'10 IL QB Tommy Rees (Notre Dame Man)

[TheTurningPoint]

I pretty much never dream about ND, but...

No joke I had a dream last night that Rees threw a 65 yard TD pass to DaVonte Neal against Alabama. Nothing about that play makes any sense. I gotta take a couple days off from this site.

You should ban yourself for a week haha.

 

[ulukinatme]

You were dreaming in an alternate reality from 2012 in which Rees started the entire season. In said he reality, he either didn't assault the police officer, or he was fast enough to out run the officer and was never caught. There were multiple injuries in the receiving corps due to uncalled targeting penalties from Bama, and so Neal was pressed into action. The 65-yard TD was actually a game-winner on a simple bubble screen. Daniel Smith was never injured in this reality, and provided the true heroics on the play, providing three separate crushing blocks as the lead blocker on the bubble screen, even though everyone knew his only value was as a blocker and should have seen it coming.

Also, as Tommy was the starter from game one in Dublin, Golson decided to transfer mid-season. He would go on to start at QB for Alabama in the year 2014 after sitting out a year, winning the job over Blake Sims. Jacob Coker left FSU and transferred to Cincinnati to play for the Bearcats, since the Bama depth chart was pretty solid with the addition of Golson.

Gunner Kiel saw extensive garbage-time action in 2012 as a true freshman throughout the 12-0 campaign in the absence of Golson. This game experience was enough for Gunner to beat out Tommy for the starting QB job the next year in fall camp. Gunner would then lead ND to a second consecutive undefeated season and a national championship victory over Jameis Winston and FSU in a shootout to conclude the 2013 season.

With Golson now at the helm for Bama in '14, Gunner back at the helm as a junior in South Bend, and Jacob Coker leading the Cincy Bearcats, all three teams would make the playoffs.

Gunner and the Irish would first knock off Brian Kelly's former school, only to meet Golson and his Bama squad in the national championship. Tune in next time to find out what happens at the thrilling conclusion of IE's Alternate Reality Football.

(Work is SUPER slow today)

The question is...if Golson didn't have to sit out the 2013 season after transferring to Alabama, would he have been suspended the year for academics?

 

[IrishLion]

The question is...if Golson didn't have to sit out the 2013 season after transferring to Alabama, would he have been suspended the year for academics?

LOL. Suspended at Bama for academics?

Not even this alternate reality is THAT crazy.

 

[dshans]

I pretty much never dream about ND, but...

No joke I had a dream last night that Rees threw a 65 yard TD pass to DaVonte Neal against Alabama. Nothing about that play makes any sense. I gotta take a couple days off from this site.

Knock off on the jalapeño poppers after 10 PM. If necessary, remember to drink a tall glass of (whole) milk and inhale a slice of bread or two before collapsing.

 

[ulukinatme]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Many thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/t_rees11">@t_rees11</a> for being ridiculously good as our guest former player analyst on the ND Postgame Show. Watch for the podcast Mon</p>— Jack Nolan (@NDJackNolan) <a href="https://twitter.com/NDJackNolan/status/518600973124898816">October 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/tdbtweet">@tdbtweet</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/t_rees11">@t_rees11</a> Would love to make Tommy a regular, but I think he has bigger fish to fry.</p>— Jack Nolan (@NDJackNolan) <a href="https://twitter.com/NDJackNolan/status/518611497359245312">October 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Yeah he was really good on the radio.

 

[BGIF]

Jack Nolan @NDJackNolan

.@tdbtweet @t_rees11 Would love to make Tommy a regular, but I think he has bigger fish to fry.
10:59 PM - 4 Oct 2014

Damn right!

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Yeah Tommy is busy working at Long John Silver's

 

[ulukinatme]

Damn, perspective and shit. We're gonna have our hands full with Louisville and USC to finish out the year. Could easily go 9-4 or worse again the way we're playing.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I only had 13 turnovers last year. Just sayin.... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/falseprophets?src=hash">#falseprophets</a></p>— Reesus (@reesus1842) <a href="https://twitter.com/reesus1842/status/533810901816586240">November 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[BGIF]

Damn, perspective and shit. We're gonna have our hands full with Louisville and USC to finish out the year. Could easily go 8-5 again the way we're playing.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I only had 13 turnovers last year. Just sayin.... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/falseprophets?src=hash">#falseprophets</a></p>— Reesus (@reesus1842) <a href="https://twitter.com/reesus1842/status/533810901816586240">November 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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It's interesting reading posts from people who trashed Rees ball security last year now commenting on how much worse Golson is. Two week ago Golson had the lowest INT rate in ND history.

Similarly two weeks ago Brinzda had the highest percentage accuracy in ND history. Now he's only second, again behind Carney but he's soooooo bad ND should be using a walk-on kicker.

As for your 8-5 where do you see the 8th win? A mid-December bowl?

 

[ulukinatme]

It's interesting reading posts from people who trashed Rees ball security last year now commenting on how much worse Golson is. Two week ago Golson had the lowest INT rate in ND history.

Similarly two weeks ago Brinzda had the highest percentage accuracy in ND history. Now he's only second, again behind Carney but he's soooooo bad ND should be using a walk-on kicker.

As for your 8-5 where do you see the 8th win? A mid-December bowl?

That's the thing...some posters adamantly destroyed Rees for this turnovers last season, and some of those same posters are not crediting Golson for his. "It's on the offense" or "It's a team game" etc, etc. Such hypocrisy. Very bullshit. I find it amusing though.

Not sure on the 8th win. If we lose the next two then we'd probably get a more favorable bowl match up. I'm hoping that Day's injury isn't too serious and he can come back in a few weeks. Otherwise, we're pretty banged up on defense right now (again). Maybe the team pulls together and we can play at a high level against USC and/or Louisville, but we're on a bad, bad skid right now. It would really suck to go 1-5 in our last half of our season after such a good start.

 

[Irish2155]

Damn, perspective and shit. We're gonna have our hands full with Louisville and USC to finish out the year. Could easily go 9-4 or worse again the way we're playing.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I only had 13 turnovers last year. Just sayin.... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/falseprophets?src=hash">#falseprophets</a></p>— Reesus (@reesus1842) <a href="https://twitter.com/reesus1842/status/533810901816586240">November 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Appears he's calling out EG on twitter. Even though his throw was a change up and feet like mud his turnovers never saw EG's clip. Might have been the difference tonight...although we got are fare share of turnovers.

 

[BGIF]

That's the thing...some posters adamantly destroyed Rees for this turnovers last season, and some of those same posters are not crediting Golson for his. "It's on the offense" or "It's a team game" etc, etc. Such hypocrisy. Very bullshit. I find it amusing though.

Not sure on the 8th win. If we lose the next two then we'd probably get a more favorable bowl match up. I'm hoping that Day's injury isn't too serious and he can come back in a few weeks. Otherwise, we're pretty banged up on defense right now (again). Maybe the team pulls together and we can play at a high level against USC and/or Louisville, but we're on a bad, bad skid right now. It would really suck to go 1-5 in our last half of our season after such a good start.

Last week Sagarin had us as a dog in the last two games. He doesn't figure in injuries just "Ws", "Ls", and score but if Day and Riggs aren't 100% both games should be tough to watch. The defense is too young and too thin.

Now if the offense doesn't turn the ball over ...

 

[Irish2155]

Last week Sagarin had us as a dog in the last two games. He doesn't figure in injuries just "Ws", "Ls", and score but if Day and Riggs aren't 100% both games should be tough to watch. The defense is too young and too thin.

Now if the offense doesn't turn the ball over ...

It is kind of simple to me. EG has and will again play for a championship.

Tommy won nine games, and that is pretty good.

 

[GATTACA!]

Appears he's calling out EG on twitter. Even though his throw was a change up and feet like mud his turnovers never saw EG's clip. Might have been the difference tonight...although we got are fare share of turnovers.

Thats not a real account

 

[Irish2155]

Thats not a real account

Oh, thanks....I knew Tommy was above that.

 

[Crazy Balki]

It is kind of simple to me. EG has and will again play for a championship.

Tommy won nine games, and that is pretty good.

If only it were that simple. Golson has way more talent, so his issues with the ball are that much more frustrating. Tommy had a very low ceiling, so what he did was about where he was expected to do. Golson doesn't have that excuse. All that training with George Whitfield doesn't seem to have done a lick of sh*t to help him. He continues to digress.

 

[BGIF]

It is kind of simple to me. EG has and will again play for a championship.

Tommy won nine games, and that is pretty good.

My post that you partially quoted was in response to uluk's post about 8 wins THIS season.

What has that got to do with your comment that EG play again for a championship?

No one was discussing a championship. We were trying to figure out where the 8th win of this season is.

 

[Irish2155]

My post that you partially quoted was in response to uluk's post about 8 wins THIS season.

What has that got to do with your comment that EG play again for a championship?

No one was discussing a championship. We were trying to figure out where the 8th win of this season is.

The 8th win? Louisville, this sounds crazy but wish we were on the road.

 

[ulukinatme]

Louisville won't be a walk in the park. Petrino is a good coach, and although they replaced a lot of key cogs this season, they're not a bad team. They're better than Northwestern.

 

[kmoose]

Louisville won't be a walk in the park. Petrino is a good coach, and although they replaced a lot of key cogs this season, they're not a bad team. They're better than Northwestern.

I am not suggesting that the Louisville game will be easy. But, in reference to Louisville being better than Northwestern. ND is also better than the team that played Northwestern yesterday. So the question becomes........... how MUCH better are we than the team that played yesterday?

 

[yankeeND]

I am not suggesting that the Louisville game will be easy. But, in reference to Louisville being better than Northwestern. ND is also better than the team that played Northwestern yesterday. So the question becomes........... how MUCH better are we than the team that played yesterday?

Yeah, as an ND fan it does not matter who we play most of the time. It is almost always a closer game than it should be. I would like that trend to stop starting next week and regardless of who we are playing I would like to see us play a clean game. Missing short field goals, not getting the snap down, fumbles, tipped passes off of helmets getting intercepted. I mean, this nonsense needs to stop. Louisville is a pretty good team, but if we cut the 9 turnovers over the last two weeks down to 3, which is 1.5 per game, we would probably be 9-1 right now. This is nothing new, turnovers equal losses and right now we are two time losers to the turnover bug. By the way, a kid on Lousville is leading the nation in int's with 13. Will be a great test to not add to his total.

 

[TDHeysus]

Louisville won't be a walk in the park. Petrino is a good coach, and although they replaced a lot of key cogs this season, they're not a bad team. They're better than Northwestern.

Louisville has a very good defense; this will put pressure on Golson and golson doesn't handle pressure on the field well, and doesn't handle pressure well from a mental aspect either. Its a double win for Louisville, and I predict a 4 turnover game for golson. The Louisville defense are going to tee-off on Golson, and he will fold like a bad lawnchair when a fat guy sits on it.

 

[GBdomer]

GA over at Northwestern now

 

[GoldenDomer]

GA over at Northwestern now

Good news for him!!!

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Needs to be a GA for Notre Dame


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[ulukinatme]

I could see why he would take a job at Northwestern, it's 45 minutes from his old hometown while South Bend is 2 1/2 hours away. He should do well.

 

[irishfan]

Needs to be a GA for Notre Dame


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Yep. I can just Golson throwing picks and BK turning and screaming at Rees...

 

[Grahambo]

GA over at Northwestern now

He's gonna turn into a great coach assuming he goes all in for it.

 

[CurtisCandy]

As much as it was sometimes frustrating when Tommy was our QB, his lack of certain physical skills certainly isn't his fault, and I think he definitely made the most out of what he had to work with.

I always liked that kid a lot, and I hope he finds huge success in the game!... Even when he got in trouble, to me, it was a perfect example of "boys will be boys" and nothing more sinister than that.

Besides, that episode is what taught us that Carlo had "people"... Who woulda known?!