IrishAlum1997
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Let me preface this with the fact that this is not necessarily directed at any poster in particular, I don't necessarily look at who types each post so much as the content within each post. That said.......
This is a Notre Dame message and OPINION board.
98% of the active posters on this site are passionate about Notre Dame football. Whether as an alum, a family connection, or as a 'subway alum,' we are all OBSESSED with the success and failure of the team of Our Lady. National Signing Day is in the conversation with wedding anniversaries and our children's birthdays for most important holiday, and the first weekend in September? FUGGIDABBOUDDIT.
Facts are facts. We have had a mediocre football program CONSISTENTLY for the last 15 years, and 19 of the last 25. And posters here are telling us to be PATIENT? PATIENT?!!! What am I waiting for? To be able to braid the hair that has started growing in my ears?
As some have pointed out, yes, upsets have been plentiful this season, and are a regular part of the landscape of college football. They are a part of what makes college football great. I was fired up to see Iowa knocked off by a gritty Northwestern team in Iowa City, and was shouting to the rooftops when Appy State knocked off the Skunkbears in Ann Arbor (oh yeah, Toledo too).
No one here is so pretentious to think we should "win them all." We ARE ND, and getting knocked off by a team that we should wipe the floor with should and will happen. We slipped up against Stanford in '92. We had our eyes on a Florida State rematch a week early against a BC team we humiliated the year before in '93.
But can you ignore the number of humiliating losses since? BC and MSU since '94? BYU twice? Syracuse, Navy, Georgia Tech by 30, shutouts by FSU, scUM, USC. Being non-competitive in every bowl game from the '95 Fiesta Bowl through the '07 Sugar Bowl, with the exception of the '96 Orange.
How do you expect others to react? To sit on their hands and say nothing? Be patient, the recruits are coming. We're still young (3 years later). I said we were like the Boston Red Sox in a previous post, but it's been more like the Chicago Cubs. A historic program with rich tradition and a stadium people want to enter once in their lifetimes, but an eternity between championships, and an emerging sense that people are just starting to feel sorry for us. It's embarrassing.
I don't want Charlie gone. I hope he is the Frank Beamer exception to the rule, and has this program on the right track. Our polarizing television contract will forever perpetuate our us-against-the-world mentality, and I can't wait to see this ship turned around. But get off your high horse in condemning your fellow posters for being upset and vociferous in their comments for a team they (and I) are emotionally invested in. Lay off the fat jokes, and don't make fun of any players or family members. I have to frickin' sing 'Hail to the Victors' at my in-laws over Christmas break because our defense underachieved against a team that won't be going bowling this year. Make no bones about it, this is a place to vent, and I'm not hatin' on anyone and their opinions. Everything and everyone is fair game.
When you get home from a crappy day at the office you want to bitch to your wife about all that is wrong with your job. She thinks that you are crazy and that you should be grateful to be employed, but she loves you and supports you and tells you you're right and that you need to do what makes you happy. We are all married to Notre Dame, and after a horrible loss we want to come "home" and bitch. If you don't want to hear it, get a divorce or stay in the Lep Lounge. NONE of us have the answers, but we have the right to share our feelings here. Chill out and love one another.
Notre Dame, til death do us part.
This is a Notre Dame message and OPINION board.
98% of the active posters on this site are passionate about Notre Dame football. Whether as an alum, a family connection, or as a 'subway alum,' we are all OBSESSED with the success and failure of the team of Our Lady. National Signing Day is in the conversation with wedding anniversaries and our children's birthdays for most important holiday, and the first weekend in September? FUGGIDABBOUDDIT.
Facts are facts. We have had a mediocre football program CONSISTENTLY for the last 15 years, and 19 of the last 25. And posters here are telling us to be PATIENT? PATIENT?!!! What am I waiting for? To be able to braid the hair that has started growing in my ears?
As some have pointed out, yes, upsets have been plentiful this season, and are a regular part of the landscape of college football. They are a part of what makes college football great. I was fired up to see Iowa knocked off by a gritty Northwestern team in Iowa City, and was shouting to the rooftops when Appy State knocked off the Skunkbears in Ann Arbor (oh yeah, Toledo too).
No one here is so pretentious to think we should "win them all." We ARE ND, and getting knocked off by a team that we should wipe the floor with should and will happen. We slipped up against Stanford in '92. We had our eyes on a Florida State rematch a week early against a BC team we humiliated the year before in '93.
But can you ignore the number of humiliating losses since? BC and MSU since '94? BYU twice? Syracuse, Navy, Georgia Tech by 30, shutouts by FSU, scUM, USC. Being non-competitive in every bowl game from the '95 Fiesta Bowl through the '07 Sugar Bowl, with the exception of the '96 Orange.
How do you expect others to react? To sit on their hands and say nothing? Be patient, the recruits are coming. We're still young (3 years later). I said we were like the Boston Red Sox in a previous post, but it's been more like the Chicago Cubs. A historic program with rich tradition and a stadium people want to enter once in their lifetimes, but an eternity between championships, and an emerging sense that people are just starting to feel sorry for us. It's embarrassing.
I don't want Charlie gone. I hope he is the Frank Beamer exception to the rule, and has this program on the right track. Our polarizing television contract will forever perpetuate our us-against-the-world mentality, and I can't wait to see this ship turned around. But get off your high horse in condemning your fellow posters for being upset and vociferous in their comments for a team they (and I) are emotionally invested in. Lay off the fat jokes, and don't make fun of any players or family members. I have to frickin' sing 'Hail to the Victors' at my in-laws over Christmas break because our defense underachieved against a team that won't be going bowling this year. Make no bones about it, this is a place to vent, and I'm not hatin' on anyone and their opinions. Everything and everyone is fair game.
When you get home from a crappy day at the office you want to bitch to your wife about all that is wrong with your job. She thinks that you are crazy and that you should be grateful to be employed, but she loves you and supports you and tells you you're right and that you need to do what makes you happy. We are all married to Notre Dame, and after a horrible loss we want to come "home" and bitch. If you don't want to hear it, get a divorce or stay in the Lep Lounge. NONE of us have the answers, but we have the right to share our feelings here. Chill out and love one another.
Notre Dame, til death do us part.
