Recent content by Irish Jacky

QB Tyler Buchner of The Bishop's School in La Jolla, CA, committed to ND today. This is a huge get. He's the no. 2 pro style QB nationally and the No. 2 California recruit in the 2021 class. He had offers from EVERYBODY following his freshman year based on his performance in camps. Man are...

Michigan getting its ass kicked by a 7-5 Kansas State. How the hell did we lose to these scumbags? Two words: Devin Gardener. He's not playing tonight. Still, it's really wonderful to see them getting humiliated.

I hope we win out and finish 10-2 (probability under 25%, I think). I pray, however, we do NOT sneak into a BCS bowl game. This is because one bowl game ***-raping is horrendous but bowl game *** rapes in successive years would be crushing. Sneaking into a BCS bowl game this year through the...

Anybody know anything about Nix's face mask this year? That thing looks positively primitive, like something channelling Ray Nitschke and Fred Flintstone. We're talking Shaka Zulu here. I've never seen another like it. Did he design it himself? It's da bomb. Hey, it's Tuesday and I'm just...

Ohio State's Urban Meyer on one of his players: "He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words." ___________________________________________ Why do Tennessee fans wear orange? So they can dress that way for the...

This whole episode smells rotten. The off-camera interview has not reduced my suspicion a bit. Te'o has admitted lying about the "girlfriend": he may or may not have perpetrated the hoax but he definitely perpetuated it. I was always uncomfortable with this cloyingly over-sentimental public...

The second half was a 14-14 tie, and you know it wasn't because Saban told his team to go easy on us. Just sayin', is all. The true test of Kelly's ability will be how he guides the team out of this disaster and into the 2013 season. I have every confidence he'll get the job done.

Love the line about 'Bama complaining about the little blue nun voter in '73!!! GO IRISH! The Notre Dame Fight Song by Little Blue Nuns - YouTube

We've been criticized this year by some talking head fools for winning ugly and winning narrowly. Ironically, I think our close wins (Purdue, UM, BYU, Stanford, Pitt) will prove one of our biggest strengths against 'Bama. They had only two close games they won: LSU and GA. In fact, they...

I am focused on ND winning the 2012 College Football National Championship. The Heisman? I'm really luke warm on this. Would I prefer that Manti win it? Yes. Will I be outraged if he doesn't? No. The Heisman has nothing to do with ND winning the 2012 College Football National...

I've seen no link on und.com to a post-BC game press conference by Coach Kelly. Was there one? If not, does anybody know why not? Just curious is all.

Can't help comparing Mariota, Manziel and Golson through the 10th week. I rank them 1) Mariota, 2) Johnny Football, 3) Everett. Each of them is a great player with virtually unlimited upward potential. Nevertheless, I go with Mariota for his cool efficiency and field vision. Johnny...

Down 20-0 in first quarter. This may be the big break we need!

I think one take-away from last night's win is our conditioning advantage. Once again, we owned the fourth quarter, just as we did against OU last week. The differential was even more obvious during the overtime periods. We were flat out in better shape than Pitt. Just as an example...

Bob Williams, ND's quarterback in the 1957 victory over OU, came from Wilkes-Barre, PA. He played at Wilkes-Barre's G.A.R. High School. Know who else came from Wilkes-Barre, PA? Raghib "Rocket" Ismail. Rocket played at Wilkes-Barre's Meyers High School. Rocket's high school coach was Micky...