Right now the Irish defense is a mess. A 104th placed mess that is giving up a whopping 419 yards per game and 6.3 yards per play. Making those stats even worse is the fact that Notre Dame’s offense has been very good, including a Top-15 rating in total time of possession. Basically, the Irish are reaching historically bad levels of defensive ineptitude during this otherwise promising season, which is pretty mind-boggling when you think of the returning starters and skilled players on the ND defense.
Want a reason why Notre Dame’s defense is ranked so low? Exhibit A is their woeful performance against the Trojans. Notre Dame gave up 10 explosive plays, a staggering amount of big plays that help explain how the Irish defense gave up 501 total yards even as they clamped down for much of the 4th quarter.
Our video wizards took some time and cut up the passing plays, and I wanted to see if we could find out what exactly is ailing the Irish pass defense.
Play #1
Tight end Anthony McCoy absolutely shredded the Irish defense for just over 30 yards per grab with 153 yards on only five catches. The Trojan offense did a nice job motioning McCoy out to the slot, but it looked as if he merely ran straight down the seam and was left wide open, with Darrin Walls lagging behind and Harrison Smith late to get to his deep half. (I don’t know if the Irish were in a Cover-2, but I’m assuming they were.)
Play #2
Another Barkley pass that looked way to easy. From the feed we got, it looks like a classic combination route, where the outside receiver runs a curl and the inside receiver runs a flag over the top of him. Barkley didn’t even make a great throw, forcing a wide open Damian Williams to dive for a ball that neither Gary Gray nor Kyle McCarthy was even close to getting.
Play #3
This put a cap on the most efficient of the Trojan drives when Barkley found Williams again for an easy touchdown. Again, an incredibly easy throw for a quarterback, and Gary Gray let Williams turn him around, attacking his outside shoulder before turning into the post. Harrison Smith was really late getting to this ball… a troubling dilemma to have with your free safety. Needless to say, Smith’s transition back to the secondary hasn’t been smooth.
Play #4
One of the more impressive throws that Barkley made all day. He threaded a tough throw between three defenders, converting a huge 3rd-and-long for 17 yards and a first down from deep inside Trojan territory. While the secondary has certainly deserved its share of criticism, the pass rush was nonexistent and Barkley had all day in the pocket to make a play.
Play #5
The definition of getting burned on a blitz. Credit USC for a perfect play call. With trips to the top of the screen, Sergio Brown came off the corner, Kyle McCarthy took himself out of the play by taking a bad route to the play, and Harrison Smith missed a critical tackle by not using the sideline to his advantage while Darrin Walls got stalk blocked for about 20 yards. Just a perfect play by the Trojans and a great example of how not to tackle in the open field by the Irish. Notre Dame has to know that they’ve been incredibly susceptible against the wide receiver screen game.
Play #6
An absolute killer. How the Irish allow McCoy a free release from the line of scrimmage on a 3rd-and-short play is beyond me. That’s short-yardage defense 101. Kyle McCarthy also got caught looking in the backfield, not keying on the guard pass-blocking, but buying Barkley’s play-action fake before dumping the throw off to McCoy just before getting hit. While this might not have actually been Harrison Smith’s fault, he didn’t do himself any favors by getting rodeo’ed for an extra 15 yards while he tried to punch the ball out, then held on for dear life why McCoy rumbled down the field.
Play #7
Almost a mirror image of play 2. Barkley actually had to wait for the flag, something he could afford to do with the great protection he was getting all day. Once again, this is pretty simple stuff — a combination route — that beats the man coverage. This looked like a read that was elementary, if you look at Kyle McCarthy, he’s down in the box because there’s no one for him to cover, yet the secondary still gets beat on a two-man route.
Play #8
A great play designed to catch the Irish over-playing the screen pass. With trips wide right, the Trojans show the quick throw to the wide-man, and two of the three cover men jump that route, leaving McCoy wide open on a easy throw on the slant. Making matters worse, is the mediocre tackling, allowing McCoy to get an extra ten yards before being chased down.
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While we don’t have access to the play calls (or goal-line angles that could help us diagnose things better), it’s clear that communication and general IQ is just as big a problem as a lack of pass rush and poor tackling. It’s not as if these were exotic plays. The Irish have seen formations and schemes like this in their previous game, although not with skill players like Damian Williams and Anthony McCoy.
If the Irish want to run the table — a realistic goal with just a modest defensive improvement — they need to get down to the basics, and figure out a way to cut down on the huge defensive miscues.
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- Stew - Oct 21, 2009 at 8:45 AM
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Hey GA Tech, I spoke with Coach Weis he said yall are more than welcome to have John Tenuta back. I have never seen such a regression on one side of the ball with so many starters returning! In the players’ defense, switching from a 4-3, to a 3-4 and now back to a 4-3 has obviously not been a smooth transition.
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- Zach - Oct 21, 2009 at 2:38 PM
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On play 6 our beloved KMac just lazily trails the play and watches Harrison rodeo McCoy. Seriously McCarthy what the Hell are you watching go hit somebody!
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- tom - Oct 21, 2009 at 3:53 PM
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Ouch….
Something needs to change. I may know less then the average bear, but I know when player personnel are not put in the right situations. A gambling aggressive defense will get beat some of the time but not this often.
Switch to cover 1 with press coverage. Use five down lineman. At least there might be a hope of controlling the line a scrimmage.
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- Frank Maurovich - Oct 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM
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Weird situation. ND not beaten by long passes but long runs after short passes.
The CBs can’t cover the short sideline pass. No wonder the opposition keeps calling it. Of course, using the blitz package on virtually every down does not help coverage when the blitz does not work. Opposition seems to be key its passes depending on the blitz. Save the blitz for surprise, not as an every down plan.
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- Jack Black - Oct 21, 2009 at 9:34 PM
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I have been a Notre Dame fan for over 50 years. This is the worst Notre Dame defensive team I have ever seen.
With this pathetic defense this is a 6-6 team and the end of
Charlie Weis.
The question is: Who will replace him?
What do you think of John Gruden?
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- ND sucks - Oct 22, 2009 at 1:14 AM
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Who REALLY cares about ND? They have a terribly overrated football program and yet every year people fawn all over them like they’re the best thing in collegiate sports. Win something, then we can talk.
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- presha - Oct 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM
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hey
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- john - Oct 22, 2009 at 4:03 PM
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Stew, but yet some seem to feel ND is back, too funny. Regression does not even begin to describe it baby, I believe fallen off the map is more like it! There is some serious scrambling going on inside ND coaching and it is not looking good! after seven sub standard defensive efforts they are just now starting to try and fix it, come on give me a break they got torched BY Michigan Purdue MSU Wash. SC and they are just now starting to audition some new faces, that is what fall practice and your first 2 games are for for crying out loud, not seven games in!!! Desperation pass time and when it comes to his gig I hope Chucky is way better at managing the clock then he has been at least twice this season!!!
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- Erik - Oct 22, 2009 at 4:36 PM
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I find it pathetic that you take time out of your day to come to “ND Central” with a name like “ND Sucks” just to post negative comments about ND. Do you care that much to take the time to support YOUR team or are you REALLY this pathetic??
what’s your team??
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- john - Oct 22, 2009 at 4:47 PM
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Erik:
The only way this stops, is when ND starts playing and coaching football games alot better, perhaps even winning big games may help. When your coach is trying to convince everyone from a to z that he really only needed three good shots at the endzone not four and that he was really saving his last time out for a “discussion” about if they should go for 2 or a tie does nothing for garnering respect. BTW what was there to discuss, they could not punch it in from the four with three shots, what the hell made him think a 2 point conversion would likely be a good idea? Stupid stupid stupid stupid!!!!! slam away I say ND deserves it!
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- Erik - Oct 22, 2009 at 5:23 PM
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John:
Couldn’t agree more. Charlie Weis lost my support long ago through his lack of ability to prep his team for the big game. I feel we are just starting to see a ND team that actually cares whether they win or lose. The last couple of years seemed as though the players thought they were beat before stepping on the field. If you ask me, this problem starts at the top with the head coach. He is simply not a motivator… His comment in the post-game news conference that if someone would have offered him the ball on the 4 yard line with a chance to tie or go ahead at the end of the game, he would have taken it in a heartbeat, he said…… Why not INSPIRE your team and chose your words more carefully rather than sending your team the message that even CHARLIE as the COACH thought they would be losing at the end of the game. Perhaps I’m taking this out of context or too literally, but how does that help motivate your team when you say things like that??!!
Your comment regarding the “3 good shots at the endzone” is dead on. I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard that come from his mouth. But then again, I wasn’t surprised.
Also of particular concern is player development… recruits are there, talent is there… why is the ND coaching staff unable to develop these players into the players they COULD be?
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- habs001 - Oct 23, 2009 at 1:33 AM
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watching the game here in canada as a casual fan of usa college football ..#4, #6 and #12 of notre dame have looked really overmatched in most games…they seem a bit below division 1 player quality
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- robertg - Oct 23, 2009 at 6:16 AM
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keith,
1. there was absolutely nothing wrong with the play of the notre dame secondary in the usc game or in any other 2009 game.
2. the big plays were all, set up by the dishonest pac 10 officiating crew whose services was bought and paid for by pete carroll and/or other usc boosters well in advance of this game since petey full well knew that, without sustantial assistance from dishonest officials, usc was doomed to lose, which usc actually did based what the players on the field did.
3. this does not mean that notre dame’s secondary played a perfect game since no secondary ever did or ever will.
4. however, the dishonest officials set up the big plays for usc very early in the game when thet called a completely baseless defensive pass interference penaly against notre dame’s gary gray early in the 1st quarter while allowing usc players to get away with mugging notre dame wrs and tes during the entire game.
5. warned that they would be called for defensive pass interference if they even got close to any usc wr or te, notre dame’s secondary had no choice but to back away since getting too close was going to result in a completed pass by penatly in any case with this dishonest officiating crew.
6. we have been following the officiating dishonesty of every member of that pac 10 crew for a few years, along with the conduct of their bosses and protectors, jim muldoon, dave cutaia, and former and still behind the scenes pac 10 commissioner tom hansen.
7. we know where all of the material possessions of all those involved are and we invite you to read the ncaa football officiating rule book, come out and see our game film and other evidence and spend some time with our expert witnesses.
8. if you prefer to wait for the public jury trials in the civil courts during which these con artists will have to explain every call and no call, in addition to being exposed for not even knowing the rules, we will make certain that you get notice.
9. getting members of the notre dame family point their fingers at what notre dame’s student athletes and charlie and his staff might have done better and away from the dishonest officiating are exactly the traps into which notre dame’s enemies hope that notre dame’s fans will fall and what notre dame’s enemies pay certain sportwriters and sportscasters to do.
10. we are happy to report that robby parris, whom 2 usc cbs intentionally injured so that he would not be available for notre dame’s last series will be back as a full go against boston college this saturday.
11. we are also very happy to report that dave cutaia and his associates at the pac 10 conference took the bait in responding to the game film clips that charlie sent to him asking for explanations of the officiating conduct, including film of the hits on robby parris by 2 usc cb’s and copies of the rules requiring that both usc players be ejected for such conduct, as happened with the nfl’s carolina db weseley on sunday and game film proof from every possible angle that notre dame’s te rudolph was in bounds when he caught that td pass at the end of the game, not out of bounds as called by the paid for in adance pac 10 officials.
12. cutaia’s sole response was a claim that is actually funny that the pac 10 officiating crew made only one error and that was not call;ing a 15 yard penalty against notre dame for their complete pass on the fake field goal.
13. cutaia and his asociates have been runing their dishonest officiating scam for so long and are so stupid that they do not yet comprehend that we have torn down every legal authority on which they have depended to avoid any exposure of therir backgrounds and finances and histories to the public in our public disclosure case in florida in which we forced the ncaa in the civil courts, for the 1st time in history, to disclose every single document and transcript(over 700 pages) relating to the ncaa investigation of academic cheating at florida state.
14. cutaia and his protectors at the pac 10 conference, jim muldoon and former commissioner tom hansen have committed premediated economic suicide and we will oblige them in the civil courts.
15. remember how cutaia earned his current position at the pac 10 conference. cutaia was the head official at the 2006 game at which an all pac 10 field crew and tech review crew which stole a win from oklahoma over oregon in a manner so blatant that hansen and muldoon, who had cutaia’s position at that time, were forced to apologize in public and swear to take immediate disciplinary action against the entire game crew and tech review crew.
16. their punishment of cutaia was to promote him to muldoon’s job.
17. the key problem that the pac 10 conference, as a legal entity, has right now is that, in an attempt to rid itself of the stink of corruption, the pac 10 conference hired a new commissioner larry scott, who is an honest man.
18. the conduct of the pac 10 officiating crew at the notre dame/usc game and of cutaia and his protectors muldoon and hansen give scott the ammunition he need to terminate cutaia and muldoon and every pac 10 officiating crew before the notre dame/washinton state game.
19. we will assist larry scott in taking the necessary action to put a cap on the civil liablities of the pac 10 conference.
20. if scott runs into any interference within the pac 10 conference, we are convinced that scott will resign and be very public about his reasons.
21. in the meantime, we have an acc game officiating crew and a big east tech review crew comming in for the notre dame/boston college game.
22. we did not post the contact and other information earlier because we were expecting another classic show of dishonest officiating by the all acc game and tech review crews at thursday’s north carolina/ florida state game with butch davis of north carolina putting up the payoff money, as he did during his years with miami.
23. well, we and our experts were not disappointed although, despite the numerous and blatant acts of dishonest officiating by the all acc crews, florida state beat both north carolina and the dishonest acc officials.
24. we will post the fax contact and other information on friday in plenty of time to put the appropriate individuals at the acc and the big veast conferences on notice well in advance of game time.
25. we certainly do not think that anyone at boston college would ever pay off any official. however, there are other parties out thete more than willing to make payoffs for another win stolen from notre dame to try to obtain an advantage on the recruiting trails.
26. we sure will miss your live online video feed and commentaries and so will nbc and msnbc.
27. we suggest that you watch charlie’s press conference of 10/22/2009 at und.com.
GO IRISH!!!
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- Jeremy B - Oct 23, 2009 at 10:27 AM
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robertg, are you serious? Surely that was all a joke. A officiating conspiracy? The refs didn’t cause McCoy to be open on those big plays, the defense did. The refs didn’t cause Kamara to slip on the final play nor did they cause the rain that caused Kamara to slip. The boys played hard, made the game respectable, and lost. Straight forward. If the refs were planning against ND why did they call those personal fouls that allowed ND to get back in it? If the refs were planning against ND they didn’t do a good job because the Golden Domers were one catch from a tie and maybe the win. The USC game is over, we lost. Time to prove we still belong in the national spotlight by taking it to our Catholic rivals BC. It’s time to buckle down the trenches on the front line and stop Harris from tearing up yards on the ground. It’s time to stop giving up the big plays and start making them on defense. It’s time to stop whining and start winning. It’s time to wake up the echoes.
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- Savwafair - Oct 23, 2009 at 10:46 AM
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With Charlies background of breaking down the best defensive sceams in the NFL with 4 Superbowl rings as an offensive mastermind,with that in mind, one would think our defense would not be so pitifull.Someone explain this to me. Its painfull to watch this again. Why are we so lost. I agree the defense problems should have been addressed long ago.
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- Jeremy B - Oct 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM
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CW does not call the defense. Now why Tenuta had one of the top defenses in the country at Ga. Tech but is horrible now? That is the question. The blitzes have been half-arsed if you ask me and at bad times. Hopefully something will be figured out soon.
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- gregizzo - Oct 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM
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Sorry this team is not 6-6 at the end of year the offense can out score every one else on the schedule. Gruden wouldn’t be an improvement considering he has zero college football experince and he is known for offense not defense he would be another Charlie.
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- TODD DELORE - Oct 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM
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Our defense may be ranked 104th and yes our offense has been good but to hang this season on our defense is wrong. Had the offense scored more points in any of the other games instead of field goals or lost possesions the defense could have played looser. My God the goal line stands they had against Washington showed the true grit of the team. The best defense is a good offense and if ours gets a little better and starts putting away teams when they have the chance the whole scheme of things would be un-defeated.
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- robertg - Oct 24, 2009 at 12:24 AM
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1. for anyone who does not think that we are very serious and have all the evidence to back up what we post in very public jury trials all over the us and to put crooked college sports enterprises out of business forever and relieve every individual and entity involved of all or most of their material possessions , take a look at the articles and other materials available on the internet setting for what we did to every individual and entity involved in the enron and mci worldcom in our civil rico actions( not to be confused with the criminal actions which the us department of justice later brought.as taxpayers, we are opposed to putting white collar criminals in any prisons, where we get stuck paying for their room,board, medical, and other expenses. however, the us department of justice makes its own decision in such matters, over which we have zero influence.)
2. anyone who wants to pay the price can print out copies of the complaints and other court documents on file in those cases, including the order of the us district judge in the enron civil rico cases approving the payment of over $690 million in attorneys’ fees and costs to us at the pacer website and at the lexis/nexis website.
3. in each of those cases, we initally got the same you cannot be serious feedback from some of the individuals entities involved, including some of the larget and most powerful banks, investment banking firms, law firms, and accounting firms in the world.
4. having done so many cases like these over many years, there are patterns that appear in every such case. some individuals and entities settle before any complaint are filled in any court. others settle after the complainst are filed, but before trial with the settlement prices going up the longer they hold out. a few actually proceed to trial and always lose big time in very public jury trials. among those holdouts were ken lay of enron,bernie ebbers of mci worldcom and an accounting that was formerly one of the largest in the world, but is now out of busineses, with every partner also losing the bulk of his or her material possessions.
5. with the exception of real members of the notre dame community and recruits and their familes who might otherwise become victims of lies told to them by predator coaches, such as pete carroll, and by completely fraududent information intentionally put out by certain media outlets on the take from petey and other enemies of notre dame, including eric hansen, al lesar, bob wieneke, and a few others who currently, on the surface only, the south bend tribune, we really do not care what anyone else thinks or posts.they can find out in the civil courts, except for those who are wise enough to settle before lawsuits are filed and served.
6. keith was obviouly misled by certain people when he wrote this current article and obviously does not have the information or experience necessary to make any judgmement calls about charlie or his staff or about the performance or development of any notre dame student athlete.
7. since we have every reason to believe that keith arnold is a good and honest man who really loves notre dame, but has been victimized by false information fed to him by other people, we have extended to keith an open invitation to contact us and to meet with our expert winesses and see the evidence in person.
8. we have extended open invitations to others who have actually taken us up on the invitations, seen the evidence, spoken with our experts, and left enlightened.
9. after all, we knew nothing about college football officiating or about the business of college sports when we 1st got extremely angry watching another dishonest pac 10 officiating crew steal another win by notre dame over usc in 2005.
10. fortunately, we have had the time, the financial resources, and lots of experience in the civil courts all over the us to accumate the knowledge and the evidence required to put crooked college sports enterprise out of business forever.
GO IRISH!!!
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- robertg - Oct 24, 2009 at 7:34 AM
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1. for the notre dame/boston college game, we have zero evidence that anyone connected with boston college or notre dame would ever even consider making any payoff to any dishonest official. both notre dame and boston college have high academic and character standards and play college football with honesty and integrity and with teams composed of real student athletes.
2. however, with the acc conference providing the game officiating crew, there are ample reasons in the recent empirical data to be concerned that dishonest acc officials could and would engage in acts of dishonest officiating to through a win in the direction of boston college both because acc officials have always had a natural tendency to favor teams which are members of the acc over non acc opponents and because there is substantial recent evidence from thursday’s 10/22/2009 florida state very close win over north carolina( coached by the notorious butch davis of miami infamy) that florida state had to beat both north carolina and all acc crews of game officials and tech review officials. the entire game is available for replay on the internet at espn 360, along from some fasscintating commentary and replay views by an espn crew who usually try to hide dishonest officiating in the tv feeds and in their commentaries.
3. who would not hesitate to offer payoffs to the all acc crew? based on their past histories of misconduct, pete carroll and various usc boosters, butch davis and various unc boosters and boosters of various other schools(often without any knowledge of the coaching staffs) that are engaged in recruiting battles with notre dame would make payoffs to acc officials for a notre dame loss.
4. we know bupkis about the backgrounds and finances of any official who will be at saturday’s game and will not even know their names(assuming that they are not using fake names) until after the game is over and the names are printed in the full box scores at the athletic siotes of each team..
5. no conference will disclose anything at all until we hit each of them with disclosure lawsuits like the one that forced the ncaa to throw in the towel on 10/15/2009 and disclose to the public over 700 pages of documents and trasncripts relating to the ncaa investigation of academic fraud in the florida state athletic department in a case in which bobby bowden self reported the violations as soon as he discovered them, fully cooperated with the ncaa investigators, instead of playing coverup games as pete carroll and the usc athletic department do as a matter of course, and refused to take any of the payoff lures which are always on the table during ncaa investigations.
6. for the acc conference, the fax number is 13363166097 and the cover sheets should read IMMEDIATE ATTENTION AND ACTION REQUIRED: COMMISSIONER JOHN SWOFFORD,FOOTBALL OFFICIALS COORDINATOR,DOUG RHOADES, AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,FOOTBALL OPERATIONS, ALLISON DOUGHTY.
7. we have many examples of game film evidence from many games in which acc officiating and/or tech review crews have engaged in dishonest conduct.
8. however, the most recent examples, which are quite obvious from the tv feed and espn commentary and replays in the college football replay section of the 10/22/2009 florida state/north carolina game in which florida state actually defeated both north carolina and all acc game officials and an acc tech review crew who did everything in their power to dishearten and defeat a florida state team whose head coach has been under seige by the media and by some badly informed members of the florida state community for a series of losses due to youth and inexperience, along with heavy doses of dishonest officiating in favor of their opponents.
9. if the situations in which coach bobby bowden and florida state find themselves this season sound familiar, then welcome to the worlds that charlie weis and his staff and their families and notre dame’s student athletes have been living in ever since charlie took over at notre dame in 2005, except that the doses of blatantly dishonest officiating in favor of notre dame’s opponents and the vicious attacks in certain media, including the south bend tribune, have been much more vicious in the cases of charlie and his staff and their families and notre dame’s student athletes and their families.
10. what can any notre dame fan really state in any such fax.
11. well, since only a few have seen our evidence and spoken with our experts, we would suggest the following would have the best shot” i am informed that acts of dishonest officiating have occurred which alegedly involve acc officiating and tech review crews, against whom the acc has yet to announce any action. if the evidence confinces me that and act of dishonest officiating(defined to mean actions which have no basis in the rules and on the field) by the acc officials at the notre dame/boston college game which favors either boston college or notre dame, i will cooperate in appropriate civil actions in the courts to compel full disclosurte of all documents and other evidence and civil damages. what do we expect that you will do before gametime at 3:30 pm edt on 10/24/2009? we expect that you will contact each game official by telephone and in writing to pass this warning on to them. the world has changed. secrecy and hiding behind closed doors are simply not an option any more because of the 10/15/2009 surrender of the ncaa in the florida state public disclosure action forcing the ncaa to make public all documents and trascripts and other brercords relating to the ncaa investigation of academic fraud at florida state. materials relating to that case are available on the internet. i undertstand that some attorneys will be taking the depositions of each of you and of each acc game and tech review official. i also understand that yopu will be required to produce evidence of these verbal and written conmmunications at those depositions. i have every expectation that you will take the correct actions immediately.”
12. obviously, our warnings had zero influence on the pac 10 officiating crew at the notre dame/usc game.
13. however, dishonesty is much more deeply entrenched in the pac 10 conference with cutaia and mulddon than in the acc conference AND THE NEWS OF OUR BIG WIN IN COURT OVER THE NCAA ON 10/15/2009 HAD NOT REALLY HAD SUFFICIENT TIME TO SEEP IN AS IT HAS NOW.
14. anyone who wishes is welcome to attach copies of our posts without adopting anything that we have posted as the truth.
15. we look foward to an honestly officiated real college football game in which the outcome is actually determined by the players on the field.
GO IRISH!!!
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- robertg - Oct 24, 2009 at 8:18 AM
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1.for the big east conference, which will again be providing the tech review crew, the fax number is 14012745967, and the key incidents of dishonest officiating in games in which big east conference game officials or tech review crews have been involved with the promised disciplinary action not taken occurred(although there are many other examples) in the 10/19/2007 louisville/connecticut game with head big east game official being randy smith.
2. despite the public promises that immediate disciplinary action would be taken against randy smith and his entire game officiating and tech review crews by former big east commissioner michael tranghese and then big east associate commissioner john marinatto, the same randy smith showed up as the head big east game official at the infamous 2008 notre dame/north carolina game in which numerous acts of dishonest officiating by smith and his big east game crew and an all acc tech review crew played a key and outcome determining role in a close notre dame paper loss to north carolina.
3.the fax cover sheets should be IMMEDIATE ATTENTION AND ACTION REQUIRED:COMMISSIONER JOHN MARINATTO,ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER(FOOTBALL)NICK CARPARELLI. AND COORDINATOR OF FOOTBALL OFFICIATING,TERY MCCAULEY.
4. we see no reason to do anything other than modify the cover page language faxed to the acc conference and fax along copies of the faxes to the acc conference and of our posts without adopting any statement we have posted as true.
5. after all, we will be meeting personally weith each conference official and game and tech review official before any lawsuits are filed and after that point at their depositions if any of them resist out of court settlements.
6. having done all that we can do right now to maximize the chances of seeing an honestly officiated real college football game which notre dame may win or lose.
GO IRISH!!!
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- Larry - Oct 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM
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You must be a terribly miserable person . Try therapy, what have you got to lose !
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- JLD - Oct 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM
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robertg the black helicopters are after you. Seriously, stop using meth and your paranoia will subside in 30-60 days. You are not an attorney and are not fooling anyone on these posts, just boring us with the same nonsense over and over again. Please give us a break.
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- bill polaha - Oct 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM
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i’m a ND fan from way back. we must have btrhev worse secondary in the country. i’m 78 and i bet thet couldn’t cover me. BC has 4th and 17 and they make a furst down. that is a shame. 2,31 22 4 could never play 4 me. don’t b lame it all on the line either. this BC game was nothing 2 brag about
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- background check - Dec 8, 2009 at 11:49 AM
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