Recent content by phillyirish

Netherlands was thoroughly outclassed like I’ve never seen before. This is a team that hasn’t lost in over a year, and when they last did so still held Spain to almost 50-50 in possession. Against Morocco, Netherlands possession (30%) was almost as bad as Paraguay’s (24%) against Germany. Not...

He will probably blow up the World Cup goals record, but that’s about it. A lot easier to score in the World Cup now that it’s an expanded tournament, meaning more games and more importantly, far inferior opposition. At Mbappe’s age, Messi’s already had won 5 Ballon d’ors, Mbappe has yet to win...

Lol 0-1 in the second minute.

Unfortunate performance, especially after jumping to a 3 goal lead. Future is bright at least, most of the starters and contributors will return next year, and back to back insane recruiting classes. Yes I know this is more of a post game post at halftime, but this one is over.

7-4 Irish. 1:25 left in 2nd.

Seeing as our only freshmen this year didn’t see the floor at all, I’m not sure we can count on any of the incoming class to make a big splash.

Maybe for the NYC centric view. But that vernacular is used very common in the Philadelphia area for the Delaware valley.

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined….. with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.” - Abraham Lincoln in his address to the assembly at Lyceum, 1838. I think this holds true...

By the 1860s neither the US, nor major European powers were capable of projecting enough power across the Atlantic to be able to defeat each-other on foreign soil. There was just no capacity to be able to sustain a force of 200k across logistics like that. So a victory on foreign soil was out of...

I’m bright enough to know the difference between then and than.

No idea why this is such a controversial topic that has people making deep personal attacks. These are just opinions and really not that big of a deal. Someone has yet to provide a reasonable argument that Rees is anything above an average OC. The biggest argument so far is that Saban hired...

Kind of an unfair advantage tbh. Drew Pyne was basically Tommy Rees 2.0. It’s not often a coach gets to basically coach themselves on the field.

What has he done to show that he's a good coach? i didnt even say he was terrible, or even bad. Just that he is not a good coach. Left out in my brief comment above: Notre Dame offense in 2022 Rees' last year: 31.8 ppg (42nd) 397 ypg (60th) vs 2023 After Rees leaves 39.2 ppg (7th) and 432.2...

He's not a good coach. Alabama's offense dropped off drastically when he took over in 2023. He turned a bad Browns offense into one of the bottom 3 in the NFL.

I think we all got PTSD from high profile receivers underperforming here. But given that it’s OSU, identified by Hartline the best WR mind in the country, and the fact that these guys were sitting behind the best WR corps in the country, I don’t think there is any concern for their lack of...