Well.....thankfully, the Michigan game is over. I have listed my customary "Five Things" post below, but I had some difficulty in determining five things I liked about this game. Not surprisingly, I found five things to dislike fairly quickly. The important thing to remember in all of this, I guess, is that this was one game in a long season. While national championship talk now looks silly (even if we win out), ND fans should concentrate on winning one game at a time and trying to get to USC 10-1. On to the review:
Five Things I Liked
1. The defense in the second half: I grant you that UM was playing it a bit conservatively, but the defense held them, basically, to two field goals. Not a bad performance at all.
2. The drive before the end of the first half: spread, no-huddle offense was very successful against the soft zone. Again, this may have been more of a function of UM being up 34-7, but I am looking for positives here.
3. Miller Lite. Very tasty during the game. Much better in bottles than cans.
4. Having your one-year old daughter in a Brady Quinn jersey watch the game with you. Makes it hard to throw anything at the TV.
5. Having picked the PSU game as the one to attend.
5 Things I Didn't Like
1. Brady Quinn under pressure.
2. The woeful offensive line.
3. The defense's inability to stop Michael Hart or Chad Henne in the first half.
4. The feeling of being totally dominated and humiliated.
5. The realization that, at best, it will now be 19 years until we have a chance to compete for the national title. Good times.
Post-script: Early postings on ND blogs seem to suggest Weis is at fault for this performance. I say to those posters, give it a rest. Remember that Weis still had Ty's recruits (and that most of those guys are not very good). It is encouraging that ND has accomplished at much as it has given the state of talent on the team. Perhaps we should give the guy a break. MSU up next. A revenge game and a game coming off a beating. We better respond.
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I'm at a loss for words. All I can do is shake my head in disgust and hope that the MSU game brings us a little bit of salvation.
BTW, I love the title of the post. It's like ND was on the wrong side of the prison daily double: cornholes with a side order of tossed salads for all!
My reaction to the game: disapproving nod
My reaction to Geaux Irish's second comment: disapproving nod
Here's to hoping that we lay a beat down on MSU this weekend!
Football highlight of the week: that Duke held VA Tech to 36 points. I ran 18 miles on Saturday morning. I thought about three main things: 1) why in the world am I doing this? 2) I am hungry and 3) I can't wait to watch the Irish beat Michigan. I should have kept on running. Would have been less painful.
"Listen, you promise me something, okay? Just if you're ever in trouble, don't try to be brave, you just run, okay? Just run away."
You should have taken Jenny's advice, and kept on runnin'.
...and if you hear a voice in your head while you're running say "Run Forrest Run!", that's just me in your DOME!
Keeping the whole cornhole thing going here for a second...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2593068
Have fun in there Maurice!
Oh, and more reinforcements are on the way for the Irish. ND gets Gary Gray (5-star recruit and one of the nation's top cornerbacks) from under Steve Spurrier's nose.
http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=109&p=2&c=569960&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2fnotredame.scout.com%2f2%2f569960.html
Gray was at the UMich game. I'm guessing that after seeing our D's performance that he thinks he'll get a fair amount of playing time when he arrives in South Bend.
He's right. I'm actually less pissed at Wooden for biting on the fake than I am about the other two corner routes for touchdowns. Wooden made an obvious mental error. The other two passes were speed/ability questions.
Nice to see the Irish stick it once again to Spurrier.
brutal football weekend, all in all. Bruuuuuuu-tal. Thanks Big Ben. Thanks.
Absolutely.
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