Archive for September, 2009

Weis is a Terrible Situational Coach

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Weis is a terrible coach when it comes to calling the game from a situational basis:
4th and 10 at the 41 with your backup quarterback in the game, 99.9% of coaches would punt.  Not Charlie.  He’s too smart.
4th and 6 with the best tight end in the country.  99.9% of coaches would call a play [...]

Victory!

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

We’ll Take It

Fire It Up

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

At night.  On the road.  Against Purdue.  Brings back some nice memories:

Why Do We Do It?

Friday, September 25th, 2009

An excellent question posed by Buck Turgidson on NdNation:
Why cheer for a team? Why read about them, dissect the coach’s press conferences and study next week’s opponent? Why blather about all of this to strangers on the internet. Why get nervous about football games that, lucky t-shirts and esoteric beer drinking rituals aside, we can [...]

Biggest Story Lines This Year

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Biggest story lines for Notre Dame Football this year:
1)The Offensive Line.  Kudos to Frank Verducci for coming in and getting the Notre Dame offensive unit playing to its potential.  This has been the biggest factor and improvement in 2009.  In 2007, the offense ranked dead last 119th with 242 yards/game.  In 2008, ND moved up [...]

Where Will Walsh Hall Have Their Formal?

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Various news reports have the College Football Hall of Fame moving to Atlanta when its lease is up with the city of South Bend in 2010.
Rumors of the Hall leaving the city have been pretty steady, but newspapers in Atlanta are reporting a deal has been reached with the National Football [...]

Tate Jump

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Michigan Cheap Shot

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

This video courtesy of The Wizard of Odds:
Notre Dame center Eric Olsen is punched by Michigan’s Jonas Mouton during Saturday’s game in Ann Arbor. Keep your eye on the lower left corner. Fighting Irish coach Charlie Weis, who expressed displeasure with the refereeing after the 38-34 loss, has sent video of the incident to the [...]

More Precedent for ND to Lower Ticket Prices

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

We still can’t believe Notre Dame had the audacity to raise ticket prices over the last two seasons.  The Irish went 1-6 at home in 2007 and lost to a lowly Syracuse team in 2008.  In 2009 Notre Dame has been scrambling to sell tickets.  Here’s a recap of some of the issues surrounding home [...]

Thoughts on Michigan, Weis

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

That one hurt.  Bad.  Hats off to Michigan and Forcier for a well played game.
At first I was crushed after losing to a team I feel was not our equal. Like Weis said, they were in year two of a rebuilding cycle and ND was in year five.  One play or call here or there [...]


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