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What Should The Yearly Expectations Be For ND Football?

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What is good enough for Notre Dame? I was a child of the Lou Holtz years, when Notre Dame was in the hunt for a national title almost every season. That has not been the case at any point since Holtz left. In this article, I'm going to look at some of the stated "hurdles" and determine if they're relevant. Then, I'm going to answer: What is a reasonable expectation for Notre Dame football on an annual basis? Schedule “We won nine games two years out of the five. I think the difficulty is ...

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Urban Meyer Better Than Brian Kelly In Most Ways

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This entry is part of Her Loyal Sons' continuing Fiesta Bowl preview series: Defensive preview, Ezekiel Elliott accident, Costume Gameday, offensive preview, Injured Irish returning, comprehensive bowl overview. Today, we examine the coaches. By almost all metrics, Ohio State's Urban Meyer has had a more successful career recently than Notre Dame's Brian Kelly. Let's compare: HEAD-TO-HEAD (ON THE FIELD) Kelly and Meyer have never faced each other. The pair were on a collision course ...

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Good Fridays w/Padre: Bad Ideas

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Like the icicle that starts to form at the corner of the roof, it slowly grows until it’s a heavy, sharp, pointed thing that will impale you without warning.  It was fascinating to behold at one time, but it became a lethal sculpture that plunged through the window and left your room cold and wet.  This icicle is a metaphor for a Very Bad Idea, and many of them are forming at this time of year. Not surprising that an athletic conference, the source and summit of bad ideas, is the water ...

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Davidson College Ranks Ahead of The Irish: GSR or a Sick Rick Reilly Fantasy?

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I can't do anything about Lo Wood's Achilles, but I can do something about the Janus Bifrons of anti-journalism that is ColinReilly a/k/a RickCowherd. Now, I don't need to go after these dopes on their lazy opinions. Twibby did that already. I'm going to go after their underlying fiction as it pertains to "student-athletics" because I refuse to throw up my hands and acquiesce to the notion that college football is just one big academic fraud (Cowherd) or that Notre Dame needs to be taken down ...

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