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Navy, wait, did I say Alabama, Ohio State, LSU??, nooo Navy 28, Notre Dame 27. Yagotta love it!!!
Umm... I don't.Navy, wait, did I say Alabama, Ohio State, LSU??, nooo Navy 28, Notre Dame 27. Yagotta love it!!!
Yeah but it still brings pleasure to millionsBeating ND is no big deal in football this year.
Was that Navy's men's team or their women's team??/Navy, wait, did I say Alabama, Ohio State, LSU??, nooo Navy 28, Notre Dame 27. Yagotta love it!!!
Maybe so, but they will play their @$$3$ off! And NOBODY will whine if Navy puts a 50-point whoopin' on them.And next month Army will get their annual ass whuppin'.
The ND football model is broken. They haven't been consistently strong since Ara Parseghian more than 40 years ago. (I realize Dan Devine did pretty well with a QB named Joe Montana, but it wasn't consistent excellence.)
It is shocking how quickly Michigan turned their program around, largely because of a new coach. But ND has had a revolving door of coaches of all stripes without consistent success. I have no idea what ails the Irish....
Hard to believe Uconn fan could be talking trash about football.
The ND football model is broken. They haven't been consistently strong since Ara Parseghian more than 40 years ago. (I realize Dan Devine did pretty well with a QB named Joe Montana, but it wasn't consistent excellence.)
It is shocking how quickly Michigan turned their program around, largely because of a new coach. But ND has had a revolving door of coaches of all stripes without consistent success. I have no idea what ails the Irish....
Yeah but it still brings pleasure to millions
Sorry; my mistake: you're right about Lou Holtz, of course. But I always believed that Holtz's success depended on his defensive coordinator, Barry Alvarez, who then went on to great success as head coach at Wisconsin. After Alvarez left, ND declined. But that's sort of besides the point: Holtz should get credit for recruiting Alvarez.As a ND alumnus (and father of a UCONN alumnus) I have to agree, although Lou Holtz had some pretty good years as well with Rocket Ismail. I was fortunate enough to attend during the Parseghian years. A lot has changed since then. I agree that ND gets overhyped year after year; I'll usually watch a few games, suspend my hopes, and just kick back and enjoy the games for what they are. It remains an exceptional educational institution, however, and theoretically, that's what college is really for.
Sure, why not? After all, UConn is 1-0 vs Notre Dame. From the Great Santini:Hard to believe Uconn fan could be talking trash about football.
Nasty and sweet.Navy, wait, did I say Alabama, Ohio State, LSU??, nooo Navy 28, Notre Dame 27. Yagotta love it!!!
OK, you're quite right, of course, about the exceptional nature of the institution, and, because I do truly believe that, I am currently advocating for a granddaughter to apply there. My "beef" with them is only a function of athletics, and the fact, to which you earlier alluded, that they are, on an annual basis, so unreasonably over-hyped. Sports commentators remain, in my opinion, so romanced by the Knute Rockne legend (and that of some successors) that they still rush to anoint The Irish champions of this or that before they have earned anything to merit that recognition. And, I must admit that I find ND fans generally suffer, probably on the basis of having swallowed the legend whole, from an outsized sense of entitlement. "Yes, technically we have x number of losses, but we still should be ranked in the Top Ten!" "We would've won, but the refs (always the refs) stole it from us!"As a ND alumnus (and father of a UCONN alumnus) I have to agree, although Lou Holtz had some pretty good years as well with Rocket Ismail. I was fortunate enough to attend during the Parseghian years. A lot has changed since then. I agree that ND gets overhyped year after year; I'll usually watch a few games, suspend my hopes, and just kick back and enjoy the games for what they are. It remains an exceptional educational institution, however, and theoretically, that's what college is really for.
Surprised, I expected a setback after Reynolds left.I always did like Navy!!
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Sure, why not? After all, UConn is 1-0 vs Notre Dame. From the Great Santini: