[September 23, 2006] #12 Notre Dame (2-1) at Michigan State (3-0)

[ACamp1900]

Mark May is such a bitch, just say ND earned it...

 

[Steve]

The Wolverine fans are laughing right now, and nothing else.

Well, this is kind of a parting shot. I won't post here anymore unless you guys win out leading up to the USC game. I won't watch any more of your games since you don't play common opponents anymore (I usually watch for scouting purposes).

Couple of observations though:

Great win, great comeback, great momentum boost, but a bit of reality.

Your defense sucked tonight. Other teams aren't going to give you the game the way MSU did. Your secondary was torched, once again, and your LBs did nothing.
Your OL was horrendous tonight. They should have dominated the entire game against those terrible DL, but they didn't.
No running game, once again.

Unless these problems are fixed, I think Purdue or UCLA will pick you off. Momentum helps, but there are underlying problems. The point is, MSU is not a very good team. If Nd was that good, this game shouldn't have been close. There are way too many holes on this team. There must be corrections or losses will ensue, even with inferior opponents. And this is certainly not good enough for USC.

I think we saw who the true Irish fans were tonight. These are the fans like Svboda who didn't stop believing, people who might have listened to me when I said MSU has a history of choking. Irish fans are a interesting bunch. They're so swayed by emotion.

So adieu, and good luck.

bye

 

[BGIF]

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And how real fans feel about the whinner quitters.
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what part about pointing out when my teams plays bad don't you guys understand? Did I quit? No... Did I say we were playing bad when we were, yes... Since when can't a fan point out the obvious about his team? you guys crack me up...

Were you mentioned?

 

[Bubba]

The Wolverine fans are laughing right now, and nothing else.

Well, this is kind of a parting shot. I won't post here anymore unless you guys win out leading up to the USC game. I won't watch any more of your games since you don't play common opponents anymore (I usually watch for scouting purposes).

Couple of observations though:

Great win, great comeback, great momentum boost, but a bit of reality.

Your defense sucked tonight. Other teams aren't going to give you the game the way MSU did. Your secondary was torched, once again, and your LBs did nothing.
Your OL was horrendous tonight. They should have dominated the entire game against those terrible DL, but they didn't.
No running game, once again.

Unless these problems are fixed, I think Purdue or UCLA will pick you off. Momentum helps, but there are underlying problems. The point is, MSU is not a very good team. If Nd was that good, this game shouldn't have been close. There are way too many holes on this team. There must be corrections or losses will ensue, even with inferior opponents. And this is certainly not good enough for USC.

I think we saw who the true Irish fans were tonight. These are the fans like Svboda who didn't stop believing, people who might have listened to me when I said MSU has a history of choking. Irish fans are a interesting bunch. They're so swayed by emotion.

So adieu, and good luck.

Our first half defense sucked tonight. 6 points in the second half, not so much suckage.

Michigan struggled in the first half as well. Do they suck, too?

You're right, anyone could beat us one any given Saturday. But we didn't give up. My guess is that UM will lose sometime this year....probably to a team they should beat.

Our secondry was tourched, but 2 int's (one for a TD) was nice, wouldn't you say?

Every team has fans who sway....including MSU an dUM. (oops, that was a typing error but it looked good so I'll leave it.) Emotion affects EVERONE. Without exception.

 

[domerfor life]

Victors...yes we do have holes. However, you can't deny that a win like this can build great momentum for the rest of the season. You guys didn't look that great today, until the 4th qtr. Yes are defense was not great, but if you watched that last TD by Caulcrick you know that that TD should have been called back. Did you see Trevor Laws get pulled back? Our defense gave up 6 points and forced 3 turnovers in the 2nd half. Nevertheless, I watched till the end knowing we could still win if we put a solid 30 minutes together. Don't even act like Michigan has never been in this situation before. Michigan is still growing as well. They have not arrived. Anyway, we've played you already....you beat us soundly. Now go troll somebody else's board. For my fellow fans, please tell Charlie to punt the ball sometimes. That 4th&8 call was horrendous. Charlie it's called pooch punt. Try it one day. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BGIF]

Victors...yes we do have holes. However, you can't deny that a win like this can build great momentum for the rest of the season. You guys didn't look that great today, until the 4th qtr. Yes are defense was not great, but if you watched that last TD by Caulcrick you know that that TD should have been called back. Did you see Trevor Laws get pulled back? Our defense gave up 6 points and forced 3 turnovers in the 2nd half. Nevertheless, I watched till the end knowing we could still win if we put a solid 30 minutes together. Don't even act like Michigan has never been in this situation before. Michigan is still growing as well. They have not arrived. Anyway, we've played you already....you beat us soundly. Now go troll somebody else's board. For my fellow fans, please tell Charlie to punt the ball sometimes. That 4th&8 call was horrendous. Charlie it's called pooch punt. Try it one day. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now go troll somebody else's board.

Maisonbleu talks football. I enjoy his chatter. Victor is just a troll. Slicker than most but still a troll.

 

[domerfor life]

I mean.......I wouldn't go so far as to say our secondary got torched. They didn't play well in the 1st half, but they showed up in the 2nd half. So Michigan is all-world now? Whatever.

 

[maison bleu]

Mark May is such a bitch, just say ND earned it...

ND capitalized on Sparty's mistakes. 3 Stanton TOs lead directly to 14 points and sabotages the chance at a FG to make it 40 all.

At the end of the day, it was MSU coughing one up more than it was the Irish taking it away.

 

[Bubba]

ND capitalized on Sparty's mistakes. 3 Stanton TOs lead directly to 14 points and sabotages the chance at a FG to make it 40 all.

At the end of the day, it was MSU coughing one up more than it was the Irish taking it away.

????Maison? Is that you not giving credit where credit is due? YOU are the last one I'd have thought would do that. I'm usually impressed with your input. You could make those same statements about last weeks game with UM.....It was more ND coughing it up more than UM taking it away. I have to say, I'm disappointed with your evaluation.

 

[maison bleu]

????Maison? Is that you not giving credit where credit is due? YOU are the last one I'd have thought would do that. I'm usually impressed with your input. You could make those same statements about last weeks game with UM.....It was more ND coughing it up more than UM taking it away. I have to say, I'm disappointed with your evaluation.

Well, there's no way last week was a route without NDs 5 TOs. M played well and owned the line of scrimage, especially the D. Without all the TOs, though, it's still a game in the 4th Q. M wins by 10 or 14, not 26. Michigan was good, but they were lucky too.

Did you hear Gameday after the game today? They were SO SO SO harsh on Sparty. It's true, though. If you've watched enough MSU football, you know that 3-0 and up 31-14 at the half is exactly when Sparty is most vulnerable. Happened last year too, almost--ND scored 21 unanswered to end regulation.

So I'm not being a hater. ND was good tonight, they were opportunistic. But they were also lucky.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky.

 

[Bubba]

I do like to get, er... I mean be lucky. Well, both actually!!

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

This might sound pre-mature, but I think the offense may have finally gotten rid of its 'jitters' during the 4th quarter.

We'll have to see. We're entering the weaker portion of our schedule, so maybe things will be worked out in time for the USC game. But the offense in the 4th reminded me of the one from last season that everyone came to respect.

The O-Line still needs to get their asses in gear, though.

I'm young, so I havn't seen as much ND football as some of you guys, but this is the best win I've ever seen from our team. Yeah, I was around in the 90s, but I wasn't old enough to really watch/understand/appreciate what was going on.

 

[KMac151993]

I will admit I gave up on the Irish during this game...but in all fairness we shouldn't have won this game....I am happy we did but we didn't deserve it we played sloppy and it took a miracle on two DB's that all you guys wrote off long ago and I gave credit to. We were lucky to come out with a W and we must...MUST get better!

 

[KMac151993]

I know people will jump on me for my doom and gloom but we still gave up 37 pts.....bottom line is that I have always believed we have the talent and never use that as an excuse, I am tired of hearing that....it was all coaching and I saw something I never have from Weis....fire late in the game, thats what I have been looking for and now have found, I will never doubt him or one of his teams again. I wanted to see fire and attitude well he gave me that.

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

I just counted.. I drank 12 diet cokes during that game.

 

[NDgettysburg]

Couple of observations though:

Nothing we didn't already know, man....we might be happy with the comebac but it doesn't mean we just booked a hotel for the fiesta bowl.

 

[NDgettysburg]

I will admit I gave up on the Irish during this game...but in all fairness we shouldn't have won this game....I am happy we did but we didn't deserve it we played sloppy and it took a miracle on two DB's that all you guys wrote off long ago and I gave credit to. We were lucky to come out with a W and we must...MUST get better!

I see it as 2 games in 1....the first being that they played like crap and allowed the opponent to go up big on them with the 2nd being they finally woke up, took advantage of the turnovers and earned the win. I'll take that over falling apart completely after getting down by a few scores and then letting it turn into a rout.

 

[irish9331]

I will admit I gave up on the Irish during this game...but in all fairness we shouldn't have won this game....I am happy we did but we didn't deserve it we played sloppy and it took a miracle on two DB's that all you guys wrote off long ago and I gave credit to. We were lucky to come out with a W and we must...MUST get better!

You gave up on the team during the game....nah really? Not like we haven't seen that before!