Comments on: Is Notre Dame’s 2013 Schedule The Nation’s Hardest? https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/ A Notre Dame Football Blog Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:17:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 By: HURLS https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249386 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:17:49 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249386 Gentlemen…It’s April. Barely. Injuries will happen. Players will be dumb and break rules as well as bones. Even players will rise from nowhere. As the expression goes: “stuff happens.” (PG-version) Making predictions at this point of time is ridiculous. 12-1, again. OK, I’m ridiculous…ly PRO-IRISH! GO IRISH – BEAT WOLVERINAS.

]]> By: Terry https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249383 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:03:53 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249383 I can easily imagine how some of you youngsters can occasionally get annoyed by stories or reminiscences by some of us old farts, but – we’re part of this too.

To some of you Ara is just a legend, to us he is a memory.

To some of you Moose Krause is just a legend, to us he is a memory – he was the last real connection between Knute Rockne and the present.

This ‘Notre Dame’ goes back way beyond the memories of the oldest of us.

You young whipper-snappers are just the latest chapter of this ongoing story.

Remember that, honor it, think about it, welcome the newest arrivals and when you get to be old farts – remember your predecessors. When you watch a home game on TV remember that “I SAT THERE WHEN WE SANG THE ALMA MATER”.

The next chapter is coming

]]> By: trey https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249380 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:41:30 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249380 In reply to Gmoney321.

OK is also losing it’s 4-year starting QB this season and ND is monumentally better than it was last October when the game was played. Can you count on ND not being more in control this time around?

]]> By: trey https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249379 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:39:34 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249379 In reply to canuck75.

BLASPHEMY, sir! I dislike you now, 😉

]]> By: Terry https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249376 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:03:40 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249376 Gmoney – you reminded me of a story from back then. In the fall of 1969 Notre Dame announced that it was dropping its 43 year policy of no bowls after the football season. The Chicago Tribune sent a sports reporter to the campus to do a story on student reaction to this momentous news. One of the pictures taken – and published throughout the country – was one of a student looking at the headline and he was wearing American flag pants.

Reaction was immediate and ardent – about 98% against the guy.

]]> By: canuck75 https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249375 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:44:11 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249375 Great to talk some football. I am not a baseball fan so really hate the nonstop baseball highlights that run from now till Oct.
Grantland, your main point is 100% right on. Its not your toughest games, but the second tier games against good opponents, like BYU, Pitt, Arizona State.
I watched Pitt absolutely crush Va Tech last year, then play great against us, then crush Rutgers. They were a very good team with consistency problems, not a mediocre team that “exposed” us.
Independently, we need to take another step and pound Michigan or USC, not just win nicely.
Can’t wait.

]]> By: Gmoney321 https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249362 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:05:18 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249362 Playing in a bowl game isn’t a measure of strength of schedule. If the bowl structure was set up like it was in 1969 when Notre Dame returned to the bowl scene it would be a different story. As of now, I’ll say the window is open between 7-5 and 12-0. Last year’s team dominated Oklahoma who was one dimensional and struggled in 5 games. Can you count on the opposing coaches making the same mistakes again?

]]> By: starkruzr https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249361 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:30:39 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249361 This season is easier than last, but not by much.

I also think 11-1, we drop one to Oklahoma at home this time.

]]> By: Terry https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249360 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:33:45 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249360 I say 11-1 – Stanford.

Possibly 10-2 – Michigan.

There’s a lot of tough teams that we have to play, and there are 12 teams with a touch team on their schedule – Notre Dame. We’re back. I think we’ll be in the top 5 next season.

]]> By: trey https://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/2013/04/02/is-notre-dames-2013-schedule-the-nations-hardest/#comment-249353 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:41:27 +0000 http://www.herloyalsons.com/blog/?p=19619#comment-249353 I think after last tear, this one will be much less difficult. SC is on a negative trajectory, scUM will be decimated losing shoelaces, and the rest seems very manageable. ASU and AFA might be trap games, but not classically so. I think we can win 10 of these with certainty

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