Why don't we just call up George O'Leary and get 7 years of mistakes and the one guy trying to fix it all in the same place at the same time? I don't know if I can handle Bob "let's have Jarious Jackson scramble around in the end zone, get hurt, and give up a safety rather than managing the clock in the way a COACH is supposed to" Davie calling this game. I might just lose it.
By undnut October 22, 2008 - 1:20 pm
They just announced Mark May will be handling ceremonial coinflip duties.
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By domer.mq October 22, 2008 - 1:43 pm
Man walks on moon!
Is it bad that I’m heckling my own blog?
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By Bad Kermit October 22, 2008 - 2:11 pm
Did you guys hear that we signed the Treaty of Paris?
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By domer.mq October 22, 2008 - 3:17 pm
Good ole’ Ben Franklin. I knew he’d pull it off.
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By domer.mq October 22, 2008 - 3:41 pm
In all seriousness, this will be a great opportunity for a lot of ND fans who don’t otherwise know…
Listen to Bob Davie predict the next offensive play with 99% accuracy and just try not to get too much dirt on your jaw. I just don’t understand how he does it. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen him misguess when doing color commentary on a game. No idea why he couldn’t do the same as a coach.
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By DeepTeaKup October 22, 2008 - 5:14 pm
domer, I actually think Bob Davie is a good color guy, I realize that some of you (Biscuit) have petty personal grudges for no good reason but he is good at his job.
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By The Biscuit October 22, 2008 - 5:56 pm
First of all – I wasn’t publishing this to ‘announce’ to folks that this is going on. Obviously it’s not new news. (just like Man walking on the moon MQ – classically funny! hilarious! my stomach hurts! etc!) I posted it to voice my displeasure at the whole terribleness of the thing.
BK, you get no say on this site. You only show up once a month to mock something I say. If it’s not going to be funny, you should really hold back.
DTK, you let me know how you feel when RR comes back to call UM (sucks) games for ESPN the Ocho in 3 years after running your program into the ground. Until then, you also get no say here. The other point here is that there’s a big difference between being a ‘good color guy’ in general (which I’d disagree with as well) and being a ‘good color guy’ on a game played that involves a team that the color guy used to coach and from which he got fired (and a firing from which his career never recovered). He’s clearly got a personal bias that’s just painful to hear come through in the game, and it’s maddening when a dude that f-ed up that many times makes comments on strategy/coaching/anything. Again, in 3 years when RR can’t get a HS coaching job and ends up in the booth calling a UM (sucks) game, let’s chat.
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By Bad Kermit October 22, 2008 - 6:11 pm
The 11 words I wrote up there were funnier than your last 1,000. Deal with it.
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By DeepTeaKup October 22, 2008 - 6:17 pm
Biscuit, I hear you on the strangeness of the situation, and he probably should not be calling the game. From an outsider’s perspective, the few (2 maybe?) times I’ve seen Davie call an ND game, I thought he had a slight pro-ND bias. I’ve never understood the media fascination with postitioning failed coaches as “experts” for broadcasts.
As for Davie though, he does seem to know defense and does a decent job conveying what he is seeing from a more technical point of view. But yeah, someone else should be calling this game.
As for RichRod, you’re just a hater, he is a beautiful man and a wonderful human being who will lead UM to multiple NC’s in the next decade.
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By The Biscuit October 22, 2008 - 7:11 pm
BK – just cuz you’re high right now doesn’t mean those words were funny.
DTK – you know what i’m saying. I actually don’t hate Davie. He was a decent guy that was a good DC but a mediocre head coach that knew nothing about taking walk-ons as kickers over bad schollie players. But I don’t think I’d hire a guy to comment on his ex-employer after he was fired in any setting. It just doesn’t make sense.
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By DagerOne October 22, 2008 - 8:43 pm
I’d argue that Bob Davie wasn’t a good DC. He was an outstanding DC. It was the very ability by which you’re astounded (his ability to forecast an offensive play…nay, an entire offensive series at times) that made him so good. In his defenses, linebackers were weapons. I miss those days.
He was, however, a horrible head coach.
I’ve often wondered why no one picked him up as a DC after he was dismissed from ND.
I’ve never thought of him as pro-ND or anti-ND, frankly. I thought it was funny when he’d question Weis’s time management, considering it was one of his own largest flaws…but at least he could make fun of the fact that he never beat MSU, for example.
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By The Biscuit October 23, 2008 - 12:47 am
Dager, I agree. Great DC. I don’t think Bob is blatantly anti-ND during the calls. I think it’s more of your last thought – which is that it’s maddening to hear him even comment neutrally, especially negatively, on coaching calls, plays, etc when he was sooooo bad as a HC himself. I think Bob was probably offered DC positions, but turned them down while looking for another HC position – figuring he had ‘earned’ that. But then after a while those offers dried up, and now he’s been out for a while. He’d need to accept a HC job at a small school, or a DC job at a middling program now, and I dont think his pride will allow him to do that.
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