. I didn’t think there was anyway we could stop them getting to the endzone, let alone on the two point conversions.

Oh, and Sharpley missed a wide open John Carlson behind Parris on the play that they called “PI” on.

I’m done. I will cheer them every game, and be just as mad when we lose. I will be at Duke, and I will stay until the alma mater is done, win or lose. I will not have blind faith in CW. I do have faith that there will be some additional changes, and if ND is not better next year (8-10 wins) than CW will have some splainin to do.

By: The Biscuit

The Biscuit — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:08:57 +0000

As you can tell by my post below, I don’t really agree. The crux of your post is that ‘we should be a lot better than we are, so Charlie’s weird calls shouldnt have been so important’. But the fact is that we’re not much better than we are. We are a struggling squad that needs everything it can get in terms of confidence-building and growth. And that means a W against Navy. And Charlie made several weird/bad/horrid calls throughout the day (Thomas as the ‘goal line’ guy is one of them) that didn’t give those kids what they needed. Yes, I agree that we shouldnt be in a position where a few bad coaching decisions can cost us a game against Navy. But that’s the team we have, and Charlie should be making calls that give this team the best chance to win, which he didn’t do.