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Irish Round Table » Blog Archive » Learn to Compete — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:10:40 +0000

[...] is so much in this post on Her Loyal Sons that I agree with. First, the part where domer.mq is a geek. But more where mq talks about [...]

By: The Biscuit

The Biscuit — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:31:36 +0000

tjak rules. that’s what i’m saying. no one is helped by futile and mindless rants about firing CW. it’s not happening this year people. sorry. if ‘09 sucks, then yes. but he did too much good in the first two years and in recruiting. up and down and up and down is the way of a young squad. if you hate it? fine. stew in silence. but enough bashing – that’s not the ND way. we love this team and we support it. and if they do down, we go down with them! i’m so sick of the entitled ‘we want winning now’ mentality of fans (including, but not limited to, ND). this program was on the path to shambles when CW was hired. guess what? he couldn’t stop that train. but with recruiting and staff, he’s slowly (yes SLOWLY) turning things around. but a little patience is needed. just a LITTLE. ONE SEASON. bash away next season if we’re not rolling over the UNCs and BCs of the schedule.

By: tjak

tjak — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:35:30 +0000

I have waited a few days before I responded to the biscuit and have read all the comments that have followed. First off, You are not paid millions to do a blog, and Weis is paid millions to coach football; so the expectations of him are slightly higher. Second, your blog is the homer, pro-Irish, tonic that I find awesome. HLS is excellent at what it does. Third, I agree that Weis is not going anywhere until at least after the 2009 season, so stay on the bandwagon or get the heck off. Irish Football is huge to my family and none of us ever went to the school. Our family actually follows all sports and are proud that we blew bc out in hockey, that the men’s b-ball are ranked in the top ten and that women’s soccer is still undefeated amongst many things to be proud of. But with Notre Dame it always comes back to football. If you say you are a fan of the team then damn well support it. If it means toning down yourself as fan during struggles, then do what you have to do to cope. But if you are a fan of the Irish, do not give up on this team, it serves no useful purpose.

By: san diego irish

san diego irish — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:49:26 +0000

Glad to hear the Biscuit providing some positive vibes. When I’m feeling optimistic about this team, I agree with your slow but inevitable progression to greatness theory. I definitely see the growth and this team is still really young. But according to someone (Carol in the SBT I think) ND is 1-14 against ranked opponents under Weis. And that includes the two Brady Quinn years. I also read that the ‘89 ND team didn’t have many seniors either (again, haven’t verified that this is true). Those kind of stats depress me.

I keep telling myself that Weis’ offense will not be able to hit on all cylinders until Clausen has the maturity to run it properly. As long as ND struggles to run the ball, teams will sit back in two deep coverage, force ND to throw short passes, and wait for penalties or Clausen miscues to kill drives. That’s the blueprint for stopping ND right now and any team with a good D line can easily implement this approach. It’s no secret that all the teams ND has lost to have been able to stuff the run without bringing up the safeties. Those who couldn’t have gotten torched by Jimmy, Floyd, Tate, et al. There is a lot of pressure on Jimmy to carry the team right now. But that won’t change until ND figures out a way to run the ball.

By: DeepTeaKup

DeepTeaKup — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:29:41 +0000

Wow, hard to believe domer has reached this point. I’ve seen angry/petulant/happy/sad/apopoletic domer, I’m not sure what this one is? Whatever it is, not sure if I like it. You guys run a decent (for ND) blog, would hate to see this deteriorate into a Biscuit-DTK discussion about how much or little UM sucks or whether or not Biscuit is blind in his man love for CW.

By: The Biscuit

The Biscuit — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:14:46 +0000

BK, you love the MM. It’s your crack, you know it. (I mean, other than the actual crack you smoke, of course).

By: Bad Kermit

Bad Kermit — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:08:53 +0000

Biscuit, unless you can put your thoughts into simple graph form, I’m not interested.

By: Adam Nettina

Adam Nettina — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:55:13 +0000

“Navy will be a route and Clausen will have a great game.”

Thats kind of what I was talking about…

By: solo076

solo076 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:31:40 +0000

Time is a healer of all things and with the program it is nothing different. Charlie has gone from the pros to the most storied program of all time. Charlie, Corwin and the rest of the staff get it. It is just going to take time for them to adjust. Charlie can and will get it done. He is smart. Our problem is we have had mediocrity for so long were sick of it. Part of that is we as fans are also smart enough to see how good we have the potential to be and the other part is 88 was long ago. Navy will be a route and Clausen will have a great game. I do have one serious question though who is the leader of this team?

By: Adam Nettina

Adam Nettina — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:33:01 +0000

No doubt this is a much better ND team. I’ve watched it week to week (closet fan) and have seen the improvement. Likewise, I can tell you the 6-3 Navy team it will be up against this week has had some lucky breaks (Temple). That being said, when I look at next week’s game I see a team which knows how to win (Navy) and a team which does not (ND). I’ve been surprised by the mindset of ND fans over the past year. Do many really believe, after winning in South Bend last year, that this Navy team is just gonna roll over and say “oh well, we got our historic win now let’s slide back into mediocrity…”

Trust me. I work with these young men on a week to week basis. Even with Bryant or Dobbs at QB this will be a competitive game, especially if ND commits turnovers (which they’ve had a propensity to do as of late.)