Comments on: Pregame six pack: Hurricanes roll into Chicago

By: cpfirish

cpfirish — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:11:18 +0000

Wtf!!! Golson is suspended for his game!! And TR is starting!! Here we go.!! Wtf happen? Does anybody know the details???

By: nudeman

nudeman — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:16 +0000

Any and all Ditkas beat the Canes

By: bearcatirishfan

bearcatirishfan — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:02:07 +0000

Nude, are we talking about da miniature ditka or da full sized ditka, here.

By: tburke9601

tburke9601 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:37:36 +0000

nude, as always your incite is greatly appreciated! just really curious about what the differences are.

By: nudeman

nudeman — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:06:24 +0000

ndfaithful
“Good point. I mean the part about “could be wrong”.”

LMAO
Great line

By: nudeman

nudeman — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:04:43 +0000

Appreciate the “celebrity” shout out, but I never lumped in BYU as someone who would easily shut ND down. I have called them a trap game, but frankly I’m taking that back

Saw them vs UT State last night
Not “awful” but hardly fearsome. Although they were playing their 2nd string QB

By: nudeman

nudeman — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:58:48 +0000

heisenbyrg
Fair point about the fans also having a blind spot for TR
Here’s my reason I have so little confidence in his being able to improve:

Last year he regressed with every game; then with 3 months to sit, think about it, reflect, he came out and was awful in the B&G game.

He has Ron Powlus Syndrome. Just keeps getting worse with each game.

By: ndfaithful

ndfaithful — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:54:15 +0000

After watching the Manti interview, I’m just really impressed. He sure seems like a great young man on top of being a great football player.

After only hearing him talk and answer questions for 40 minutes, I would go to war with him.

GO IRISH!!
CRUSH Miami

By: nudeman

nudeman — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:50:31 +0000

Not only can I not explain the blocking scheme stuff, I think it’s overrated as any sort of explanation/excuse for why they’re struggling. As Mike Ditka once said (paraphrasing): “This is FOOTBALL; just knock someone on their a**”

Works for me.

Iron Mike 48
Miami 2

By: ndfaithful

ndfaithful — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:06:05 +0000

Good point. I mean the part about “could be wrong”.
I for one think you are. As the boys get better, the points will come and they’ll run the good play calls better. As they get better, the play calling will evolve because the coaches know the team. Thank God we have a strong defense while they’re getting better.

I could be wrong be wrong too. I’m glad I’m not though.

By: ndfaithful

ndfaithful — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:02:52 +0000

Great stuff!!!!

Giving me goosebumps over here…

GO IRISH!!!

By: tburke9601

tburke9601 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:51:14 +0000

Can any one explain to me what the different blocking scheme’s are? And what is the benefit of an Inside- ouside- zone over a Gap-pull scheme? Am i the only dummy that has no idea what he is talking about by this? Would love to know why this change was made, because when you had 2 running backs the could have eclipsed 1000 yrds rushing last year, one that did, why would you make a change to what we are doing this year?

By: ndfaithful

ndfaithful — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:42:22 +0000

I will add that in fairness to BK, he was reciting the record when he was 0-2 last year too. He’s kind of a no-nonsense guy in this regard. Also, there’s all these comments about what we CANNOT do. What a shame. Where’s the hope, optimism, even realism. 4-0 is good.

People would say “we can’t beat Michigan unless we score points”. We kept them out of the endzone and found a way. Now everyone is saying “there’s no way we’ll beat (future opponent) without a new coach, qb, gameplan, (insert your monday morning head coach speak here)” The truth is that it’s a team game and so far they’ve found a way and toughed ‘em out.

Look at recent history. LSU got all the way to the title game last year with a pretty lame offense. Alabama won it and while they ran the ball well last year, their defense made their offense look a lot better. Most teams would run the ball pretty well with all the possessions and against very tired defenses.

Finally, I have to give a big DITTO about Nude’s comments on bitching about play calling. Bad play calling is the weakest form of criticism in the world. I don’t see a lot of fullback dives on 3rd ant 20. I don’t see a lot of 40-yard routes on 3rd and inches. I don’t see a single loss, let alone a loss due to a controversial call. It’s really clear that some folks here just think they know the team a lot better than the coaching staff. And then the same folks pick and choose facts (and fiction) to backup their arrogance.

Somebody posted it earlier and if I could remember who, i’d give them credit. There’s an old phrase used by Lou Holtz and others that you know you’re doing something right when people are all complaining about how you’re winning.

By: yaketyyacc

yaketyyacc — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:58:12 +0000

as the analyst pointed NO team can win the national championship with defense alone, however good. and then predicted Miami over ND. and pointed out he too is 4-0 in his predictions.
teams lose by one of three ways; offenseive loss, defensive loss or coaches loss. we have gotton to 4-0. so why the worry. all I am sayig is that we are not going to go 13-0 unless we develoop a fiercesome balanced offensive attack. And I feel, could be wrong, this lack is due to the playcalling.
if the waterboy was the offensive coordinator, then I would say that the waterboy needs to call a better balanced game. but he is not. Coach Kelly is. Hey, I like the waterboy and I like Coach Kelly. What I don’t like is the playcalling,
Posters, thanks for the constructive criticism. and to that analyst who sits to the right of Lou Holtz, you too, are entitled ot your wrong prediction.

By: irishbornraised

irishbornraised — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:58:34 +0000

Or more valuable, GTFO

By: irishbornraised

irishbornraised — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:57:15 +0000

What’s the difference?

By: irishbornraised

irishbornraised — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:55:26 +0000

Heisenbyrg, the whole point we’ve made was that BQ had the physical skills and gained the mental skills, TR has the mental skills but not the physical skills. The mental part is what’s gotten him even a glance as a DI QB. BQ could learn a playbook, TR can’t learn muscles.

By: irishbornraised

irishbornraised — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:51:36 +0000

“Everyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot”
Stop, the weight of your logic is crushing me

By: irishbornraised

irishbornraised — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:45:44 +0000

This stuff about how BK didn’t expect to win big this season and saw it as a lost season that could be used to develop a QB and is now second guessing because he thinks he could make something big happen is ridiculous. He knows that if he doesn’t do well things won’t end well..

By: irishbornraised

irishbornraised — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:40:47 +0000

Love it

By: irishbornraised

irishbornraised — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:32:08 +0000

Leave it to Lou Holtz to say something that perfect.

By: papadec

papadec — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:30:48 +0000

9irish – oh yeah – oh yeah.

By: papadec

papadec — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:24:58 +0000

ndg&b – I agree with you – BYU didn’t look very impressive tonight.

By: papadec

papadec — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:22:20 +0000

Jen – AMEN!

By: papadec

papadec — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:15:12 +0000

sin – where exactly does a Marine grunt get $1,000 to bet on a football game? Oh, wait a minute – you must be in supply.

By: papadec

papadec — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:30:30 +0000

Thanks cameronx – I enjoyed it.

By: seadomer

seadomer — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 05:07:39 +0000

Here is the not so simple answer,

I caught the BYU vs Boise state and am watching them right now vs Utah state, they are playing like ND, stylistically speaking.
This Boise state is not the Kellen Moore-led squad but BYU only gave 7 points.
Also BYU allowed 10 ppg thru 5 games and if the current score hold (mid 4th)(BYU 6 – Utah state 3), technically its 53/6 which will be slightly under 9 ppg thru 6 games

Plus they are probably a bowl bound team BUT whoever they play will not have the glam of ND. If I was a BYU player, my bowl game will be on OCT 20

By: 9irish

9irish — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:51:03 +0000

Calm down, people. We’re all on the same side here (well, most of us). I don’t want an old AP/UPI ticker tape machine with just the facts on it, opinion and the perspective/angle is why I waste my time on here.

Go Irish

By: NotreDan

NotreDan — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:40:30 +0000

In all 12:38 AM clarity after a few pu
nts of wisdom… GO IRISH!!!! God speed to our boys to defeat the pretenders from flamingo land

By: NotreDan

NotreDan — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:29:01 +0000

Keith I have to agree. You dove into this mess, and you’re here trying to clean it up. Either you said too much based on information from a confidential source, or you are just provocative for no good reason. I sure don’t want to believe the latter.

When asked of this controversy in the late week Presser, Kelly’s hesitation said it all. Seems to me there is a lack of confidence in Golson. Can’t say I disagree, but, its not your place to leak it through passive language.

You are in a position of trust, you have a higher standard. Either say it or don’t, you can’t do both.